Wildlife

Vancouver, British Columbia-based Constantine Metal Resources Ltd. has applied to expand exploration near the Alaska Chilkat Bald Eagle Preserve in Haines.

But in some cases, like the Kensington Mine, it’s too late.

One animal’s dinner plans caused a car crash in Ketchikan.

In the world of animal rights, one activist compares it to the fall of the Berlin Wall. The original plan called for phasing out elephants’ role in the circus by 2018.

The organizers are calling it the “largest airlift of lions in history.” The animals were rescued from circuses after Colombia and Peru banned the use of wild animals in circuses.

In the Northwest Arctic, caribou hunting has been contentious for years. Alaska’s largest herd continues to decline while tensions have emerged between rural subsistence users and outside hunters.