A huge population drop prompted calls to cancel all wolf hunting and trapping in the area. Despite this, Fish and Game and the U.S. Forest Service are allowing nine wolves to be killed.
Wildlife
Garbage bear season is in full swing in Ketchikan
More than a few Ketchikan residents have woken to the sound of a garbage can lid banging or a can tipping over, quite aware that it’s probably a bear looking for a free meal.
Fur seal numbers boom on Aleutians’ remote Bogoslof Island
Northern fur seals have been declining for decades in their stronghold on St. Paul Island in Alaska’s Pribilof Islands, but their numbers are taking off a couple hundred miles to the south.
Mysterious whale deaths spike in the Gulf, prompts investigation
Thirty large dead whales have been observed floating or washed ashore in coastal Alaska since May. That’s over three times the average for Alaska waters.
The World’s Most Trafficked Mammal Is One You May Never Have Heard Of
The pangolin, a shy, scaly animal resembling an anteater, is being hunted into extinction, conservationists say. New efforts are underway to protect this exotic creature.
Dead herring, poison mussels found on Unalaska shorelines
Scientists have been receiving reports of dead and dying whales, birds and the small fish known as sand lance in the Aleutian Islands.