I rubbed the dog’s soft neck. He pushed his head into me as his silk-like fur slid through my fingers. This was nothing new for Evan ― he gets pets and scratches all the time. But I hadn’t touched a dog in 19 years. Petting Evan made me emotional.
A UNESCO Natural Heritage Site has been saved from a rabbit and rat rampage, and 8 years after being declared free of invasives, the island is looking like its old self again.
It would have been easy for Eric Ste Marie to mistake the bobbing brown head in the Detroit River to be a muskrat, but curiosity drove him to chase it. It turns out, it was the first “straight-up river otter” to be seen in the Detroit River in over 100 years.
In two years, Iceland will officially hang up its harpoon. The country, one of only three in the world that allows commercial whaling, will end the controversial practice when current quotas expire.
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