First, the bad news: Every nesting season, some snowy plover eggs don't make it to hatching. The threatened birds are listed under the Endange…
One year ago, early in the morning on Valentine’s Day, a group of nine stood huddled around a tank behind the scenes of the main floor at Birc…
It takes a village to balance an ecosystem.
Six endangered snowy plovers were released back into the wild on Aug. 9, more than a month after their eggs were rescued from the edge of a cliff.
On March 9, staff at The Peregrine Fund, a nonprofit that manages the California condor flock in Arizona and Utah, observed a condor showing s…
The Salinas River’s steelhead trout population was healthy enough in the 1950s that not enough hell was raised to stop the construction of the…
If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound? This philosophical musing on perception and reality is of…
Charlie Sammut, founder of the Monterey Zoo, was a Seaside police officer in the early 1980s when he started a pet collection that, he told th…
Few land animals have captivated the Central Coast to the level of the California condor. With at least a 9-foot wingspan, California condors …
A pod of about 25 endangered killer whales, including the population's youngest calf, who are native to the Puget Sound area, was spotted on S…