Nature Reserves
FRESNO, Calif. - The federal government is considering giving Central California farmers some massive water infrastructure to settle a lawsuit over drainage problems that killed birds and left farmland too salty for crops, according to a draft proposal obtained by The Associated Press.
NEW DELHI - India should protect its elephant population by securing its wildlife reserves, curbing poaching and restricting development in the corridors they use to travel between forested areas, a panel recommended.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal judge on Monday denied the state of Alaska's request for a preliminary injunction to kill wolves, a step it said was needed to protect a caribou herd on an island in the Aleutian chain that is a subsistence food source for rural Alaskans there.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal judge took up the issue Monday of whether the state of Alaska can kill wolves inside a national wildlife refuge to prevent them from eating caribou calves from a herd that supports a Native village.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The state of Alaska will have to wait until at least Monday for permission to proceed with its plans to kill wolves inside a national wildlife refuge in order to protect a caribou herd that supports a Native village.
