Goats Expelled From Virgin Islands Park
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CHARLOTTE AMALIE, U.S. Virgin Islands - Chewing exotic flowers and common weeds, the indiscriminate eating habits of free-roaming goats have earned them expulsion from a U.S...
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Science & environment: Operation underway to halt a feared invasion of rats from destroying important seabird breeding station
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San Franciscoâs Board of Supervisors has banned the feeding of a tourist attraction.
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By Mary Lane Gallagher, The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Wash.  Sep. 14--Dogs will be able to run free at Little Squalicum Park after all.   After yelps of protest from dog owners, city officials have dropped a proposal to leash dogs at the Birchwood neighborhood bluff-side park.
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Tourists evacuated two small islands off the coast of Puerto Rico on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Chris gained strength in the eastern Caribbean and was expected to become the first hurricane of the Atlantic season.
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STOCKHOLM, Sweden - Vandals tried to set fire to a giant straw goat in central Sweden but failed to burn down the traditional Christmas monument, which has been soaked with flame-resistant chemicals, officials said Friday.
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Virginia Zoo officials on Monday began trimming the landscaping around a new red panda exhibit after the animal escaped for the second time in less than a month.
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AUSTIN, Minn. - A goat on the lam shrugged off a shot from a stun gun, but couldn't get past the Sandman...
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Birds on the remote island of St Kilda are dying after eating or getting caught up in discarded fishing gear.
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The Florida Keys, already dealing with invasive exotics from melaleuca to iguanas, have added another to the list of unwanted newcomers: the African Gambian pouch rat.
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A remote Scottish island has come under growing pressure to end a controversial annual cull of hedgehogs, and ferry them to the mainland instead.
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VICTORIA, British Columbia -- Four people, dozens of dogs and cats, 11 porpoises and a horse have died from a rare tropical fungus since it was detected on Vancouver Island in 1999, a study has concluded.
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HELENA, Mont. - Facing a fence festooned with bras, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks decided letting it all hang out was a bit too much...
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By ERYL CRUMP  COUNTRYSIDE bosses last night accused quadbike-riding cockle fishermen of damaging an internationally important nature reserve.   Countryside Council of Wales (CCW) officials said the cockle beds at Traeth Lafan, on the Menai Strait, near Bangor, should be closed.
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A decomposing whale washed up yesterday near Scotch Beach. Reports indicate the whale is baleen, using plates along its upper jaw to strain food from water, said Scott Comings, director of Block Island programs for The Nature Conservancy.
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PROVO, S.D. - The Humane Society of the Black Hills removed 150-200 dogs from the rural residence of an elderly woman at Provo in southwest South Dakota.
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The carcasses of three bottlenose dolphins Â including a calf Â were found dumped near a holding pen in the Solomon Islands where controversial exports of the mammals were planned. The exporting company on Wednesday denied any knowledge.