Results tagged “wildlife”

In a project between Sonoma State University, the Oakland Zoo, and the San Francisco Zoo, the Western Pond Turtle project released 19 Western Pond Turtles back into the wild this week at an undisclosed location.

Sadly, the answer could be no. SFAppeal has a phenomenal video that highlights the declining bison population of San Francisco. Although only five of them remain in the city today, "the bison recently returned to a new, $1.2 million dollar improved paddock in Golden Gate Park." Which is good news, right? But with the city budget getting slashed to bits, their maintenance could prove hazardous to their survival. Be sure to check out this heart-warming and unique look at the city that many of you, and a few furry fellas, call home.

Going head to head with the Wilderness Act and righteous green folk, Senator Dianne Feinstein reformulated a bill that would allow Drakes Bay Oyster Co., California's largest commercial shellfish farm, to continue farming inside the 1,100-acre land property at the Point Reyes National Seashore. According to the , the popular oyster company "has been battling the National Park Service to extend its business operation beyond a 2012 federal deadline." and "Feinstein's bill would prolong oysterman Kevin Lunny's [Drakes owner] lease for 10 years, even though an Interior Department attorney concluded that any extension of the operation would violate the federal Wilderness Act."

27-year-old Danny Yep of San Francisco must spend two months in a federal prison and then four months in home confinement for selling the endangered Asian Arowana fish (AKA the Asian Boney tongue fish) after a U.S. Fish and Wildlife agent came across his ad on Aquabid. Yep apparently knew the freshwater fish was illegal to sell as well. The fish, it should be noted, is quite spectacular.