A new Parks Canada study that shows cars, trucks and trains kill more than 20 black bears a year in mountain national parks has wildlife advocates calling for measures to reduce the carnage.
The study by mountain parks carnivore specialist Mike Gibeau and ecosystem technician Barbara Bertch says 94 per cent of the 477 black bear [...]

A coyote-killing competition in Ottawa has animal welfare groups up in arms.
The "Great Coyote Cull Contest" gives participants a chance to win a new shotgun in a draw if they provide proof of their kills.
The competition is sponsored by the Osgoode Township Fish, Game and Conservation Club in the city's rural southern outskirts. It was [...]

A couple in central Alberta is keeping an injured moose and its calf fed through the winter with donated fruits and vegetables.
Mike and Christine Haustein, who own an acreage in the Shady Nook district just outside Red Deer, Alta., have become accustomed to feeding passing moose with apples from their trees in the fall.
About three [...]

SYDNEY, Australia – Two stars of the reality TV show "I'm a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here" have been charged with animal cruelty after allegedly killing and cooking a rat to eat during filming.
Chef Gino D'Acampo who won the viewer-feedback contest series, and actor Stuart Manning were charged after animal welfare activists lodged [...]

Days after a mentally handicapped man fell into Bern's bear park and was attacked, visitors said they regretted that police had to shoot the bear.
A 25-year-old man suffered non life-threatening injuries on Saturday after he was mauled by Finn, a four-year-old European brown bear. Police shot and seriously wounded the animal as they sought to [...]

A wayward deer that wandered through downtown Toronto before stopping to rest near a busy intersection has been stunned and captured.
The doe, believed to be about two years old, was resting in a grassy area fringed with shrubs outside a building at 123 Edward St., near University Avenue and Dundas Street West on Tuesday morning.
It [...]

CHURCHILL, Man. – Most trick-or-treaters are well-versed in Halloween safety: travel in groups, wear colourful clothing and only stop at brightly lit homes.
The drill is slightly different, however, for kids in a remote Manitoba town on Hudson Bay.
Youngsters in Churchill are warned not to dress in furry white costumes, to steer clear of baited traps [...]

OTTAWA — Canada will sign a new agreement on Friday with the governments of Greenland and Nunavut to protect polar bear populations in their overlapping regions.
Environment Minister Jim Prentice is travelling to Greenland for the day to participate in a signing ceremony.
Conservation groups have said they expect the agreement to be similar to other [...]

EDMONTON — A five-year grizzly bear population study has been completed and it estimates there are 581 grizzlies in Alberta from south of Grande Prairie to the Montana border.
The estimate, however, does not include most of Jasper and Banff National Parks, the Swan Hills area and northwestern Alberta, including the Chinchaga area.
The new population data [...]

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge says gray wolf hunts in Montana and Idaho can go on, denying a request by environmentalists and animal welfare groups to stop the first organized wolf hunts in the lower 48 states in decades.
U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy said Wednesday that plans to kill about 20% of the [...]