Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wolverine walks across the snow in 2018 near the Toolik Field Station on Alaska's North Slope. (Photo by Peter Mather/Provided ...

The state program employs helicopters and small planes to shoot black and brown bears of any age in a large area of southwestern Alaska. Two conservation groups have sued to stop it. By John S.W.

Alaska wildlife agents can resume shooting and killing black and brown bears — including from helicopters — as part of a plan to help recover a caribou herd that was once an important source of food ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO: Grizzly bears search for migrating salmon to help fatten up for the winter hibernation, at Brooks Falls in Katmai ...

First in a three-part series. This story was produced with support from the Pulitzer Center. In the past four springs, state employees in small planes and a helicopter have combed the skies of ...

Several caribou herds in Alaska's Arctic are on the decline. That now includes the Porcupine herd, which is the largest. Biologists say the reasons for the downward trends are hard to pin down. Alaska ...

NPR's Ailsa Chang talks with Max Graham, a writer for High Country News, about Alaska's declining caribou population, and the state's plan to save them by shooting predators like grizzlies and wolves.

Juneau, Alaska — Conservation groups sued Monday over a state program in Alaska that authorizes killing brown and black bears as a way to increase the size of a once-significant caribou herd in the ...

Lawsuit says 186 bears shot dead from helicopters since 2023 Environmentalists say disease, lack of food threaten caribou State game officials deny they are putting bears in peril Nov 10 (Reuters) - ...