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Brown pelicans that were previously found injured along the coast have been released after a full recovery.

Brown pelicans that were previously found injured along the coast have been released after a full recovery. Video aired during Today in LA on June 21, 2022.

A wildfire burns in the Wrightwood area near the Angeles National Forest, growing to about 35 acres. Conan Nolan reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on June 11, 2022.

A San Pedro wildlife center is being inundated with sick and injured Brown Pelicans, with more than 55 patients arriving in the past four days and more expected this week, officials said Wednesday.

The impressive 2022 City Nature Challenge results are in: Southern Californians made 18,907 observations.

The Austin Bat Refuge in Texas takes care of “orphaned, injured and displaced bats” and nurses them back to health. “We’re kind of like a little bat hospital,” says Lee Mackenzie, who runs the refuge with his wife Diane Odegard. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Austin to learn more about wild bats and the threats they...

The City Nature Challenge is now open, and community scientists are invited to join the critter-cool project.

A new giraffe calf, born on April 8, is making his debut on Thursday morning at the Los Angeles Zoo. At 6 feet, 7 inches tall, he’s the tallest baby giraffe in the zoo’s history.

In southern Kenya, a group of women called Team Lioness are working to protect wildlife on the Maasai land around Amboseli National Park — and, at the same time, expanding the boundaries of what is expected from Maasai women.
(By NBCLX Contributors Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville)

Costa Mesa police are looking for the people responsible for fatally shooting four ducks at a community park.

Work begins on a bridge over the 101 Freeway northwest of Los Angeles. Annette Arreola reports for the NBC4 News at 11 a.m. on April 22, 2022.

Groundbreaking is scheduled for Friday on what’s billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing — a bridge over a major Southern California highway that will provide more room to roam for mountain lions and other animals hemmed in by urban sprawl.

The annual April 22 holiday is a good reminder not just of how far climate protection measures have come in 52 years, but also of everything the natural world has to offer.

The bottlenose dolphin was found on March 24 on Florida’s Fort Myers Beach with an obvious wound near the right eye, officials say.

Groundbreaking is set for next month on what’s billed as the world’s largest wildlife crossing

The path over the 101 Freeway near Los Angeles is designed to give mountain lions, coyotes, deer, lizards, snakes and other creatures a way to cross one of the region’s busy freeways.

U.S. wildlife officials have reversed their previous finding that a widely used and highly toxic pesticide could jeopardize dozens of plants and animals with extinction.

An injured pygmy sperm whale found on Malibu’s Surfrider Beach had to be euthanized due to its injuries, despite attempts by LA County Lifeguards to rescue the whale.

The big cat was first seen, via a camera placed to document wildlife, on Feb. 12, 2012, and locals have been enamored ever since.

A Bay Area community is saying “no more” to anyone with plans to build in an effort to protect mountain lions.