Alaska’s new wildlife action plan, in draft form, identifies 362 vertebrates as being of “greatest conservation need,” a number that includes 188 bird species, 101 fish species, 43 ...

FILE - In this undated photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an airplane flies over caribou from the Porcupine Caribou Herd on the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge ...

By 2015, the first herd of 130 bison were transported by plane to Shageluk, Alaska, and successfully released into the wild. A year later, new calves were born.

A polar bear sow and two cubs are seen on the Beaufort Sea coast in this undated handout photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Alaska Image Library on December 21, 2005.

The U.S. Interior Department said on Wednesday a congressionally mandated oil and gas drilling lease auction in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge received no bids from energy companies.

If one animal encapsulates Alaska’s iconic wildlife, it’s the brown bear. The highest density of them in North America can be found on Admiralty Island, just 15 miles southwest of Juneau.

Conservation Rats Are One of Alaska’s Worst Invasive Species. Centuries Later, Wildlife Managers Are Working to Eradicate Them A wrecked boat first brought rats to Alaska in the 1780s. Now wildlife ...

The program distributes money to states to use on conservation projects that are designed in accordance with wildlife action plans. For Alaska, the most recent grant funding was about $2.76 million.

Alaska, like other states around the nation, is compiling a 10-year plan to guide conservation of sometimes vulnerable wildlife populations. Alaska’s State Wildlife Action Plan, which is in ...