A new push for more oil and gas drilling, mining, and logging threatens irreparable damage to irreplaceable habitats.

As the Arctic warms, some birds, like the Pacific black brant, are cutting their migrations short and spending the winter at the refuge. Williams says declining sea ice has made it easier to find ...

It’s home to hundreds of thousands of birds: Pacific black brant, emperor geese, pintails and eiders. This time of year, Izembek is famous as a stopover for migrating birds — a place to rest and ...

“There are five sub colonies for the Black Brant, and some of those colonies are not doing so well.” Black Brant geese can be harvested, but egging is not permitted. These restrictions apply to the ...

Hunkering deeper into the curtain of tall, green grass atop a cut bank, a pair of brant cupped in next. Both dropped. Then a flock of pintails swooped through, followed by a string of cacklers; ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2013 environmental impact statement concluded that constructing a road through the refuge likely would cause significant impacts on the brant and emperor geese.

North Saanich photographer Christy Grinton was surprised to see a few black Brant geese on Jan. 6 while she was at Island View Beach. “At first there were just three or four of them and then came more ...

Brant migrate in swarms, instead of Vs or lines, and behave similarly on land, moving together in tight knots. Brant weigh about 3 pounds, making them closer in stature to mallards than Canada ...

The Biden administration endorsed a land-swap deal Wednesday that could allow a controversial road to be built through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, a vast wild area in southwest Alaska.

Prior agency documents estimated that 98% of the world’s population of Pacific brant rely on the Refuge’s eelgrass beds to stopover and refuel during their long migration to and from Mexico.