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Wednesday, January 09, 2013  A drug raid in Harlingen ended with four arrests but also an unusual discovery: the rotting body of a large sea turtle.

Saturday, November 24, 2012  A wetlands restoration projects could bring both birds and tourists to Tio Cano Lake just north of La Feria.

Friday, September 28, 2012  Paramedics rushed several members of a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service fire crew to a local hospital after being attacked by bees.

Thursday, June 14, 2012  The endangered whooping cranes that winter on the Texas Gulf Coast survived a historic drought and their numbers have risen.

Monday, November 14, 2011  Border Patrol agents made an unusual and exotic discovery in the rural Cameron County community of La Paloma.

Tuesday, August 30, 2011  Two La Feria residents are in custody for allegedly selling jaguar skins smuggled into the United States from Mexico.

Tuesday, April 05, 2011  Biologists at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge are excited by a documented sighting of a male moutain lion a the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.

Monday, February 08, 2010  This Friday evening, The Nature Report's Richard Moore will host the inaugural Ocelot Gala and the annual Ocelot Festival on Saturday.

Wednesday, January 27, 2010  Wildlife officials say the world's only remaining natural flock of endangered whooping cranes could be at risk of another winter die-off.

Wednesday, June 17, 2009  The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service is convert hundreds of abandoned oil and gas drilling sites into habitat for wildlife. -

Monday, March 23, 2009  Wildlife managers are worried that some of the whooping cranes wintering in Texas may be too weak and malnourished to successfully make their return to Canada.