Animal rights activists are targeting the Genoa Township Board of Trustee's Monday meeting to protest what they contend is a planned "swan massacre." Noting that the birds — an invasive species in ...

LIVINGSTON COUNTY, MI-- A recent Genoa Township resolution has sparked controversy with animal rights activists concerned for the area’s mute swans. The Department of National Resources classifies ...

Alfie the swan was set to be euthanized after officials deemed him unsafe, as several Jet Ski owners complained about his aggressive behavior during interactions. Alfie's fate was sealed, or so it ...

Mute swans have jumped from about 1,500 in 2022 to 12,000+ and threaten Delta wetlands. A bill would let hunters and landowners shoot them; it passed the Assembly and awaits the Senate, drawing animal ...

Mute swans in Racine, Kenosha and Waukesha counties have a chance at a reprieve from Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources efforts to eradicate the non-native birds. The state's Natural Resources ...

Genoa Township residents Steve and Laura Wildman love watching the birds in their backyard. The couple lives on Lake Chemung and is visited by many creatures, including a breeding pair of mute swans ...

Some residents in a small Ocean County neighborhood are rallying together to stop the government from trapping and killing a swan that has been deemed overly aggressive by the United States Department ...

FITCHBURG — The swan found dead in Coggshall Park on Aug. 4, less than a week after being introduced to Mirror Lake, passed away from peracute sepsis, according to the autopsy report prepared last ...

The introduction of an invasive species is usually unintentional: trekked in the treads of a hiking boot, stuck on the bottom of a boat, or a pet that escapes into the wild. But it doesn't take long ...