conservation

Hear from the staff that grow and package thousands of seedlings each day.

MU Extension and the Department of Conservation are enlisting landowners to plant and care for seedlings

The Missouri Department of Conservation seeks to know where deer are killed during hunting season this year as they added to a chronic wasting disease management zone in Boone County.

Dr. Lúcia Lohmann is a world-renowned botanist. She’s coming back to her second home, St. Louis, to tackle the climate crisis and lead a community institution as the Missouri Botanical Garden’s first woman president.

American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them into preserved meatballs and feed them to their babies. The St. Louis Zoo is working to save the threatened beetle.

Seven illegally poached geese carcasses were reported Sept. 15 by several members of the public, according to a news release from the Missouri Department of Conservation.

A bald eagle is slowly recovering from surgeries after it was shot in Missouri.

Jason Sumners will be the next director of the Missouri Department of Conservation.

It’s Our Wild Nature is working on restoring their land by the Hinkson Creek River to its natural, pre-colonial state.

The once dominant Missouri fur industry has been declining due to shifting attitudes around the use of fur and increased trade tariffs. Missouri Business Alert’s Skyler Rossi has the story of how this enduring market is changing.