Tag: Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Two nonprofit conservationist groups on Wednesday announced that an ocelot killed in Hidalgo County in 2021 has resulted in some positive news for the cat that is endangered in Texas.

The Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission is soliciting public comment on a proposed land swap involving SpaceX, approximately 477 acres south of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Bahia Grande Unit, and approximately 43 acres of Boca Chica State Park.

Federal wildlife officials are seeking the public’s input on a proposal that would reintroduce ocelots into parts of their historic native range where they haven’t been seen in decades.

George “Georgie” Garcia, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service visitor center manager at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, will give a talk at the South Texas Ecotourism Center on April 6 beginning at 5:30 p.m. in the STEC multipurpose room.

A Cameron County man accused of dragging and killing an alligator out of the Laguna Atascosa Wildlife Refuge remains jailed at a Cameron County facility.

Two more ocelots have been spotted at the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge.

New tracts of land were added to two national wildlife refuges in the Rio Grande Valley, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officials report. At Laguna...

HARLINGEN — So you want to restore your 3,661-acre farm back to its former days as thorn scrub wilderness. It isn’t going to happen in...

HARLINGEN — Additional “fee-free days” have been added for 2022 at both national parks and wildlife refuges to encourage folks who may have been...

HARLINGEN — Rio Grande Valley wildlife refuges have added nearly 6,500 new acres of habitat by buying up private lands adjacent to the existing...