Michigan Wildlife

Northern Michigan University criminal justice students are learning how to investigate and prevent poaching.

An animal rights group plans to appeal a case to the Michigan Supreme Court, seeking an unlawful imprisonment hearing for six chimpanzees at an Upper Peninsula zoo.

The Association to Rescue Kritters, or ARK, of St. Helen say many of the birds of prey are testing positive for high lead contamination. Officials say it's most likely from eating deer remains or fish with lead fragments left behind from bullets or fishing lures.

It's the first confirmed citing of the rare species in Kalamazoo County since 1975.

This is the first time cougar cubs have been verified since the big cats were hunted out of existence in Michigan in the early 1900s.

A small, dwindling percentage of the population — hunters and anglers — funds a huge chunk of fish and wildlife conservation in Michigan.