Monterey County Animals Overview

MONTEREY COUNTY — Monterey Audubon Society has announced the launch of its annual Scholarship Essay Contest, designed to support and inspire young conservationists in the Monterey Bay region.

KING CITY — South Monterey County is set to benefit from additional free mobile spay and neuter clinics in Soledad and King City organized by the SPCA Monterey County.

In more distressing news for monarch butterflies, the annual Western Monarch Count tallied just 9,119 overwintering monarchs, the second lowest count since the tracking began in 1997, the Xerces Society announced on Jan. 30. It’s a steep decline from the…

IF YOU HAVE tried to bake a cake recently, you might have had a hard time finding eggs. The empty shelves are a sign of the devastating impact of avian influenza, H5N1 or HPAI, on commercial poultry flocks in California.The …

MONTEREY COUNTY — A team from SPCA Monterey County traveled to the Los Angeles area Saturday to take in cats and dogs from animal shelters to help provide room for more fire evacuees.

California may have more than a million fighting birds, according to the Center for a Humane Economy.

By Dan Bacher Gavin Newsom continued his “California Jobs First” tour last week with a press event at a farm in Colusa in the Sacramento Valley where the...

SALINAS — California Rodeo Salinas President Steve Davis and the Officer Team welcomed new directors to the board and recognized advisory and honorary directors on Oct. 17. 

The year 2024 is shaping up to be the best year for California condors since the critically endangered species clawed back from the brink in the 1980s. In 1982 there were just 22 California condors in the world, which were…

It takes a village to balance an ecosystem.