Category: TWS Wildlife News

Invasive Abert’s squirrels may be passing harmful parasites to endangered native Mount Graham’s squirrels in Arizona. Ongoing research on these squirrels and the creatures that live off of them has...

Aquatic snake species in Kentucky have high incidences fungal disease, which may affect their behavior without impacting their short-term survival. “We did see that snakes — especially the queen snakes...

Wolves in Minnesota’s Voyageurs National Park are changing the wetlands ecosystem there, researchers found, due to their appetite for beavers. “Wolves eat a lot of beavers, especially in Voyageurs, where...

A final rule published by the U.S. Forest Service has now changed its National Environmental Policy Act regulations to include new exemptions of projects from environmental review. In addition, the...

A new bill introduced by the Canadian government commits the country to reaching net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The bill sets mandatory national five-year targets to cut emissions, starting in 2030, although it...

Ongoing research using trail cameras in Costa Rica’s mountains has revealed the presence of elusive bush dogs as well as why some populations of large felids, like tiger cats and...

Polar bears in one of the northernmost populations in the world are seeing some short-term transient benefits from climate change. Climate change in Kane Basin, between northwestern Greenland and Canada’s...

States have long been able to count on federal funding for game management. But 20 years ago, Congress realized, it was a different story for thousands of non-hunted species and...

Increasingly mild winters in cool climates can cause more disease outbreaks for cold-blooded wildlife, researchers found. And when tropical areas have unusual cold snaps, cold-blooded species there also have a...

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt made a number of changes to how his department will implement the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), including placing more restrictions on the...