Category: TWS Wildlife News

November 25, 2020

North Carolina thankful to send more turkeys to Texas

In 2018, multiple North Carolina airports began reporting Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) presence and damage. Airports reported that wild turkeys were no longer responding to harassment techniques and would...

November 25, 2020

Interior moves ahead with ANWR drilling plans

The Bureau of Land Management is calling for the oil and gas industry to nominate tracts of land along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that could...

November 24, 2020

Wildlife is right in your backyard — literally

Some wildlife in North Carolina is more abundant in suburban backyards than in nearby forests, and some of these yards even display more species richness. In 2016, scientists deployed camera...

November 23, 2020

JWM: Lightning strike points to feral horses’ toll

Although it was lonely being by himself in the middle of the Argentine Pampas, the last thing Alberto Scorolli wanted was to meet a friend. He’d been hiking through the...

November 23, 2020

Land use, climate increasingly restrict wildlife home ranges

Throughout the world, the average wildlife species has lost 18% of its natural range due to land use and climate change, researchers found. About 16% of species worldwide have lost...

November 20, 2020

WSB: A new raccoon hairdo can help researchers with identification

When Gregory Geller was developing ways to protect turtle nests, he paid a lot of mind to keeping out predators like raccoons. He designed electric fences, and he needed a...

November 20, 2020

JWM: Chamois survival drops due to climate change

Populations of chamois in the Italian Alps are decreasing due to the ongoing effects of climate change. “The ratio of yearlings to adult females was strongly declining during the study...

November 19, 2020

How is a changing Arctic affecting wildlife movement?

Long-term wildlife movement studies in the Arctic are hard to come by. That’s because they can be expensive, requiring tags that communicate through satellite networks that require subscriptions. When movement...

November 19, 2020

Great American Outdoors Act implementation begins — slowly

Implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act is off to a rocky start, with the administration missing a deadline to submit to Congress a list of funding for projects to...

November 18, 2020

Wolf sanctuary in Banff stops at the borders

Wolves enjoy a sanctuary in one of Canada’s most iconic national parks, but the area just outside the invisible borders is fraught with danger. “The park is not effectively protecting...