Tag: JWM

January 6, 2021

Wild Cam: Unearthing bilbies’ benefits

Bilbies may look like rabbits, but that’s where the similarity ends. In Australia, where the marsupials are native, the government has spent enormous amounts of money to control invasive rabbits....

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 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...

May 11, 2020

Wild Cam: Wombats face grim outlook in hotter, drier climate

It’s a tale of two wombats. Down to fewer than 200 individuals, the northern hairy-nosed wombat (Lasiorhinus krefftii) is listed as critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of...

June 7, 2019

JWM: Cow pies provide curlews nesting spots

Curlews keen to feather their nests are best served by choosing areas with lots of other curlews — and lots of cow pies. According to new research, long‐billed curlews (Numenius...

August 28, 2018

Session of the Week: Tips for writing manuscripts

Registration for The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is now open! Visit twsconference.org for details, or register now by logging in to Your Membership and clicking on the Conference tab. Want to...

February 8, 2018

New JWM issue celebrates waterfowl conservation

The February issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 82.2) features a special section on waterfowl conservation. Guest editor Christopher Williams, Professor of Wildlife Ecology in the Waterfowl and...

April 25, 2016

Announcing the May issue of JWM

The May 2016 issue of The Journal of Wildlife Management (Vol. 80.4) contains 10 papers on topics in wildlife management and conservation, habitat relations, population ecology and quantitative approaches as...

April 11, 2016

TWS’ premier journals plan new initiatives

The Wildlife Society’s leading peer-reviewed journals — the Journal of Wildlife Management and the Wildlife Society Bulletin — have exciting new initiatives and plans to increase submissions and the Society’s...

March 14, 2016

JWM study: Cattle grazing affects federally threatened desert tortoises

Grazing in contentious federal land could be causing stress on federally threatened desert tortoises in Nevada, according to new research. A new study published recently in The Journal of Wildlife...