Welcome to the TWS Wildlife Damage Management Working Group
The Wildlife Damage Management Working Group (WDMWG) promotes better understanding of the challenges of managing human-wildlife conflicts and provides a forum for TWS members to advance their skills and knowledge of wildlife damage management practices.
Our Goals
- Enhance understanding within the profession and various stakeholder groups of the need for responsible wildlife damage management activities.
- Facilitate information transfer to wildlife management professionals and various publics.
- Serve as a professional catalyst, clearinghouse and conduit for wildlife damage management information.
- Assist TWS Council and resource management agencies with wildlife damage management policy formulation, analysis and decision making.
- Promote development of new technologies and maintenance of existing cost-effective management tools.
Announcements
Grants are awarded when funds are available. The objective of this program is to provide a travel grant for members of the WDMWG to assist them in offsetting the cost of travel to a professional meeting. It is the intent of the WDMWG that the meeting will be related to The Wildlife Society such as the Annual Conference, Wildlife Damage Management Conference or similar meeting. This grant is available to both students and professionals that are members of the WDMWG.
Become a member
Membership is available to all current TWS members. You may join our working group by logging in to your TWS account.
Officers
Officers
Meetings
We host a biennial Wildlife Damage Management Conference. Stay tuned for details on the 2027 conference. Click here to access the proceedings from prior Wildlife Damage Management Conferences (1983 through 2019).
In addition, we hold an annual business meeting during TWS’ Annual Conference.