Month: January 2015

Wildlife Tunnel
January 12, 2015

Wildlife Video: First Bear Sighted at Park’s Crossing Tunnel

Roads and fences can be dangerous for wildlife, accounting for a large number of deaths every year across North America. Conservationists have also long pointed to habitat fragmentation as a...

Dead Seabirds
January 8, 2015

Hundreds of Dead Seabirds Wash up on Pacific Coast

Hundreds of Cassin’s aucklets (Ptychoramphus aleuticus) — a small white-bellied seabird — have been washing up dead on the shores of the Pacific ocean from British Columbia down to San...

January 8, 2015

Network with the Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of TWS

The Arizona and New Mexico Chapters of TWS will hold their 2015 Joint Annual Meeting on Thursday, February 5 – Saturday, February 7, 2015 at the Hotel Encanto de Las...

Buffalo
January 8, 2015

Parasite Treatment in Buffalo Could Help Spread of TB

A helicopter flew close to the ground in Krueger National Park, South Africa, executing a series of aerial acrobatics in order to steer the herd of African buffalo (Syncerus caffer)...

Pinedale Anticline
January 7, 2015

The Impacts of Energy Development on Wildlife

TWS members can now access the most current science and management strategies regarding energy development through three new fact sheets. The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Impacts of Wind Energy Development...

Golden-winged warblers
January 7, 2015

Fleeing Birds Sense Distant Tornadoes

Hold on to your ruby red slippers, Dorothy. Mother Nature may have her own tornado-warning system. Just days before a series of tornadoes hit the Central and Southern United States...

January 7, 2015

White-Nose Syndrome Better Explained

Researchers have confirmed the way a lethal fungal disease has laid waste to huge populations of North American bats. “This model is exciting for us, because we now have a...

Whitetailed Deer
January 6, 2015

Fall Festival Highlights Busy Semester for Central Missouri

The fall 2014 semester was very busy for The Wildlife Society Student Chapter at the University of Central Missouri. Student members have been very involved this semester; from aging deer...

IWMC 2015
January 6, 2015

Make Your Plans Today For the Vth IWMC

This is the first time that the International Wildlife Management Congress (IWMC) comes to Asia. The Mammal Society of Japan (MSJ) in partnership with the Wildlife Society (TWS) will host...

Fanged Frog
January 6, 2015

Asian Fanged Frog Gives Birth to Tadpoles

On Sulawesi, an island in central Indonesia, Jim McGuire searched for Limnonectes larvaepartus, a small species of fanged frog with a unique strategy for reproduction. McGuire, a herpetologist with the...