Month: June 2015

While federal agencies responsible for managing free-ranging horses on western public lands are prohibited from selling animals to processing facilities in Canada and Mexico, the same restrictions are not imposed...

The North Carolina Chapter of TWS submitted a letter to the State Legislature opposing legislation that would expand the captive cervid industry. S.B. 513 would transfer jurisdiction of the captive...

Consider this: Last year, more than 1,200 rhinoceroses were slaughtered for their horns; in 2013, 20,000 elephants were killed for their tusks and ivory; and in the last century, the...

One of the largest camera trap surveys ever conducted used citizen scientists to take an inside view into discovering the ways animals in the Serengeti divide up their space and...

The submission site for student travel grants to the TWS 22nd Annual Conference is now open. Apply here. Grants are available for TWS student members presenting a technical paper or...

Just two weeks left to become a Charter Member of The 1,000! Charter members are visionaries who not only recognize a need, but move to action to realize a goal....

More than a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt was on a hunting trip in Mississippi where he refused to shoot a Louisiana black bear that one of the guides and...

Recent efforts across the western U.S. have focused on the potential sale and transfer of federal lands to state governments and private entities. In 2012, the Utah state legislature passed...

Waterfowl commonly hunted as game birds in eastern Canada are ingesting significant amounts of plastic and garbage metal, according to a new study. While researchers have been documenting the ingesting...

The United States Forest Service recently published plans for a new program to monitor bat populations across North America and determine the effects of ongoing threats such as habitat loss,...