Month: January 2016

A fungus is spreading among European wildlife, killing nearly 100% of its hosts within about seven days, and a new rule under the Lacey Act is aiming to stymie the...

The Wildlife Society (TWS) membership in 2014 included nearly 10,000 professionals and students with expertise in all aspects of wildlife biology, research, conservation, and management. As part of an effort...

The Wildlife Society is currently accepting applications for the Leadership Institute Class of 2016. Ten early-career professionals will receive leadership training, mentoring, and a travel grant to attend TWS’ Annual...

Recording devices present new opportunities for researchers to monitor bird populations, according to recently published studies. In California, researchers are using passive acoustics devices to listen in on elusive marbled...

The Wildlife Society is working with several partners to host a workshop titled Barriers and Bridges in Reconnecting Natural Resources Science and Management, which will examine the complicated relationship between...

Warm weather and water conditions caused by el Nino may be the reason thousands of seabirds are washing up dead on Alaska shores or flying inland far from their traditional...

When it comes to tracking the genetic similarity of one muskrat to another, the best thing to do is go the way the river flows, according to research presented at...

Helping piping plover conservation might now be as easy as buying something on Amazon, according to Rob Theiler, a research geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey. A mobile application made...

When it comes to wild pollinators, a lack of cohesive information makes it difficult to know much about bee abundance in the United States. “Without knowledge of the current status,...

A new model combines ocean current information with sea turtle nesting data to find out which populations may have been the most affected by the 2010 Deepwater Horizon spill in...