Month: April 2016

Nominations for the 2016 Diversity Award will be accepted through May 1. Click on the link above to visit the Diversity Award webpage, or visit wildlife.org/awards to learn more about all TWS awards. As...

The Washington Post featured long-time TWS member and squirrel expert John Koprowski in an article to help kick off their sixth annual Squirrel Week on April 9. Koprowski, a professor...

In the game of chess, taking your opponent’s queen puts the rest of the kingdom in danger. Taking queen bumble bees from the U.S. to Europe in the past might...

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...

Gopher tortoise populations facing threats from habitat loss and depredation could be feeling extra heat from invasive fire ants. “I think fire ants have the potential to do some serious...

It seemed like a no-brainer to Sean Graham. The professor at Sul Ross State University in Texas was tasked with tracking down Chamberlain’s dwarf (Eurycea chamberlaini) salamanders and one-toed amphiumas...

The Liberal Party is back in the majority seat in Canada, and their 2016 proposed budget reflects a renewed emphasis on promoting science and conservation. The budget, which was released...

Nominations for the 2016 Special Recognition Service Award will be accepted through May 1. Visit the Special Recognition Service Award webpage by clicking on the link above, or visit https://wildlife.org/engage/awards/...

The Wildlife Society’s 23rd Annual Conference in Raleigh, North Carolina, promises to be one of our organization’s biggest and best events ever! Early projections indicate that the October 15-19 event will draw...

What do disease detection, repellents, and aircraft-bird collisions have in common? All require a knowledge of how animals perceive their surroundings. Scientists at the National Wildlife Research Center (NWRC), the...