Month: September 2016

The National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, a nine-member federal advisory council that represents various stakeholder interests, recommended that BLM sell or euthanize unadoptable horses, as directed in the...

The Wildlife Society’s 23rd Annual Conference in Raleigh this October features a daily plenary or keynote session. Monday morning’s plenary will focus on invasive species in a session titled “The...

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has determined that most humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) no longer require listing under the Endangered Species Act. After reviewing data showing growing trends in...

Pikas are a textbook climate tragedy. As temperatures rise, the fluffy, cold-loving mammals retreat higher and higher up mountain slopes, eventually perishing on the too-warm peaks. But that isn’t happening...

If you’re ready to kick off the TWS Annual Conference with loads of fun and entertainment, but also want to get down to business and begin making great connections with...

Lizards may be in even worse trouble than ecologists thought. The small, cold-blooded animals are highly sensitive to climate change, and researchers have predicted that around 20 percent of species...

Introduced honey bees (Apis mellifera) may be hogging the flowers on California’s central coast, outcompeting native pollinators. When researchers surveyed bees in undisturbed meadows over 13 years, they saw alarming...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, which is currently holding its conference in Honolulu, Hawaii, announced that 38 plant species found only in Hawaii had gone extinct and hundreds...

Twice a year biologists, staff and volunteers at the Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge live-capture California condors, part of a remarkable effort to recover North America’s largest, highest-flying, and most...

British Columbia’s Ministry of the Environment recently updated a policy that will end the practice of relocating large carnivores that have either come in contact with humans or become habituated...