Month: October 2017

When Winifred “Wini” Kessler learned that she achieved the highest honor bestowed by The Wildlife Society, the Aldo Leopold Memorial Award, she was shocked, she said, and “feeling like a...

Gray wolf (Canis lupus) hunting has resumed in Wyoming, pursuant to state management and conservation efforts. The species was removed from the federal endangered species list on April 25, 2017....

When a new semester arrives at Penn State University, professor Cal DuBrock makes a round of the school’s natural resource classes with a pitch. Whether it’s forestry, fisheries or wildlife,...

Seventeen aspiring wildlifers representing tribes from across the continent traveled to this year’s Annual Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, through TWS’ Native Student Professional Development program. Organized by the Native...

Monarch butterflies that overwinter on the West Coast of North America have declined from the millions 30 years ago to only 300,000 today, according to new research, raising concerns that...

Registration is now open for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Conservation Training Center’s (NCTC’s) Climate Academy.  A new condensed version of the program has been developed through a...

Even as doom and gloom stories flood the news, conservation efforts are turning the tide for threatened sea turtles. New research suggests that all seven sea turtle species are experiencing...

When British navigators charted the global waters they sailed centuries ago, they didn’t intend to record ecological information that would have a bearing on marine conservation. A recent study tapped...

Among the nearly 88,000 plant and animal species assessed in this year’s IUCN Red List of Endangered Species update, while some species seem to be improving, over 25,000 are threatened...

The largest captive breeding program for Whooping Crane (Grus americana)  is closing after 51 years. The program at the U.S. Geological Survey Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Laurel, MD began...