Month: January 2018

The toll of war isn’t limited to human casualties. Biologists recently found that since the mid-20th century, as conflict has become more common across Africa, mammal populations in turbulent areas...

Congressional representatives from Arizona have introduced legislation to prevent the president from extending or establishing national monuments within state borders. Reps. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and and Andy Briggs (R-AZ) introduced...

As birds head south for their fall migration, bright city lights are luring them into busy cities, according to recent research. While smaller-scale studies and anecdotes have shown that birds...

Tracking Forest Carnivores and Backcountry Recreationists On a hot afternoon in Glenwood Springs, Colo., an eclectic array of state and federal administrators, wildlife biologists, recreation planners, scientists and law enforcement...

Nominations for the 2018 Student Chapter of the Year Award will be accepted through May 1. Visit the 2018 Student Chapter of the Year Award webpage by clicking the link above, or visit https://wildlife.org/engage/awards/ to learn...

On Jan. 22, the Supreme Court unanimously ruled that challenges to the Clean Water Rule should be heard in federal district courts rather than in federal appeals courts. The Obama-era...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has issued a final rule that declared the eastern puma (Puma concolor couguar) extinct. This review process began in July 2015, when the USFWS...

Applying social science approaches to conservation research is growing in popularity, but as wildlife biologists step outside their quantitative world, they can find themselves wandering unfamiliar territory. Nibedita Mukherjee, a...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will be holding two workshops at their upcoming annual meeting in Santa Rosa, California on February 5 and February 6. For more information...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has called for a status review of 18 species currently listed as threatened or endangered. These status reviews, which are required once every five...