Month: January 2018

January 23, 2018

Cleveland logo winner features conservation success

With the theme of the upcoming TWS 2018 Annual Conference in Cleveland being conservation successes, Lee Neighbors’ logo fit the bill. His winning logo features a North American river otter...

January 23, 2018

TWS signs letter supporting native grassland conservation

The Wildlife Society, alongside 10 TWS chapters and sections, has joined more than 150 conservation and agriculture organizations in a letter supporting the American Prairie Conservation Act (S.1913, H.R. 3939),...

January 22, 2018

Poisons from marijuana farms pose hazard to California owls

The poisons that California marijuana growers use to kill rodents are moving through the food web, recent research found, and may be negatively impacting threatened northern spotted owls (Strix occidentalis...

January 22, 2018

Researchers assess state of wilderness

In the last two decades, 10 percent of the world’s wilderness has been lost, according to new research, from the boreal forests of North America to the rainforests of Papua...

January 19, 2018

Migratory Bird Treaty Act sees new interpretation

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which prohibits the attempted or actual pursuing, hunting, shooting, wounding, killing, trapping, capturing or collecting of over 800 species of migratory birds, has just been...

January 19, 2018

SJV Chapter hosts advanced animal tracking workshop

It was a cool fall day within a braided section of the north fork of the Tule River, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada range, just outside of Springville,...

January 18, 2018

‘Sonic kayaks’ monitor life underwater

An interdisciplinary team in the United Kingdom has designed a “sonic kayak” that researchers and citizen scientists can use to eavesdrop on the ecosystem below and obtain underwater sound and...

January 18, 2018

At play, Native American kids show deeper ecological knowledge

Can playtime tell us how young children see wildlife and the environment? A study of Midwestern preschoolers found Native American children were more likely than others to roleplay as animals...

January 18, 2018

Rebuilding the North Dakota student chapter

Nominations for the 2018 Student Chapter Advisor of the Year Award will be accepted through May 1. Visit the Conservation Education Award and Wildlife Education Award webpages by clicking the links...

January 18, 2018

For plovers, manmade habitat falls short of the real thing

Efforts to use manmade habitat to help conserve threatened piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) on the Missouri River have helped, but they fell short of the work that nature would do,...