Month: February 2018

February 28, 2018

Bill introduced to ban Florida coastal drilling

Members of Florida’s congressional delegation have moved to codify Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s promise to exempt the state from proposed offshore oil and gas exploration. In January, Zinke proposed opening...

February 28, 2018

New invasive species increase globally

The number of newly emerging alien species is increasing globally, according to new research. The study was part of a larger project in which a group of colleagues pulled together...

February 28, 2018

Special JWM section highlights waterfowl conservation

Waterfowl conservation is a unique realm of wildlife management, and now it has its own journal issue to highlight it. One hundred years after the Migratory Bird Treaty Act was...

February 27, 2018

Recovering with the butterflies

Nick Haddad doesn’t remember it, but while recovering from a traumatic brain injury that resulted in memory loss, he couldn’t stop telling one of his nurses about the rare St....

February 27, 2018

New blog presents wildlife health field stories

A new blog offers firsthand accounts of wildlife health researchers in the field across the globe. Blogs from the Field is published by Wildlife Health Cornell, one of the university’s...

February 27, 2018

Florida’s sand shortage could affect nesting habitat

As spring moves closer, many types of wildlife are preparing for the breeding season. Unfortunately, species that nest along Florida’s coasts may face some challenges due to a sand shortage....

February 27, 2018

Duck! It’s a drone!

The use of drones in the wildlife field has soared over the last five years, from tracking polar bear activity in the Arctic to fighting rhino poaching in South Africa....

February 26, 2018

SFBA member receives lifetime achievement award

Reginald Barrett, CWB®, was recently presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who’s Who, the world’s premier publisher of biological profiles. Barrett has taught at the...

February 26, 2018

Last remaining ‘wild’ horses not so wild after all

The stocky horses of central Asia known as Przewalski’s horses were long believed to be the only truly “wild” horses in the world — the ancestors of the domesticated horse....

February 23, 2018

North Dakota Chapter supports Bakken documentary

The North Dakota Chapter of The Wildlife Society has provided financial support for the production of a short documentary on the impacts of energy development in the Bakken region. The...