Month: September 2018

Crews are relocating hundreds of mountain goats (Oreamnos americanus) from Olympic National Park to habitat in the North Cascades. Park officials say this will help protect natural resources, reduce visitor...

The Professional Development Committee of the North Carolina Chapter of The Wildlife Society will hold a threatened and endangered species workshop Nov. 1 at the Weymouth Woods Sandhills Nature Preserve...

Prescribed fire is often presented as a savior of wildlife and their habitats, restoring ecosystems and protecting landscapes from catastrophic wildfires. However, for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) and many sagebrush...

Shell Canada is helping make way for Canada’s first protected marine area under the Canada Wildlife Act by giving up its offshore exploration rights. The company gave up its right...

Cooperation to conquer screwworm and protect Key deer Imagine happening upon an animal through a cloud of flies and the smell of decay, its body full of wriggling maggots as...

A team of researchers say they have a novel approach to tracking down elephant poachers, the New York Times reports. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for Conservation Biology at...

Champions of the Land and Water Conservation Fund are again pushing to reauthorize the program before it expires. The fund, which uses proceeds from offshore and gas drilling to conserve...

Eight states filed suit on Sept. 5 in federal court against the Interior Department, asking the court to vacate last year’s opinion from Interior’s Office of Solicitor regarding the Migratory...

Ever since the demise of bee colonies worldwide came to conservationists’ attention over a decade ago, the effort to better understand diseases afflicting bees has been gathering momentum. More recently,...

While most mainland U.S. residents were focusing on the potential of Hurricane Florence to harm coasts in the Southeast, other American territories were under threat from another massive and damaging...