Month: September 2018

In 2017, the White House announced plans to streamline government agencies and increase efficiency. That included reorganizing the Interior Department so that most of its bureaus would follow the same regional...

Collecting distribution information for elusive species can be a challenge, but researchers wanted to find the best, most cost-effective way to do so. In a case study published in the...

The number of manatee deaths in Florida so far this year has exceeded last year’s total deaths, and officials say Red Tide is partly to blame. Biologists say the algal...

Are the fastest animals really the slowest? In a study in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers found some of the world’s fastest animals are actually some of the slowest when...

Lending a helping hand to gopher tortoises (Gopherus polyphemus) through head-starting may help augment depleted populations, according to new research. “We know there are depleted populations in areas with suitable...

Biologists studying invasive pythons in the Florida Everglades came across a disturbing finding. While most of the snakes they studied showed genetics of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus), as expected, 13...

The Bureau of Land Management has released an updated draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for plans to test a sterilization technique on wild horses (Equus...

Registration for The Wildlife Society’s 25th Annual Conference in Cleveland, Ohio, is now open! Visit twsconference.org for details, or register now by logging in to Your Membership and clicking on the Conference tab. Whether you’re...