Month: October 2018

A hurricane appears to have wiped out a remote Hawaiian island that served as important nesting grounds for threatened green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) and pupping grounds for endangered Hawaiian...

Canada’s National Advisory Panel on Marine Protected Area Standards recently released its final report and recommendations to the minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard. The report includes...

On the British overseas territory of Gough Island in the South Atlantic, albatross numbers are plummeting, and researchers say the reason is introduced house mice. The researchers discovered that the...

As researchers noticed changes of bobcat (Lynx rufus) harvest over time in Wisconsin, they wondered if population models for bobcats based on harvest data were still accurate. In a study...

The following student chapter news was included in the fall 2018 newsletter of the Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society. Photos of student chapter activities are also included in the...

It’s late fall in the high mountains of western North America and the whitebark pine (Pinus albicaulis) forests are alive with activity. Birds and mammals are feasting on the pine’s...

Endangered native Hawaiian waterbirds like the Hawaiian gallinule (Gallinula galeata sandvicensis) and the Hawaiian coot (Fulica alai) have benefited from habitat on national wildlife refuges and other protected wetlands, ultimately...

A pair of TWS members will be featured on the Canadian nature show “The Nature of Things.” Art Rodgers and Ullas Karanth will appear on the episode “Spying on Animals,”...

As engineers of their wetland environments, beavers help conserve streams and lakes in ecosystems ranging from forests to prairies. But it turns out that water isn’t all they manage. Researchers...

When diving ducks plunge into the water, they run the risk of getting trapped in fishermen’s gill nets. These nets are responsible for hundreds of thousands of incidental deaths of...