Month: February 2019

This year’s Annual Conference will be an especially exciting event. For the first time, The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society are joining forces for a joint conference, where fisheries...

The last recorded sighting of a Bramble Cay melomys was in 2009, when a fisherman reported seeing a few of the small rodents take flight across the Australian island where...

Last fall, the Bureau of Land Management gathered 845 wild horses and burros from the Warm Springs Herd Management Area in central Oregon as part of a sterilization research project. The...

When researchers looked at the effects of recent extreme drought in the Sierra Nevada, they expected to find the large-scale death of trees would cause bird numbers to decline. Instead,...

Researchers have launched the first large-scale laboratory release of mosquitos genetically engineered using a gene editing technique that some biologists believe holds promise for combating an array of problems, from...

On former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s last day in office, he signed a secretarial order calling for the department to do more to prevent wildfire on its lands. Coming in...

Averting another government shutdown, Congress passed a $333 billion appropriations and border security package containing language to fund federal agencies through the end of the fiscal year. The bill provides funding...

Spreading salt on the roads to make winter driving safer may be causing problems for wildlife. In a recent article, scientists reported a large increase of chloride in streams, lakes...

This article originally appears in the North Carolina Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s Winter 2018-19 newsletter. Photos from the workshop also appear in the newsletter. On Nov. 1, over 40...

Prey species such as tiger moths (Arctia caja) often use acoustics to deter approaching bats. But can people do the same thing? Sara Weaver, a doctoral candidate at Texas State...