Month: February 2019

TWS sent a letter this week to Rep. Scott Austin, R-Ga., supporting the Modernizing the Pittman-Robertson Fund for Tomorrow’s Needs Act (H.R. 877), recently introduced in the 116th Congress. The legislation would...

Scientists have long known that fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in the Gulf of California are unusual. They’re spotted there year-round, while most other whale species migrate. Using satellite data, researchers...

New tools using ocean data, including weather and ocean chemistry, are helping determine where fisherman can avoid bycatch of protected sea turtles and other species. Using information that predicts people’s...

A species of frog that inhabits remote mountain pools in the Pacific Northwest is likely to go extinct by the end of the century, researchers found. The Cascades frog (Rana...

Sections, chapters, and working groups of The Wildlife Society hold meetings and workshops throughout the year. In addition, TWS Student Conclaves are usually held in the spring. The following meetings...

Wildlife in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone — the area surrounding the nuclear disaster in Ukraine — have been documented scavenging on fish carcasses, offering more evidence that wildlife is abundant...

When fire or logging comes to a forest, elk (Cervus canadensis) can usually adapt, but looking at forests in the Rockies, researchers found that elk avoid areas that have been...

Mockingbirds (Mimus polyglottos) are known to be a territorial species, but researchers recently found that the presence of lead in the environment can make them even more territorial and aggressive....

There’s no place like home for a gray wolf (Canis lupus) that had been translocated from Minnesota to Isle Royale National Park last fall. The wolf traveled over 15 miles...

Nicholas Gladstone had to crawl through a watery passage in a Tennessee cave to find the species he was looking for, but as it turned out, it found him first....