Month: March 2019

This article originally appears in the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s March 2019 newsletter. Photos from the field trip are also included in the newsletter. The San Joaquin Valley...

Invasive species are either the culprits or the accomplice in the extinction of some 300 species across the planet, according to new research.  “It tells us that we have quite...

By 2070, 1,700 species of amphibians, birds and mammals are at risk for extinction as a result of human land-use shrinking their habitat. In a Nature Climate Change study, researchers combined...

Elizabeth Miller, a member-at-large on the Georgia TWS chapter board,has been selected as the 2018 Eastern Region Wildlife Biologist of the Year for the USDA Wildlife Services program. As the...

As University of Michigan biologists were walking a night transect through the Amazon rainforest in Peru, they came across something they had never seen before. Spotting a tarantula the size...

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a California Botany for Wildlifers workshop May 1 to 4 in Santa Barbara, California. The goal of this workshop is to equip...

YouTube videos that people upload of their amphibian pets are helping researchers understand what types of frogs and salamanders may become invasive. “The same traits that make some species successful...

The Trump administration recently requested an increase in funding for national wildlife refuges for the Fiscal Year 2020 federal budget. This comes just weeks after the Fiscal Year 2019 appropriations...

Handling wildlife is often a critical part in wildlife research. Biologists can’t collar a deer or radio tag a bird without it. But increasingly, researchers are seeing consequences to handling...

Artificial intelligence is becoming an important tool for conservation scientists as new technologies make it easier for researchers to comb through vast amounts of data. A PhD student could “spend...