Month: October 2019

Wildlife managers are seeing initial success after three years of translocating more than 400 lesser prairie-chickens into a sagebrush prairie environment straddling Kansas and Colorado. “Everybody’s still very excited, still...

Two TWS members recently earned 2019 Sustainable Forestry Initiative Awards at the SFI Annual Conference for their conservation work on forests. Emily Jo Williams, vice president for migratory birds and...

The concept of “trophy hunting” can be a hot-button topic that raises emotions on various sides of the issue. Recently, the controversy has played out in the journal Science, where...

Drones and special underwater cameras fitted onto humpback whales have captured dual-perspective shots of the marine mammals feeding using a bubble-net strategy off the coast of southeast Alaska. Bubble-net feeding...

Wolverine biologists are tapping into decades of trapper knowledge from remote parts of Alberta to gain a better understanding of the distribution of the rare mammal in the Canadian province....

A growing number of social media accounts have attracted big followings by featuring influencers getting too close to wildlife and engaging in practices that can be dangerous to both the...

A deterioration in their primary prey may be affecting the recovery of martens in Wisconsin, according to ongoing research. “Their primary prey is absent, or at least really reduced in...

Lawmakers highlighted the challenges of wildlife diseases during two Congressional hearings last week. The Environment and Public Works Committee explored the impact of disease on wildlife health, human health and...

At Fort Stewart, Georgia, and across much of the Southeast, the red-cockaded woodpecker is on the rebound. Listed as endangered since the Endangered Species Act was created, the bird is...

TWS Northeast Section Representative Paul Johansen testified to members of Congress last week about chronic wasting disease and ways the federal government can help state agencies combat it. The Chief...