Month: February 2020

A federal judge last week ruled on a lawsuit over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision to list the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as threatened rather than...

As deer populations explode in New York state, women are increasingly hunting the animals. Women are the fastest growing demographic in hunting in both New York and across the country...

Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposed rule reducing the ability of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to prevent actions that injure or kill native birds....

As invasive barred owls encroach on California spotted owl habitat in the Sierra Nevada, researchers say there’s a narrow window to deal with them before their populations explode. Their growing...

Wildlife managers may be able to use fake falcon robot drones and lasers to reduce bird collisions with aircraft. Aircraft strikes are often fatal for birds and can cause damage...

Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging habitat around them by altering the availability of...

Cryo-freezing amphibian sperm can result in smaller tadpoles and toads — a discovery that may have implications for future captive populations intended for eventual reintroduction. Comparing toads raised through cryo-freezing...

The likelihood of bumblebee populations surviving in a given place has declined by more than 30%, according to new research, and researchers point to climate change as the prime reason....

One hundred years ago, pronghorn roamed the Sonoran Desert in what is now the borderlands between Southern California and northern Baja California in Mexico. Today, they are gone from the...

Toxic bait cartridges automatically fired from helicopters may be the first successful way to efficiently reduce numbers of invasive brown tree snakes at the landscape scale on the island of...