Month: April 2020

April 8, 2020

Endangered salamanders benefit from wetland restoration

The endangered tiger salamanders, the largest American terrestrial salamander, is making a comeback in Maryland, according to the department’s spring 2020 surveys keeping track of their breeding. “They are having...

Yellowstone grizzly
April 8, 2020

Environmental groups challenge grazing effects on grizzlies

The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit in late March in federal court against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Forest Service,...

April 7, 2020

Fee suspension extended at national wildlife refuges

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is extending its suspension of entrance fees at national wildlife refuges through April. “Refuges are special outdoor experiences to recreate and embrace nature while...

April 7, 2020

Wild Cam: Human activity blocks African wild dog dispersal

Human structures and roadways present some of the largest barriers to the connectivity of endangered African wild dog populations in southern Africa. Researchers set out on a vast multi-country study...

April 7, 2020

Blackbirds heed warbler warnings about cowbird danger

To keep their nests safe, blackbirds are homing in on warbler warning signals about dangerous brood parasitic cowbirds. But the exchange is not one-sided — previous research has found that...

April 6, 2020

Tiger at Bronx Zoo tests positive for COVID-19

A Malayan tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and three other tigers and three African lions at the zoo have symptoms consistent with COVID-19....

April 6, 2020

The March issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin

The Wildlife Society Bulletin is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management and...

April 6, 2020

As whooping cranes rebound, flock sizes grow

As the endangered whooping crane has recovered from a mere 16 birds in the 1940s to over 500 today, their flock sizes have also increased during migration, researchers found. Whooping...

April 3, 2020

Watch: Allegheny woodrats disappear from parts of their range

Threatened Allegheny woodrats are disappearing from areas in Pennsylvania, according to state officials with the Pennsylvania Game Commission. In 2017 in Clinton County, the commission deployed 13 trail cameras to...

April 3, 2020

What’s ‘the biggest conservation bang for your buck?’

If you wanted to spend the least amount of money to get the most conservation value, where would you go? What species would you target? That’s what Paul Armsworth, a...