Month: May 2020

In the 17th and 18th century, North American plains bison (Bison bison bison) nearly went extinct due to unregulated and unsustainable harvest and habitat loss. Across the country today, some...

If anyone is appreciating the lack of activity associated with the pandemic lockdowns, it may be amphibians. Traffic can be deadly for amphibians migrating each spring in the northeastern United...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Wildlife researchers and technicians are taking...

Wood frog tadpoles have more intense ranavirus infections in ponds that have high salinity as a result of being close to roads treated with salt for de-icing. Emily Hall, a...

The effort to restore the endangered Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus savannarum floridanus) to the wild has achieved a major milestone. Captive-raised birds released last year are beginning to breed, and...

Artificial light plays a large — and overlooked — role in ongoing insect declines around the world, researchers found. “Light pollution is growing very quickly,” said Brett Seymoure, a postdoctoral...

Last year, USDA’s Wildlife Services donated 138 tons of goose, deer, elk and other meat. Equivalent to more than 1 million servings of protein for people in need, such donations...

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. For Angie McIntire, like so many...

The 2020 Wildlife Publication Awards Committee has named five books to shortlists in the authored and edited book categories and five papers in the journal and monograph categories. In an...

Biologists have found a deadly virus in California rabbits, raising concerns about its spread to other wild and domestic populations. State wildlife and animal health officials say a black-tailed jackrabbit...