Month: July 2020

Tom Ryder was in his first year in college when he first learned about The Wildlife Society. “I stumbled across this gray journal in the dusty old bookshelves of the...

The Department of the Interior has abandoned plans to reintroduce grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) into the North Cascades ecosystem. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt made the announcement last week during...

When carnivores prey on livestock, managers have to navigate so many economic and cultural factors, it can be easy to forget that at the heart of it, an ecological dynamic...

For the first time, researchers have agreed on a roadmap for listing all of the world’s known species. “Listing all species may sound routine but is a difficult and complex...

The House Appropriations Committee passed two appropriations bills last week that would provide small increases to many wildlife management and conservation programs. The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations advanced Fiscal...

After nearly five years as editor in chief of the Wildlife Society Bulletin, Dave Haukos is stepping down and Bret Collier is stepping in to the new position. Haukos said...

A gene that dictates the rare white variant of black bears known in coastal British Columbia as Kermode bears is less common in places that were supposedly hotspots for the...

Rats have wreaked havoc on seabird populations nesting in the remote Haida Gwaii archipelago off the northwest coast of British Columbia for centuries. First introduced by European ships in the...

Matthias Loretto had been studying common ravens in Yellowstone National Park — as well as in Austria, where he is from —  looking at how much ravens use wolf kills...

Giant monitor lizards once thought to be invasive are actually native to islands in Palau, the Mariana archipelago and Micronesia. Researchers recently examined more than 50 monitor lizard specimens stored...