Month: August 2020

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will revisit its 2015 decision not to list the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) under the Endangered Species Act as a condition of a...

It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...

Biologists may use mild tranquilizers as a technique to calm large animals when they capture and handle them, but in a recent study, researchers found that for mule deer, partial...

While California condors often die from exposure to lead and other contaminants, those that survive may still experience sublethal stress impacts. Researchers found that raptors that fed on marine mammal...

In order to stop future devastating pandemics like COVID-19, wildlife scientists and experts argue that a global system of wildlife surveillance is necessary. The researchers point to epidemics like Ebola,...

Three Texas Parks and Wildlife Department employees were killed in a helicopter crash on Saturday while conducting aerial surveys for desert bighorn sheep at the Black Gap Wildlife Management Area...

By the 2080s, amphibians may be either too hot or too dehydrated to inhabit the mountains of the Pacific Northwest under projected climate change scenarios. In a study published in...

While the oil and gas industry causes a number of environmental disruptions in northern Alberta, some of the pits dug during development may provide denning habitat for beavers. But the...

Tunnels designed to help wildlife pass safely under major highways do not appear to trap small animals in Quebec, as some researchers had speculated. While overpasses or underpasses built to...

Safeguarding Natural Heritage, a summer outreach program supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helps high school students explore careers in plant and animal science, wildlife management and agribusiness within...