Month: September 2020

September 17, 2020

Virtual conference offers chances to network

For only $125, you can get access to all of the educational content from the virtual TWS conference. Click here to register by midnight PT on Sunday, Sept. 20. Some of...

September 17, 2020

USFWS released proposal to clarify critical habitat designations

The process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species is getting an update through a new proposed regulation released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

September 17, 2020

Is massive bird die-off in New Mexico linked to wildfires?

Biologists say an “unprecedented” number of migratory birds are dying in New Mexico, and they aren’t sure why. But they have an inkling it may have something to do with...

September 17, 2020

Senate Committee considers delisting grizzlies

Under legislation considered last week by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Department of the Interior would be required to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly...

September 16, 2020

In Black Mammalogists Week, tackling inclusion in new taxa

After TWS member Rhiannon Kirton, became involved in Black Birders Week, she noticed a lot of conversations happening on Twitter. What caught her eye in particular was people’s interests in...

September 16, 2020

Clint Boal receives McAtee-Burger award

Clint Boal has received The Wildlife Society’s 2020 W.L. McAtee and G. V. Burger Award for Outstanding Service as an Associate Editor. The award recognizes the outstanding work of an...

September 16, 2020

AFWA elects Sara Parker Pauley as president

Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies members elected Sara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, as the organization’s new president during its virtual annual meeting on Tuesday....

September 15, 2020

Conservation has saved 48 birds, mammals from extinction

Efforts to conserve species have resulted in saving at least 48 mammals and birds from extinction since the early 1990s. The rates of extinction would have been three or four...

September 15, 2020

CWD may complicate brucellosis control in Yellowstone elk

Wildlife managers who feed elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to bolster the species’ numbers are facing a looming problem that may scuttle their effort to attract tourists and keep...

September 15, 2020

JWM: Gopher tortoise translocations deemed a “remarkable success”

Translocating gopher tortoises to a barrier island in Georgia has resulted in a “robust and secure” population two decades after major efforts. “If you do it right, [translocation] can actually...