Month: October 2020

Back to Position Statements page The conservation of native plant and animal species, communities, and populations is affected by the actions of all people, acting individually and collectively. The future...

By 2050, researchers predict alien species worldwide will increase 36% from 2005 numbers. Using a mathematical model, the team calculated how many nonnative species would arrive based on historical invasions...

Advocacy groups filed a lawsuit in late September challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision not to list the bi-state population of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) under the Endangered Species Act....

In the final year of Thomas Martin’s songbird study in Venezuela, he noticed some birds just weren’t breeding. In fact, one species — the gray-breasted wood-wren (Henicorhina leucophrys) — went...

Volunteer community scientists are monitoring the abundance of dragonflies and damselflies in an effort that will help scientists track insect declines around the world. Scientists, who published their research recently...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has added the eastern black rail and the coastal distinct population segment of the Pacific marten to the list of threatened species protected under...

A large degree of poaching in central India may come down to a lack of connection between policy makers and the people most affected by wildlife hunting regulations in rural...

They chew down trees, dam up waterways and build wetland ecosystems that benefit a host of other species. Now, new research shows that beavers’ ecosystem engineering might have another benefit...

A new large-scale snake survey has found that a deadly fungal disease has spread through 19 U.S. states and Puerto Rico. The snake fungal disease Ophidiomycosis is caused by the fungus...

Many prime areas for birds in the Great Lakes region of the United States lack protection, according to new research. The northern shore of Lake Michigan is particularly rich in...