Month: November 2020

Thirty Kemp’s ridley sea turtles were on the back to the sea — by air — when the rescue mission hit a few snags. Flying on the day before Thanksgiving,...

Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt made a number of changes to how his department will implement the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF), including placing more restrictions on the...

Birds may provide ecosystem services for coffee farms in Kenya by eating pest insects that damage crops. By encouraging the diversity of bird species, coffee farmers may be able to...

When the Washington State Department of Agriculture destroyed a nest of Asian giant hornets last month, they not only gathered up the hundreds of hornets at various life stages from...

In 2018, multiple North Carolina airports began reporting Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) presence and damage. Airports reported that wild turkeys were no longer responding to harassment techniques and would...

The Bureau of Land Management is calling for the oil and gas industry to nominate tracts of land along the coastal plain of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge that could...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. I would like to see the wildlife field become more diverse over the...

When Christoph Nolte created a high-resolution map of land value in the U.S., he wasn’t interested in buying and selling real estate. He was interested in creating a tool to...

Some wildlife in North Carolina is more abundant in suburban backyards than in nearby forests, and some of these yards even display more species richness. In 2016, scientists deployed camera...

A report from the environmental organization Oceana has documented nearly 1,800 U.S. incidents of marine mammals and sea turtles swallowing or becoming entangled in plastic in the ocean since 2009....