Month: May 2021

Small satellite tags glued onto green sea turtle hatchlings are revealing where the reptiles go immediately after they leave the beaches of central Florida. The discovery will help researchers better...

Sodium nitrite bait seemed like an ideal toxicant to deal with wild pigs. But when dead birds appeared near a test bait station in Texas, biologists realized they had eaten...

Saying eastern hog-nosed snakes are a little prickly is probably an understatement. When Laura Robson, a master’s student at the University of Ottawa at the time, would approach one, the...

The U.S. federal administration released its “America the Beautiful” report, a broad conservation framework aimed at moving the country toward the goal of conserving at least 30% of all lands...

The world has 50 billion birds, a team of Australian researchers has concluded, but most species are rare and in need of greater conservation efforts. In a study published in...

In an effort to recognize the broad range of titles committee members review each year for the TWS Wildlife Publication Awards, the committee has created a shortlist for each category....

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

Adding a pair of google eyes to a buoy can help deter seabirds from getting tangled in fishing gear. Gillnets particularly damage 400,000 seabirds a year. The birds can smell...

Translocations have overwhelmingly produced the types of results that wildlife managers intended, according to a new review. Whether it’s bighorn sheep (Ovis canadensis) being shifted back into montane ecological niches...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. Imposter syndrome can be defined as a collection of feelings of inadequacy that...