Month: July 2021

Journal of Wildlife Management, Wildlife Society Bulletin and Wildlife Monographs saw an increase in their 2020 Journal Impact Factor, according to recently updated numbers in the Journal Citation Reports published...

Desecheo is a tiny islet—a little more than half a square mile—off the west coast of the Puerto Rican mainland. The rocky island is partly forested, though it often looks...

Efforts to restore endangered whooping cranes (Grus americana) to the wild have resumed after COVID-19 precautions brought the program nearly to a halt. Fourteen crane chicks are being raised in...

The results from the 2021 TWS ballot are in. Members have approved new bylaws for the Society. This new document improves upon the previous bylaws in several ways, including rearranging the...

A highway bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month includes important funding for wildlife connectivity. The $715 billion legislation extends for another five years the current...

John Moriarty, a longtime TWS member, received the 2020 Minnesota Award from the Minnesota Chapter of The Wildlife Society. The chapter annually gives the award to Minnesota’s top conservationists who...

The number of wild horses and burros on public lands has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to a new report from the Bureau of Land...

When Michael Phillips was 12 years old in 1970, he recalls flipping through the four channels on his parents’ black and white television and stopping when he got to a...

Despite a ban on elephant killing and the development of several protected areas for the animals to roam, some farmers still take the lives of the pachyderms in northwestern Sri...

Starvation has driven a record number of manatee deaths in Florida in the first half of 2021. In the past six months, 841 West Indian manatees (Trichechus manatus) have died,...