Month: September 2021

As ecosystems face a gauntlet of pressures that are reshaping how they function in the future, managers are left trying to figure out how to respond. While actions often revolve...

Cameras tuned to detect near-infrared wavelengths can help wildlife managers and others hunt down invasive Burmese pythons. A new study published recently in Applied Optics shows that near-infrared spectrum cameras...

To produce science that can be implemented and make changes in conservation and management, researchers say managers, scientists and other stakeholders should work together from the beginning, even developing together...

The Bureau of Land Management reversed its recent decision to allow a rancher to move cattle through Mojave desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) habitat on federal lands in the California Desert...

They may not be able to perform a leg lock, but male cottonmouths will still wrestle for their mates.  Wildlife manager Matthew Moore with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources...

The recent appearance of hundreds of birds killed from striking the World Trade Center in New York City has raised new concerns about the effects of artificial lights at night....

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be completing a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S. after its delisting from the federal Endangered Species Act...

The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will be moving back to Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced to agency staff last week. In August 2020, the agency’s headquarters...

Cape buffalo could be contracting pathogens when they gather at water holes during the dry season in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, and biologists worry the problem will worsen with...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering changing the permitting regulations for the incidental take of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and golden eagles to streamline the process, making it straightforward and...