Month: December 2021

As the climate changes, researchers want to better understand how Arctic seabirds migrate to aid conservation efforts. Using telemetry, they found three jaeger species leave a shared nesting location in...

The Biden administration has announced that it is creating the Hunting and Wildlife Conservation Council, a Federal Advisory Committee that will provide recommendations to the U.S. Departments of the Interior...

In early December, TWS chapters across the country took action to request co-sponsorship and build support for the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (S. 2372; H.R. 2773) leading up to a...

A plan to poison invasive mice on the Farallon Islands National Wildlife Refuge has received approval from the California Coastal Commission. It now awaits a decision from the regional director...

The Wildlife Society is supporting proposed changes to the Endangered Species Act that would allow for more areas to be designated as critical habitat and change the definition of “habitat,”...

Recent research backs the notion that humans have transmitted the virus that causes COVID-19 to animals around the world, raising concerns that animals could serve as a reservoir for the...

Environmental DNA techniques can detect a deadly virus in amphibian ponds, giving wildlife managers critical information about how to best protect vulnerable amphibian species. Ranavirus is deadly to amphibians. “It’s...

The wolf reintroduction success story in Yellowstone is a familiar one. After wolves were reintroduced to the national park in the 1990s, they began preying on elk, which had overbrowsed...

Beavers are heading northward, and they’re having a significant impact on the landscape in northern Canada and Alaska. That’s one of the findings highlighted in the Arctic Report Card 2021,...

The Wildlife Society has established a new fellowship to fund graduate students in pursuit of wildlife policy studies. The fellowship was made possible by a $250,000 donation from longtime TWS...