Month: December 2021

Four decades after PCBs were banned, the chemicals are still present in the environment and affecting wildlife. Researchers in New York found chickadees and song sparrows that ate contaminated insects...

Just as researchers increasingly realize the importance of urban areas for wildlife, they’re also discovering how important wildlife is for city dwellers. The presence of wildlife has been associated with...

Many studies focus on the effects of insect pests on forest vegetation. But new research shows that spotted wing drosophila (Drosophila suzukii), originally from Asia but now found widely in...

The swift fox (Vulpes velox) disappeared from the landscape of the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana over 50 years ago, due largely to poisoning as part of a coyote...

Researchers are tracking dolphin populations across parts of the Venezuelan coast in an effort to improve information in an understudied part of the Caribbean Sea. “Venezuela holds 33% of the...

A rare Chinese deer has seen over a century of threats—ultimately resulting in its extinction in the wild. But research recently suggests that, thanks to their genetics, chronic wasting disease—a...

Researchers in Australia have come up with a novel way to protect native wildlife from feral cats. Scientists with the University of South Australia developed rice-sized implants that can be...

The state of Montana plans to petition the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, requesting that the agency remove grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) in the Northern Continental Divide ecosystem from...

The Wildlife Society is encouraging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to move forward with plans to regulate the incidental take of species listed under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act....

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. If you asked me eight years ago, I did not know what lesson...