Month: February 2022

Over the past six months, thousands of Cape fur seals (Arctocephalus pusillus) have been turning up dead on South Africa’s Atlantic Coast. No one is sure why, but Tess Gridley,...

The U.S. Senate confirmed Martha Williams’ nomination as director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Feb. 17. Williams has led the USFWS as its principal duty director since...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. Ever since I was young, I grew up wanting to become a veterinarian,...

Turkeys in Illinois use both burned and unburned areas, depending on where they are in the reproductive cycle, researchers found. They say the finding points to how managers can use...

Vermont has removed the bald eagle from its list of threatened and endangered species. Until 2008, when a bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) pair was documented raising its offspring along the...

Human-created structures like windmills and telephone poles are giving crows and ravens a place to nest, enabling them to colonize treeless areas where they prey on young, endangered Karoo dwarf...

Upon reviewing the implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act at a Feb. 9 meeting, members of the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on National Parks expressed concerns such as providing safe,...

The Australian government has declared that koalas in eastern Australia are endangered due to disease, habitat loss and other threats. The change in status applies to koalas along the country’s...

Lead poisoning is suppressing bald and golden eagle populations across the United States, researchers found, in what they say is the first study to show continent-wide, population-level impacts in the...

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. Since I was 5 or 6 years of old, I knew I wanted...