Month: April 2022

As coyotes expand their range in the United States and gray foxes decline throughout the country, researchers wondered what spaces the two competitive species occupy. Over the past century, coyotes...

A fatal virus is killing freshwater turtles in Florida. Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission biologists say they have been studying the turtle fraservirus 1 (TFV1), formerly known as turtle...

In the mid-1900s, fishers were extirpated from Washington state, despite being found historically in various parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But high demand and prices for their pelts in...

President Biden recently proposed a 9% increase in total funding for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Fiscal Year 2023, including significant boosts for wildlife conservation and climate research program...

The Oregon Department of Justice has hired its first special prosecutor dedicated to enforcing anti-poaching laws. Jay Hall was hired in February as a new assistant attorney general in February....

The Biden Administration is requesting from Congress an overall 7% increase to the federal discretionary budget for Fiscal Year 2023, with targeted requests for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s...

Wildlife officials tranquilized and captured a mountain lion after it wandered into a Southern California shopping center. Rebecca Barboza, a wildlife biologist with the California Fish and Wildlife Department, told...

The ballot for The Wildlife Society’s 2022 elections includes nominees for the position of North Central representatives. See a previous article on candidates for TWS vice president. Additional nominees may...

While research on zoonotic diseases often focuses on how humans can contract them from wildlife, there’s less focus on how people can likewise spread them back to animals. Researchers recently...

After decades of absence in Montana, wolves began dispersing southward from Canada and ultimately recolonized the state in the 1980s. Translocations into Yellowstone National Park and Idaho in the mid-1990s...