Month: June 2022

Joshua Tree National Park is temporarily closing a popular hiking trail to make it easier for bighorn sheep to get to water. The trail leads to Fortynine Palms Oasis, a...

The Wildlife Society is excited to announce the Leadership Institute Class of 2022. While a class was not selected in 2021, TWS’ flagship leadership program is back this year with...

Concerns about monarch butterfly populations have made them contenders for Endangered Species Act protections, but a new study contradicts those fears, finding that monarchs are not in as much trouble...

Deep in the forests of India lives a colorful gecko species that only recently revealed its true identity. Meet Eublepharis pictus, also known as the painted leopard gecko. In 2017,...

Urban wildlife have some things in common with their human neighbors. Not only do they prowl the same streets—and maybe eat the same pizza. The life inside them—the microbes that...

Birds and farmers don’t always get along, but on California’s Central Coast, researchers found that strawberry farmers can benefit birds while taking advantage of pest removal and other ecosystem services...

When owners decide to set their goldfish free of the confines of the fish bowl, they could be letting loose what researchers call an ecological catastrophe for native biodiversity. Biologists...

Increasing rates of vaccination among wildlife managers and mask use has likely reduced the risk of transmission of coronavirus from humans to the bats they work with. Bats can carry...

About 48% of bird species around the world are facing population declines, according to a new global analysis. The finding comes after a 2019 study showing nearly 3 billion breeding...

Scientists are concerned by how much a highly infectious strain of avian flu has struck birds in the wild. While the deadly H5N1 strain has infected millions of birds in...