Month: July 2022

At a shoulder height of nearly eight feet, an elephant may seem easy to spot. But these giant mammals are surprisingly cryptic in the forest ecosystems they occupy. As a...

Gardens often attract wildlife—whether the gardeners like it or not. And while people often don’t think about wildlife in cities, it turns out that urban gardens often attract more rare...

Australia’s environment continues to decline and degrade due to factors including climate change and resource exploitation, according to the State of the Environment. The report, which occurs every five years,...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has formally rescinded an Endangered Species Act rule promulgated by the Trump administration that changed the process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations....

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. My name is Zeinab, but I am best known as Rose. I have...

COVID-19 almost certainly passed to humans in a Wuhan wildlife market at the end of 2019, according to a pair of new studies published in Science that used Chinese samples...

It’s hard to imagine Kurt VerCauteren’s work ever seeming more relevant than now. As project leader and supervisory research wildlife biologist with USDA Wildlife Service’s National Wildlife Research Center, VerCauteren...

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

Mountain waterways may become refuges for salamanders after wildfires burn through parts of the Appalachian Mountains. “These riparian habitats are providing really important shelter areas for some of these species,...

Shearwaters have been washing up on the beach this summer in states along the East Coast of the U.S. Wildlife rehabilitation centers reported great shearwaters (Puffinus gravis) washing up on...