Month: September 2022

When it comes to American barn owls, forget spring cleaning. The best time of year to clean out nest boxes to ready them for breeding pairs is the fall months...

Landowners don’t always welcome beavers on their properties. These ecosystem engineers may change the landscape in ways that landowners didn’t have in mind. But a growing group of backers of...

The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....

How do lead bullets compare with non-lead bullets, and what does that mean for wildlife? Lead fragments in gut piles left by hunters can be deadly to scavengers. For the...

The Wildlife Society’s Government Affairs programs welcomes its fall 2022 Joe Burns Memorial Wildlife Policy Intern, Madison Chudzik, to the team at TWS headquarters. Chudzik is a Chicago native who...

When North America’s rarest snake made an appearance in the Florida Keys for the first time in four years, it should have been good news for conservationists. But the snake...

One of the best things about Texas Tech University’s TWS student chapter is that its members often spend time out of the classroom and in the field. They work on...

A man has pleaded guilty for illegally importing reptiles into the United States after agents discovered more than 1,700 animals on him at the Mexican border. He was carrying 60...

Bats have proteins in their cells that are more pressured by coronaviruses than the same proteins in other mammals, researchers found. That information may help scientists understand more about potential...

Milkweed plants are vital for monarch butterflies and their larvae, providing nutrition to power their multi-generational migrations. Many of these plants have declined due to human development, prompting conservation organizations...