Month: December 2022

In 2019 and again in 2020, swarms of painted lady butterflies irrupted in the millions in Southern California. People couldn’t drive their cars without the insects crashing into their vehicles’...

The Recovering America’s Wildlife Act met its end in Congress on Monday night after legislators left it out of the omnibus spending bill. Despite broad bipartisan support that put it...

The United Nations Biodiversity Conference in Montreal has resulted in an agreement for participating nations to protect 30% of the planet by 2030. The conference, known also as Cop15, intends...

When researchers were studying fisher survival and reproduction in New York state using radio collars, they noticed individuals that were otherwise healthy had died from relatively minor injuries or failed...

The Santa Cruz River hasn’t been a reliable source of water since European settlers changed the sustainable water use patterns of Indigenous people like the Hohokam in the late 1800s....

When a 19-year-old woman was killed by coyotes in a Canadian park in 2009, she became the only known coyote attack fatality in North America. What prompted coyotes to behave...

Federal officials are preparing to remove four dams along the Klamath River to improve the watershed along the California-Oregon state line. “Clean water, healthy forests and fertile land made the...

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

Hanging out of airplanes with net launchers. Climbing trees to peer into bird nests. Crawling into bear dens.  Wildlife biologists get to do some pretty cool things. But their envy-invoking...

The Wildlife Society recently joined partners in endorsing the Northern American Grasslands Conservation Act (S.4639), legislation that would help conserve U.S. grassland ecosystems. The bill would establish a North American...