Author: Dana Kobilinsky

After deadly chronic wasting disease appeared amid cervids in Norway in 2016, government officials decided to implement a supplemental feeding ban throughout the entire country. That prompted a team of...

With help from the Monterey Bay Aquarium, threatened southern sea otters have made a comeback in Elkhorn Slough, an estuary in Central California. A recent study looking at how the...

Bat maternity colonies will pick up and change forest areas when the quality of their home trees deteriorate, according to new research. This discovery, the first to report the movement...

Despite some shortcomings, China’s recent Wildlife Protection Law provides a step in the right direction toward protecting species commonly poached for wildlife products, according to a recent analysis. Critics complain...

In September, University of North Dakota students in Susan Felege’s wildlife management class —  many of them TWS student chapter members — attended an 8-hour workshop presented by the Wildlife...

The Senate sent the president a continuing resolution to fund the government through Nov. 21 as the Sept. 30 end of the federal fiscal year approached. While the House passed...

A Pennsylvania man has received a six-month prison sentence for illegally trafficking diamondback terrapin turtles (Malaclemys terrapin). David Sommers, a 64-year-old man from Bucks County, just north of Philadelphia, told...

The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife considered several conservation bills last week, including one that would reauthorize the North American Wetlands Conservation Act. The “North American...

Researchers have created the most comprehensive map yet of the spread of the deadly chytrid fungus pathogen. The map lays out the locations and timeframes of appearances of the pathogen...

Shorebirds can weather destructive hurricanes, according to new research. A far bigger threat may be the gradual rise in sea levels. “It’s tempting to focus on the big visible events...