Category: Around the Web

What to do with the Christmas tree now that the holiday season is over? In many coastal communities, Christmas trees are used to build up dunes, which make the coastlines...

Bushfires burning through Australia have left an estimated 1 billion animals dead. An initial estimate show the loss of 480 million mammals, birds and reptiles, based on population densities available...

The Wildlife Society invites you to submit proposals for education and training sessions at the 2020 Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky! The call is open now through March 13, 2020,...

As the Fortymile caribou herd populations booms, the Yukon government is allowing hunting of the herd for the first time since 1995. The government imposed a ban after the herd...

A new tool for wildlife managers has come from a unique source. Google Inc. has launched Wildlife Insights — an online portal designed to help wildlife managers around the world...

Researchers say they have sequenced the genome of every butterfly species in the United States and Canada — what they are calling a “complete butterfly continent.” Biologists at the University...

About 75 white deer occupy a former Army depot in New York’s Finger Lakes region. The deer are leucistic — they lack the normal pigment that makes other white-tailed deer...

Can virtual reality help researchers better protect wildlife habitats? Researchers at the Queensland University of Technology combined VR with aerial thermal imaging and ground surveys to build a statistical model...

Concerned that Americans were overharvesting birds, New York ornithologist Frank Chapman started the Christmas Bird Count in 1900 as an alternative to a Christmas tradition of hunting birds. This year...

Keeping an eye out for flying deer? That’s not so unusual for Utah wildlife biologists. Last month, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources airlifted dozens of mule deer (Odocoileus hemionus)...