Category: Around the Web

September 11, 2018

Wildlife Enthusiast Magazine honors TWS’ Wini Kessler

Wildlife Enthusiast Magazine recently became the first organization to officially establish a Hall of Fame to recognize women and their contributions to wildlife conservation. TWS’ own past president, Wini Kessler,...

September 7, 2018

Human dimensions research is for the birds

Conserving wildlife doesn’t work very well without taking humans into account. The North American Bird Conservation Initiative has launched a new program to highlight the advantages of bringing the social...

September 6, 2018

Red tide suspected in manatee deaths

The number of manatee deaths in Florida so far this year has exceeded last year’s total deaths, and officials say Red Tide is partly to blame. Biologists say the algal...

September 5, 2018

Are the fastest the slowest?

Are the fastest animals really the slowest? In a study in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers found some of the world’s fastest animals are actually some of the slowest when...

September 4, 2018

Is a more harmful python emerging in the Everglades?

Biologists studying invasive pythons in the Florida Everglades came across a disturbing finding. While most of the snakes they studied showed genetics of Burmese pythons (Python bivittatus), as expected, 13...

September 4, 2018

BLM plans wild horse population control research

The Bureau of Land Management has released an updated draft environmental assessment and a finding of no significant impact for plans to test a sterilization technique on wild horses (Equus...

August 31, 2018

Habitat islands can help bees amid intensive agriculture

Intensive agriculture isn’t necessarily bad for bees, researchers have found, as long as they have habitat islands with high plant biodiversity. In a study in Scientific Reports, biologists found bees’...

August 29, 2018

Viruses linked with seal strandings in New England

With an unusually high number of harbor seals (Phoca vitulina) washing up dead on beaches in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, preliminary tests have turned up indications of avian flu...

August 28, 2018

Airstrip to land at Louisiana refuge

Louisiana’s Department of Wildlife and Fisheries and the Grand Isle Independent Levee District are planning to build an airstrip on the Elmer’s Island Wildlife Refuge. Officials say the Grand Isle...

August 27, 2018

Scientist confirm textbook ‘Darwin’s moth’ lesson

The peppered moth (Biston betularia) became a textbook example of evolution in action. Known as “Darwin’s moth,” in its pale form it is camouflaged against lichen growing on tree bark....