North Carolina thankful to send more turkeys to Texas
In 2018, multiple North Carolina airports began reporting Eastern wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) presence and damage. Airports reported that wild turkeys were no longer ...
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Wildlife is right in your backyard — literally
Some wildlife in North Carolina is more abundant in suburban backyards than in nearby forests, and some of these yards even display more species richness. In 2016, ...
JWM: Lightning strike points to feral horses’ toll
Although it was lonely being by himself in the middle of the Argentine Pampas, the last thing Alberto Scorolli wanted was to meet a friend. He’d been hiking ...
Land use, climate increasingly restrict wildlife home ranges
Throughout the world, the average wildlife species has lost 18% of its natural range due to land use and climate change, researchers found. About 16% of species ...
WSB: A new raccoon hairdo can help researchers with identification
When Gregory Geller was developing ways to protect turtle nests, he paid a lot of mind to keeping out predators like raccoons. He designed electric fences, and he ...
JWM: Chamois survival drops due to climate change
Populations of chamois in the Italian Alps are decreasing due to the ongoing effects of climate change. “The ratio of yearlings to adult females was strongly ...
How is a changing Arctic affecting wildlife movement?
Long-term wildlife movement studies in the Arctic are hard to come by. That’s because they can be expensive, requiring tags that communicate through satellite ...
Great American Outdoors Act implementation begins — slowly
Implementation of the Great American Outdoors Act is off to a rocky start, with the administration missing a deadline to submit to Congress a list of funding for ...
Wolf sanctuary in Banff stops at the borders
Wolves enjoy a sanctuary in one of Canada’s most iconic national parks, but the area just outside the invisible borders is fraught with danger. “The park is not ...