Category: TWS Wildlife News

September 22, 2020

Caribou numbers drop in Labrador as climate warms

Labrador is relatively free of the landscape changes that have caused declines in caribou populations in other parts of Canada and Alaska. But even there, caribou numbers are falling —...

September 21, 2020

JWM: Cormorant control reduces fish farm predation

Cormorants spend less time eating catfish at aquaculture farms on the lower Mississippi River floodplain in years when lethal control measures are permitted. “This is good evidence that having lethal...

September 18, 2020

Loggerhead behavior changes during hurricanes

Nobody wishes for a hurricane, but for researchers studying loggerhead sea turtles in the Mid-Atlantic Bight — a coastal region running from Massachusetts to North Carolina — Hurricane Irene’s East...

September 17, 2020

Virtual conference offers chances to network

For only $125, you can get access to all of the educational content from the virtual TWS conference. Click here to register by midnight PT on Sunday, Sept. 20. Some of...

September 17, 2020

USFWS released proposal to clarify critical habitat designations

The process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations for threatened and endangered species is getting an update through a new proposed regulation released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

September 17, 2020

Senate Committee considers delisting grizzlies

Under legislation considered last week by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, the Department of the Interior would be required to remove the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem population of grizzly...

September 16, 2020

In Black Mammalogists Week, tackling inclusion in new taxa

After TWS member Rhiannon Kirton, became involved in Black Birders Week, she noticed a lot of conversations happening on Twitter. What caught her eye in particular was people’s interests in...

September 15, 2020

CWD may complicate brucellosis control in Yellowstone elk

Wildlife managers who feed elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to bolster the species’ numbers are facing a looming problem that may scuttle their effort to attract tourists and keep...

September 15, 2020

JWM: Gopher tortoise translocations deemed a “remarkable success”

Translocating gopher tortoises to a barrier island in Georgia has resulted in a “robust and secure” population two decades after major efforts. “If you do it right, [translocation] can actually...

September 14, 2020

Cross-border cooperation nets feral swine boar

Cooperation is often the key to successful wildlife management, especially when the species crosses international borders. Feral swine, also wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the United States are widely accepted...