Category: TWS Wildlife News

Shifting young Hawaiian monk seals from their whelping beaches to safer areas free of sharks and the threat of entanglement in marine debris may improve survival for the endangered marine...

The Department of the Interior is making progress in protecting winter range and migration corridors for big game across the West since a 2018 Secretarial Order was signed, a new...

As the Trump administration nears the end of its first 4-year term, a number of natural resource agencies still find themselves without permanent, Senate-confirmed leadership. For the first time since...

Street lights can change the amount and quality of sleep that pigeons and magpies get at night, affecting their energy in the morning. “Light pollution has been getting more and...

One fall when Josée Rousseau was banding birds as a field technician at a station in Northern California, she was surprised to capture rufous hummingbirds. The species migrates from breeding...

A female black bear with a few irresistibility cute little cubs trailing behind her is an iconic summer scene in the north woods of Wisconsin.  But when the cuteness leads...

Michael Gutzmer, principal and owner of New Century Environmental, LLC, has received TWS’ Special Recognition Service Award. The award honors any person or group making an outstanding contribution to the...

Seabird poop is so rich in nutrients, its annual value to ecosystems — and to people — makes up nearly half a billion dollars, researchers found. But as seabird numbers...

In response to legislation passed last year, the Department of the Interior released a plan to decrease the spread of invasive species by building on existing plans, promoting partnerships, raising...

People usually think of immune responses as helping bodies recover from diseases. But recent research showed the opposite for at least one frog species facing a deadly amphibian fungus. Lowland...