Category: TWS Wildlife News

August 14, 2020

To protect endangered species, public lands aren’t enough

Even if all state and federal public lands in the United States were protected to benefit endangered species, more than half the country’s endangered species would still be in danger...

August 13, 2020

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposes habitat definition

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released its first-ever proposed definition of “habitat” to be used under the Endangered Species Act. Neither the ESA nor its implementing regulations include a definition...

August 12, 2020

USFWS to revisit Sonoran desert tortoise listing

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will revisit its 2015 decision not to list the Sonoran desert tortoise (Gopherus morafkai) under the Endangered Species Act as a condition of a...

August 12, 2020

Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance

It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...

August 11, 2020

JWM: Partially sedating deer doesn’t reduce stress

Biologists may use mild tranquilizers as a technique to calm large animals when they capture and handle them, but in a recent study, researchers found that for mule deer, partial...

August 11, 2020

Lead causes sublethal stress levels in condors

While California condors often die from exposure to lead and other contaminants, those that survive may still experience sublethal stress impacts. Researchers found that raptors that fed on marine mammal...

August 10, 2020

Climate change may push Northwest amphibians to the brink

By the 2080s, amphibians may be either too hot or too dehydrated to inhabit the mountains of the Pacific Northwest under projected climate change scenarios. In a study published in...

August 10, 2020

Pits dug for oil and gas may benefit beavers, wolverines

While the oil and gas industry causes a number of environmental disruptions in northern Alberta, some of the pits dug during development may provide denning habitat for beavers. But the...

August 7, 2020

Wild Cam: Road underpass doesn’t trap small prey

Tunnels designed to help wildlife pass safely under major highways do not appear to trap small animals in Quebec, as some researchers had speculated. While overpasses or underpasses built to...

August 7, 2020

USDA shares science career options with Navajo youth

Safeguarding Natural Heritage, a summer outreach program supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, helps high school students explore careers in plant and animal science, wildlife management and agribusiness within...