Category: TWS Wildlife News

July 21, 2020

Air Force vies for more control of a Nevada refuge

A controversial provision in the Fiscal Year 2021 National Defense Authorization Act would grant the U.S. Air Force control over an additional 840,000 acres of the Desert National Wildlife Refuge...

July 21, 2020

More indigo snakes need to be released for reintroduction success

At the right angle, the second longest native snake in the United States and Canada is a shimmery black. But just blink and catch the orange-throated serpent in a different...

July 20, 2020

A check-up finds healthy sea turtles on Florida beach

For veterinary researcher Annie Page-Karjian, veterinary science and wildlife biology need to come together more often. Juno Beach, a six-mile stretch of coastline in Central Florida that is critical to...

July 17, 2020

Interior abandons reintroduction plans for North Cascade bears

The Department of the Interior has abandoned plans to reintroduce grizzly bears (Ursus arctos horribilis) into the North Cascades ecosystem. Interior Secretary David Bernhardt made the announcement last week during...

July 17, 2020

To manage carnivores and livestock, focus on ecology

When carnivores prey on livestock, managers have to navigate so many economic and cultural factors, it can be easy to forget that at the heart of it, an ecological dynamic...

July 16, 2020

House advances appropriations bills including wildlife funding

The House Appropriations Committee passed two appropriations bills last week that would provide small increases to many wildlife management and conservation programs. The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations advanced Fiscal...

July 15, 2020

DNA analysis can help e-rat-ication efforts on Haida Gwaii

Rats have wreaked havoc on seabird populations nesting in the remote Haida Gwaii archipelago off the northwest coast of British Columbia for centuries. First introduced by European ships in the...

July 15, 2020

How has the COVID-19 lockdown impacted wildlife?

Matthias Loretto had been studying common ravens in Yellowstone National Park — as well as in Austria, where he is from —  looking at how much ravens use wolf kills...

July 14, 2020

Waterfowl and working lands

This article originally appeared Ducks Unlimited magazine. From the Central Valley of California to the Chesapeake Bay, partnerships make it possible for Ducks Unlimited to conserve wetlands and fill the...

July 14, 2020

Thermal imaging reveals shrinking bison mechanisms

As bison take in more and more heat as a result of climate change, their bodies are becoming smaller and smaller, since they’re putting their energy toward keeping cool rather...