Category: TWS Wildlife News

Oil and gas exploration in Alaska’s North Slope would disturb fewer maternal denning polar bear mothers if start times are delayed during bear maternal denning periods and if den distribution...

Blueberries may play a more important role than previously believed in the diet of adult wolves and their pups. Biologists were tracking gray wolves (Canis lupus) near Voyageurs National Park...

Researchers working to translocate declining Texas horned lizards across parts of their former range are working to overcome challenges brought about by changes on the landscapes they once occupied. Texas...

A recent report from the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society found that the country is making important progress towards its conservation goals. In the report titled Government investments bring Canada...

Across the circumpolar north, some Arctic tundra birds, such as waterfowl, seem to be flourishing while others, like most shorebirds, are seeing their populations fall, according to new research spanning...

The Gaspésie herd is one of North America’s most endangered caribou populations, and logging around the fringes of the last remaining landscapes it occupies is giving predators an advantage over...

A distinct type of wolf has made special adaptations to live in the highest mountains in Nepal, Tibet and other parts of the Himalaya, researchers found, prompting them to suggest...

A threatened population of massasauga rattlesnakes in Canada is facing increasingly unstable conditions at the northern end of their range. Massasaugas (Sistrurus catenatus) in Canada are divided into two populations....

The Bureau of Land Management addressed a federal judge’s concerns regarding recent revisions to greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) conservation plans by publishing six draft supplemental environmental impact statements last week....

When the Boone and Crockett club formed in 1887, there was no such thing as a wildlife biologist, let alone a discipline of wildlife biology. Before the creation of the...