Category: TWS Wildlife News

Tracking baby sea turtles across vast expanses of ocean can help conservationists determine where sea turtles at risk may face danger from fishing operations or other disturbances. “Clearly, you want...

About a third of plant and animal species around the world could be extinct within 50 years due to climate change, according to a study by University of Arizona biologists....

Different species of bumble bees in the Sierra Nevada select different types of flowers, according to new research, which has conservation implications for promoting the growth of pollinator populations. In...

A federal judge last week ruled on a lawsuit over the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision to list the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) as threatened rather than...

Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposed rule reducing the ability of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act to prevent actions that injure or kill native birds....

As invasive barred owls encroach on California spotted owl habitat in the Sierra Nevada, researchers say there’s a narrow window to deal with them before their populations explode. Their growing...

Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging habitat around them by altering the availability of...

Cryo-freezing amphibian sperm can result in smaller tadpoles and toads — a discovery that may have implications for future captive populations intended for eventual reintroduction. Comparing toads raised through cryo-freezing...

One hundred years ago, pronghorn roamed the Sonoran Desert in what is now the borderlands between Southern California and northern Baja California in Mexico. Today, they are gone from the...

Toxic bait cartridges automatically fired from helicopters may be the first successful way to efficiently reduce numbers of invasive brown tree snakes at the landscape scale on the island of...