Category: TWS Wildlife News

Scientists who want to find out which frog populations are more likely to contract the deadly ranavirus, which affects amphibians and reptiles globally, recently turned to frogs’ skin. Studying European...

Using a new mouse model, researchers detected two unique strains of chronic wasting disease— one carried by elk and another by deer. “These findings suggest that CWD from elk and...

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered options for addressing the maintenance backlog on public lands during a hearing last week. The $19.4 billion public lands maintenance backlog has...

A bill requiring mandatory funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund was among one of eight pieces of legislation approved by the House Natural Resources Committee last week during...

Between the 1950s and 1960s, airplanes spread more than 6,000 tons of the pesticide DDT onto remote forests in New Brunswick, Canada during one of the largest insecticide spray programs...

What does a sea otter and half a car tire have in common? They both float to the same places. Researchers looking for a way to better track possible sea...

It was the end of October 2016 when the first reports of dead puffins and auklets began trickling in on the small Pribilof island of St. Paul. Local Aleuts had...

Efforts to limit wildfires on sagebrush landscapes may lead to unintended ecological consequences for species like sage-grouse, according to recent research. The Bureau of Land Management wanted to analyze the...

Privately owned forests in Costa Rica may support just as much bird biodiversity as protected forests, according to new research. Daniel Karp, an assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife,...

The House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Water, Oceans and Wildlife held a hearing June 13 to consider several new pieces of legislation, including a discussion draft of a bill...