Category: TWS Wildlife News

May 30, 2019

House bill would increase wildlife funding, defund reorganization

As the Senate begins its process of drafting its Fiscal Year 2020 spending bills, the House is moving forward with its slate of appropriations bills and several are ready for...

May 29, 2019

Wild Cam: Tracking the rewilding of a Malawi park

Wildlife managers with the U.S. Forest Service are partnering with international colleagues in Malawi to track the revitalization of wildlife decimated by poaching. But a nongovernmental organization based in South...

May 29, 2019

Bill introduced to establish a system of wildlife corridors

The Wildlife Corridors Conservation Act of 2019 (S. 1499/H.R. 2795) was introduced last week in both the House and Senate, which would establish a national system of wildlife corridors to...

May 28, 2019

Watch: Spiders risk lives to attract cannibalistic mates

It’s never easy to find the right partner. But male wolf spiders face the extra challenge of getting eaten by predators while making their elaborate courtship bids to potential mates....

May 24, 2019

Satellite images can track remote sea turtle nests

When tracking the nesting habits of turtles that circumnavigate the globe, it’s sometimes necessary to take the long view. Researchers are tapping into satellite images to get an accurate reading...

May 24, 2019

New canine distemper virus strain found in New England

In December 2016, Patrick Tate, a wildlife biologist with the state of New Hampshire Fish and Game, noticed a fisher (Martes pennanti) breathing heavily under a tree. When he approached...

May 23, 2019

American bumblebee declines in Canada

When the once common rusty-patched (Bombus affinis) bumblebee disappeared from Canada by the early 2000s, researchers became worried. What would this mean for less common bumblebee species? “This raised the...

May 23, 2019

House Interior appropriations bill clears first hurdle

The appropriations bill that includes programs in the Department of the Interior, U.S. Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency was advanced last week by the House Interior and Environment...

May 22, 2019

With warm weather, mourning cloak emerges

Everyone has heard the saying “a picture’s worth a thousand words,” but what a picture does not provide is the backstory — details about the who, what, where, when and...

May 21, 2019

House committee considers grizzly take legislation

The House Natural Resources committee is considering an act that would prohibit grizzly bear hunting or other take of grizzlies in the contiguous United States where they aren’t already listed...