Category: TWS Wildlife News

Site visits are critical to helping scientists learn more about species and their habitats.  The trips often take them into areas most people do not have a chance to explore,...

In the 25 years since the Northwest Forest Plan was initiated, bird species still are not recovering, researchers found, despite sweeping protections the plan brought to old-growth forests in Washington,...

New legislation to limit trapping on state and federal public lands in New Mexico has been advanced by the state legislature’s House Energy & Natural Resources Committee. The Wildlife Protection...

States are passing more legislation relating to pollinator conservation than the federal government, researchers found, but they say more laws are needed. In a study published in Environmental Science and Policy,...

On Feb. 13, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held on a hearing on The Invasive Species Threat: Protecting Wildlife, Public Health and Infrastructure. After opening statements by Sen....

It’s not unusual for sea turtles to turn up cold-stunned and stranded on Cape Cod beaches. As they migrate south from the Gulf of Maine to the Gulf of Mexico...

Picking up after its debates on the legislation package in December, the Senate passed the Natural Resources Management Act (S. 47). This bipartisan package contains more than 100 different bills...

Many well-known species like polar bears (Ursus maritimus) face immediate threats from climate change. But some wildlife, like populations of coastal cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus clarkii) and coastal giant salamanders (Dicamptodon...

Throughout rural Illinois, more than 140,000 acres of farmland have been conserved for wildlife. That’s about as much as one-third the acreage of public land in the state. Like similar...

Could species be vulnerable to the effects of climate change at temperatures lower than biologists currently think? That’s the question a team of scientists is asking in a recent opinion in...