Category: TWS Wildlife News

March 27, 2018

TWS salutes women in wildlife biology careers: Holley Kline

The National Women’s History Project, founded in 1980, is a nonprofit educational organization committed to recognizing and celebrating women’s diverse and significant historical accomplishments. Each March, the group highlights the...

March 26, 2018

JWM: Camera traps help catch crop raiders and assess losses

In the sustainable-use reserves of Juruá, Brazil, communities can legally obtain fruits, nuts, fish and meat from the protected rainforest, but they chiefly subsist on cultivated cassava, a crop susceptible...

March 23, 2018

Wild horse and burro advisory board meeting postponed

The Bureau of Land Management has postponed a National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board meeting that was scheduled for March 27-28 in Salt Lake City. The meeting was postponed...

March 23, 2018

Combined efforts raise support for Recovering America’s Wildlife Act

Leaders from corporations, state wildlife agencies and NGOs traveled to Washington, D.C. earlier this month to urge their congressional delegations to support the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act (H.R. 4647). The...

March 22, 2018

Hive scales point to North Carolina bees’ nectar sources

A year ago, beekeepers throughout North Carolina outfitted their apiaries with hive scales provided by the Bayer Bee Care Program. In a growing initiative, these citizen scientists are weighing hives...

March 21, 2018

As agriculture intensifies, can biodiversity be preserved?

Converting wild lands to agriculture can negatively impact wildlife, but according to a recent study, intensifying agriculture on existing farmlands can also come with a cost in different regions and...

March 21, 2018

Warblers in trouble due to South American deforestation

Golden-winged warbler populations have plummeted in recent decades, even as conservationists have rushed to secure their breeding areas in the Appalachian and Great Lakes regions. Using cutting-edge trackers, researchers recently...

March 21, 2018

Zinke defends infrastructure, energy plans in hearings

Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appeared before the the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources and the the House Natural Resources Committee last week to testify on the department’s proposed...

March 20, 2018

Environmental group sues over walrus ESA decision

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal District Court for the District of Alaska, challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withdraw the Pacific...

March 19, 2018

TWS salutes women in wildlife biology careers: Kim Turner

The National Women’s History Project, founded in 1980, is a nonprofit educational organization committed to recognizing and celebrating women’s diverse and significant historical accomplishments. Each March, the group highlights the...