Category: TWS Wildlife News

Add these to your 12 days of Christmas list. Thirteen nudibranchs, seven spiders, three new scorpions and a shrew with a really big nose. These are some of the 85...

It’s the coqui frog’s (Eleutherodactylus coqui) unusually loud call that got on Hawaiians’ nerves after it was accidentally introduced from Puerto Rico in the 1980s. But new research shows the presence...

Current efforts to recover the red wolf (Canis rufus) in North Carolina are bound for failure, a team of researchers concluded, unless releases of captive wolves are resumed and takes...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has announced a review of both the policy and accompanying regulations surrounding the Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances (CCAA) program. CCAAs are a...

A group of researchers is calling for “extreme care” in managing trophy hunting after finding that the harvest of males that hunters worldwide choose could contribute to extinction in some...

The threatened piping plover (Charadrius melodus) nests on North American coastlines from Maine to North Carolina, where biologists fear it faces growing threats from rising sea levels associated with climate...

On December 7, the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations held a hearing titled “Transforming the Department of the Interior for the 21st Century.” The hearing...

Legislation that would dramatically alter the capacity of state fish and wildlife agencies to conserve and monitor at-risk species has been reintroduced to the US House of Representatives. Recovering America’s...

With their bright beaks and crescent-shaped eyes, puffins are adored by animal lovers, but the pint-sized seabirds have been something of a mystery to scientists. GPS trackers have been too...

While researchers still struggle to find precisely where the fungus that causes white-nose syndrome in North American bats originated, scientists recently found a few clues. In a new study published...