Category: TWS Wildlife News

On May 26, the U.S. Department of the Interior filed a petition for a rehearing by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia concerning a decision to...

Protecting species and habitats for future generations is one of the main reasons Americans say they care about conservation, but for many families, getting outdoors with children and grandchildren isn’t...

Researchers recently looked back about a century ago to determine how sika deer made their way from their native home on Japan’s Yakushima Island to Dorchester County, Md., with the...

Before mega-fires like the 2013 Rim Fire burned large swaths of the landscape, Yosemite National Park had been setting smaller prescribed fires to regenerate the forest. In a study published...

The brown-headed cowbird (Molothrus ater) may not build nests or raise young, but it does seem to take steps to help its offspring’s survival. When it lays eggs in the...

Through an amendment to the Wild Animal and Plant Trade Regulations (WAPTR), Canada implemented a one-year import restriction on all salamander species within the order Caudata, effective May 12, 2017...

The recovery of an endangered butterfly in southern San Diego made history last year and is seeing early success. A team of biologists from the San Diego Zoo Global, the Service,...

Spring brings a multitude of color and warmth into the environment, and for me personally, a beekeeper, spring means active honey bees and the promise of another exciting year of...

Fencing just one side of a road cutting through wildlife habitat may minimize costs, but a new study from Ontario demonstrates that for reptiles, total fencing on both sides was...

According to most wildlife guides, harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) don’t typically range south of New Jersey. But recent research shows that during winter, these marine mammals regularly feed in an...