Category: TWS Wildlife News

August 25, 2016

Register now for the 2017 Climate Academy

Registration is now open for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Climate Academy, a collaborative effort between state and federal agencies as well as The Wildlife Society and other non-profit...

August 19, 2016

Partners in Flight releases 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan

Partners in Flight recently released their 2016 Landbird Conservation Plan, presenting vulnerability assessments for bird species across Canada and the United States. Partners in Flight (PIF) is a network of...

August 18, 2016

JWM study: The rise and fall of New Jersey’s Canada geese

While researchers have long followed the rapid increase and decline of New Jersey’s resident Canada geese populations, recent research looking at data from the last few decades has been able...

August 18, 2016

Cardinals may protect Atlanta residents from West Nile virus

In Atlanta, Georgia, West Nile virus (WNV) is rampant — but only in birds. Humans in the area are relatively free of the mosquito-borne illness, and they may have cardinals...

August 17, 2016

When privet is removed, native plants and pollinators return

Forests infested with privet invoke a kind of despair in people attuned to the problem of invasive plants. Privet invades a forest quickly, sprawling across the understory and growing into...

August 17, 2016

How bioenergy demand could affect wildlife habitat

Sweet sorghum, switchgrass and trees are among some of the products that are used as fuel for bioenergy, or renewable energy produced by living organisms. In a recent study published...

August 12, 2016

WSB study: The sound of female elephants could drive away crop-raiding males

When a bull elephant decides to eat a farmer’s crops, no puny human voice is likely to change its mind. But the voices of female elephants are a different matter,...

August 10, 2016

A dogged last defense against brown tree snakes

On a late June morning, biological science technician Joaquin Benavente and his partner Bonnie started a routine day at the U.S. Navy processing center on Guam, with 16 outbound vehicles...

August 9, 2016

USFWS to end predator control on Alaskan refuges

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service finalized a rule on Aug. 5 that will prohibit non-subsistence predator control measures on all Alaskan National Wildlife Refuges. The rule overrides state regulations...

August 5, 2016

Migratory birds’ chromosomes reveal stress

Researchers recently discovered some differences between the DNA of migratory and resident birds that can provide insight into the stresses that migratory birds face from their journey. As part of...