Category: TWS Wildlife News

Black bears moving back into northeast Oklahoma after extirpation in the early 1900s are leery of humans and development, largely preferring wild resources to anthropogenic ones. Recently, the bears have...

Detection devices using cameras and artificial intelligence algorithms can reduce eagle deaths around wind farms. “If [the device] calculates that the eagle is at risk of collision, it’ll shut down...

Little brown bats that survive the deadly white-nose syndrome have different genes than those that have died from it, researchers found, suggesting an evolutionary path for bats to survive a...

Inexpensive, store-bought GPS tracking devices work just as well as expensive professional gear for surveying tortoises that spend much of their time underground. University of Georgia researchers were looking for...

Leeches on sea turtles may play a role in the reptiles contracting a disease that causes tumors. Scientists already had documented saltwater leeches showing up on loggerheads (Caretta caretta) and...

The Biden administration is supporting an effort to build a road through Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. In 2019, then-Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt proposed a land exchange...

Florida recently approved new rules to manage the importation, breeding, and possession of invasive reptile species that pose a high risk to native ecosystems. In a February meeting, the Florida...

Representative Deb Haaland, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna, has become the first Native American to serve as Secretary of the Interior after a U.S. Senate vote Monday....

Researchers in Ontario are looking into whether a great wall could keep snakes from getting onto highways that can be lethal to them. Canada’s two populations of gray ratsnakes (Pantherophis...

More diverse communities of bees in Michigan, including both native and nonnative pollinators, result in less virus spread. Researchers had already known about a previous hypothesis called the Dilution Effect,...