Category: TWS Wildlife News

Marsh rice rats may be good indicators of a properly restored wetland ecosystem in the Florida Everglades. The rats’ presence can tell land managers whether water management plans are working...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined that the interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) has recovered and therefore will be removed from the list of threatened and endangered...

The fungus that causes white-nose syndrome thrives in warmer areas — the same temperatures that little brown bats prefer to hibernate in. That can create an “ecological trap” for the...

Hearing birds singing, and sometimes perceiving high biodiversity, may increase people’s well-being. Past research had looked at human connections to nature in artificial lab settings or conducting internet surveys about...

It may come as a shock, but electrifying fake seabird eggs and filling them with toxins are both strategies that help protect imperiled seabirds from crows. Fish crows (Corvus ossifragus)...

The Bureau of Land Management officially opened more of the National Petroleum Reserve-Alaska to oil and gas development earlier this month, releasing the final Integrated Activity Plan for the reserve....

A new special permit will allow state and federally recognized tribal wildlife agencies in the contiguous United States to lethally control cormorants. In late December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife...

It was February 1999, and a pack of five wolves had just made their way into the National Elk Refuge in northwest Wyoming. The new pack, which had moved south...

When scientists reintroduce animals to augment populations, they often take individuals from areas close to the reintroduction site. “There’s this idea to not move animals outside of their native population...

For years, many believed the mute coqui, a small endangered frog endemic to the Virgin Islands, was aptly named. On an island full of chirping tree frog species like the...