Category: TWS Wildlife News

November 18, 2020

Wolf sanctuary in Banff stops at the borders

Wolves enjoy a sanctuary in one of Canada’s most iconic national parks, but the area just outside the invisible borders is fraught with danger. “The park is not effectively protecting...

November 18, 2020

Senate releases Fiscal Year 2021 spending bills

The Senate released its 12 appropriations bills for Fiscal Year 2021 last week — only a month before the current continuing resolution is set to expire on Dec. 11, potentially...

November 17, 2020

TWS2020: Baboon conflict in Kenya

Conflicts between baboons and humans surrounding wildlife reserves in Kenya could be improved by creating better compensation programs for the poorest farmers affected by primate rates. “There’s evidence to say...

November 17, 2020

Can pikas survive climate change after all?

When Andrew Smith hikes with his wife in the Sierra Nevada, he often wears a T-shirt with a picture of a pika on it. The image of the charismatic, rabbit-like...

November 16, 2020

Spending time with people makes wildlife lose their fear

Whether animals are domesticated, kept in captivity or urbanized, they all lose their fear of humans, which may have implications for their conservation, researchers found. “We knew overall that interactions...

November 16, 2020

Seabirds deposit microplastics onto Arctic

Seabirds in the Arctic may be removing microplastics from the ocean and dumping them right back on land. “Colonial seabirds could be acting as an important source of microplastic concentration...

November 13, 2020

TWS2020: Hot on the slow trail of Panama sloths

They may seem lazy and move at the pace of 2020 election ballot counting, but sloths are pretty quick to react when they feel threatened. “They can bite and swing...

November 12, 2020

Agencies agree to do more to conserve Mexican spotted owl

Under an agreement finalized last week, Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida) populations in the Southwest will receive additional monitoring and conservation measures by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service...

November 12, 2020

Colorado prepares for wolf reintroduction

Wolves, largely absent from the Colorado landscape for more than a century, will roam the state again after voters narrowly approved a ballot issue to begin reintroduction efforts. “Definitely, people...

November 10, 2020

TWS2020: Dogs could herald zoonotic diseases in Amazon

Peru’s Manu National Park seems a long way from anywhere by the measure of just about anybody — except maybe the Matsigenka people who live in the region. Even TWS...