Category: TWS News

Jim Heffelfinger (center), poses with TWS CEO Ed Arnett (left) and Casey Stemler from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (right) after receiving the Dallas Safari Club’s Conservation Trailblazer Award.
January 24, 2023

Jim Heffelfinger wins two conservation awards

TWS member Jim Heffelfinger has won two awards commemorating a career of wildlife research and conservation. Heffelfinger, wildlife science coordinator with the Arizona Game and Fish Department, won The Dallas...

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January 20, 2023

Research on human impact on Appalachian songbirds earns student award

As climate and land use changes take place throughout the Appalachians, researchers are watching how different species will react. Hannah Clipp, a PhD candidate at the West Virginia Cooperative Fish...

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January 18, 2023

Shane Mahoney earns conservation education award

The Dallas Safari Club Foundation has named TWS member Shane Mahoney the inaugural winner of its education award. Mahoney is the founder and CEO of Conservation Visions, an initiative dedicated...

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January 12, 2023

Apply now for TWS Leadership Institute Class of 2023

The Wildlife Society’s flagship leadership training program, the Leadership Institute, is now accepting applications for the Class of 2023. The deadline to submit applications is March 12 by 11:59 p.m....

January 5, 2023

Best Student Poster explores the role of ticks in CWD transmission

As chronic wasting disease continues to spread through cervid populations in North America, scientists still don’t know exactly how the disease is spreading so rapidly and broadly. But when Heather...

January 3, 2023

Wildlife Vocalizations: Abi Fergus

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. We need swift change as the world is losing biodiversity and the Indigenous...

December 29, 2022

The January issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

December 29, 2022

Wildlife Vocalizations: Patience Knight

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. One of the most important and memorable statements one of my wildlife/range management...

December 28, 2022

These are the top 10 wildlife stories of 2022

The past year has seen plenty of important developments and groundbreaking research for wildlife, plus a few strange tales along the way. Here are the most read stories on wildlife.org...

December 21, 2022

Butterfly’s diverse diet may help it survive a changing world

In 2019 and again in 2020, swarms of painted lady butterflies irrupted in the millions in Southern California. People couldn’t drive their cars without the insects crashing into their vehicles’...