Category: TWS News

December 21, 2021

New TWS fellowship supports wildlife policy studies

The Wildlife Society has established a new fellowship to fund graduate students in pursuit of wildlife policy studies. The fellowship was made possible by a $250,000 donation from longtime TWS...

December 21, 2021

Wildlife Vocalizations: Julia Sunga

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. In the next 10 years, I want to see greater variety in the...

December 16, 2021

TWS supports incidental take permitting for MBTA protected birds

The Wildlife Society is encouraging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to move forward with plans to regulate the incidental take of species listed under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act....

December 15, 2021

Wildlife Vocalizations: Laurie Ferreras

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. If you asked me eight years ago, I did not know what lesson...

December 7, 2021

TWS’ Nick Wesdock honored for successful conferences amid COVID

Nick Wesdock, TWS’ business relations and conferences manager, has been recognized by Connect, an organization of event professionals and meeting planners, for his success in organizing annual TWS conferences through...

December 2, 2021

Wildlife Vocalizations: Krysten Zummo

Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. What’s the biggest lesson that life in wildlife conservation has taught me? There...

December 1, 2021

TWS supports proposed NEPA changes

The Wildlife Society recently submitted comments supporting proposed changes to National Environmental Policy Act regulations. The National Environmental Policy Act was originally put in place to obligate all federal agencies...

November 30, 2021

TWS joins Diversity Joint Venture Management Board

The Diversity Joint Venture for Conservation Careers selected TWS Professional Development Manager Jamila Blake as a new member of its management board. Blake will serve a three-year term on the...

November 29, 2021

Modeling behavioral changes in wildlife

When David Wolfson was conducting research on trumpeter swans in the Midwest, one of the swans was spotted leaving the territory just after being GPS-tagged. His team wondered how prevalent...

November 24, 2021

TWS2021: Carrion beetles carry on clues to the wildlife they eat

To survey cryptic species, it’s sometimes easier to detect their DNA than it is to find the animals themselves. Sometimes, researchers find DNA lingering in the water, on the ground...