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March 20, 2019

Horse Rich & Dirt Poor

 Support a healthy ecological balance on your public lands! Explore the effects of America’s overpopulated wild horses and burros on wildlife, public lands, and ecosystems as you travel through...

March 20, 2019

Soaring with eagles to protect their habitat

As a Duke Energy helicopter hovered 500 feet over a bald eagle nest near Lake James, North Carolina, environmental scientist Misti Sporer peered through her binoculars. “Oooh, I’m seeing one...

March 20, 2019

Florida investigates mass softshell turtle die-off

The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is investigating why softshell turtle species are dying off in droves in the state. Approximately 100 dead turtles have been reported along the...

March 19, 2019

Tapping into indigenous knowledge to restore ecosystems

When researchers include knowledge from indigenous people — who rely on their environments for their livelihoods — ecological restoration programs have more success, a team of researchers argues in Restoration Ecology....

March 18, 2019

San Joaquin Valley Chapter hosts California condor field trip

This article originally appears in the San Joaquin Valley Chapter of The Wildlife Society’s March 2019 newsletter. Photos from the field trip are also included in the newsletter. The San Joaquin Valley...

March 18, 2019

1,700 wildlife species at risk for extinction by 2070

By 2070, 1,700 species of amphibians, birds and mammals are at risk for extinction as a result of human land-use shrinking their habitat. In a Nature Climate Change study, researchers combined...

March 15, 2019

Georgia TWS member earns award

Elizabeth Miller, a member-at-large on the Georgia TWS chapter board,has been selected as the 2018 Eastern Region Wildlife Biologist of the Year for the USDA Wildlife Services program. As the...

March 15, 2019

Video: Biologists record opossum-eating tarantula

As University of Michigan biologists were walking a night transect through the Amazon rainforest in Peru, they came across something they had never seen before. Spotting a tarantula the size...

March 15, 2019

Western Section to hold California botany workshop

The Western Section of The Wildlife Society will host a California Botany for Wildlifers workshop May 1 to 4 in Santa Barbara, California. The goal of this workshop is to equip...

March 14, 2019

Biologists grapple with handling wildlife for research

Handling wildlife is often a critical part in wildlife research. Biologists can’t collar a deer or radio tag a bird without it. But increasingly, researchers are seeing consequences to handling...