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November 11, 2022

Amid war, bat rescue continues in Ukraine

As Russian forces advanced this summer on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s second-largest city, the façade of an eight-story apartment building in the Saltivka district suffered heavy damages from shelling, as did many...

November 10, 2022

New rule restricts outdoor lighting in Hawaii to help birds

New legislation in Hawaii will restrict the amount of outdoor lighting residents can use in Maui in an attempt to lower the amount of bird strikes against buildings. While the...

November 9, 2022

Hundreds of animals die in Kenya’s severe drought

Kenya’s worst drought in decades is taking its toll on the country’s famous wildlife. A recent report found that hundreds of animals, including elephants and endangered Grévy’s zebras have died...

November 8, 2022

TWS2022: TWS continues to ‘invest in wildlife professionals’

At the first in-person conference in three years, The Wildlife Society leadership reflected on the changes that have taken place since the Society had last met together—a period that brought...

November 7, 2022

Warming climate, shrinking birds

As the climate warms, North American birds are becoming smaller. In a study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, researchers from the University of California, Los Angeles found that over...

November 4, 2022

Ales and allies

As we approach our first in-person Annual Conference of The Wildlife Society after three years apart, this is a great opportunity to reemphasize our collective responsibility and commitment as wildlife...

November 4, 2022

The November/December issue of The Wildlife Professional

The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....

November 3, 2022

Shipped monarchs may give populations a boost

A butterfly nonprofit is paying to ship 12 monarch butterflies from Wisconsin to Texas, where they hope the insects will migrate to Mexico. Friends of Butterfly Gardens Inc. is funding...

November 2, 2022

Why is the current bird flu so deadly?

What’s making the latest strain of bird flu so deadly? Avian influenza used to mostly affect poultry, and while it continues to decimate poultry populations around the world, the latest...

November 1, 2022

Georgia effort seeks to boost gopher frogs

Gopher frogs have been slowly disappearing from Georgia’s southern pinelands for decades. Now, biologists are working to replenish the species. State biologists have been collecting egg masses from the few...