Geographical Location: Canada

October 30, 2020

The November 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...

September 28, 2020

TWS2020: Where do belugas spend their summers?

Beluga whales are likely choosing where to spend their summers in estuaries based on the prey available, researchers found. The western Hudson Bay is home to the largest known population...

September 22, 2020

Caribou numbers drop in Labrador as climate warms

Labrador is relatively free of the landscape changes that have caused declines in caribou populations in other parts of Canada and Alaska. But even there, caribou numbers are falling —...

September 14, 2020

Cross-border cooperation nets feral swine boar

Cooperation is often the key to successful wildlife management, especially when the species crosses international borders. Feral swine, also wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the United States are widely accepted...

August 25, 2020

COVID-19 takes mental toll on grad students

A pair of surveys show the psychological toll that the novel coronavirus outbreak is having on graduate students. A study in the United States found signs of depression have doubled...

August 12, 2020

Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance

It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...

August 10, 2020

Pits dug for oil and gas may benefit beavers, wolverines

While the oil and gas industry causes a number of environmental disruptions in northern Alberta, some of the pits dug during development may provide denning habitat for beavers. But the...

August 3, 2020

Wild Cam: Herring gulls steal food from hard-working puffins

The surrounding crowd was raucous, and the smell was even worse. But Kaylee Busniuk weathered the distractions like a champ, announcing the unfolding action in a detailed play-by-play. Just as...

July 27, 2020

Researchers study wolf howls by joining in the chorus

When Sarah Bassing and her colleagues wanted to know what parts of their study areas were occupied by wolves, they asked them. “We would go to these random sites and...

July 24, 2020

Agencies create new plan in response to declining caribou

Wildlife management agencies have developed a new strategy to halt the decline of barren-ground caribou populations across Canada’s Northwest Territories. Many barren-ground caribou (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) have seen large declines...