Coming across a Northern pine snake (Pituophis melanoleucus) is a pretty rare event, so it’s easy to understand wildlife enthusiast Christian Cave’s excitement when he came across one in southern Georgia. Plenty of other people …
While a lot of wildlife research often requires vegetation surveys or other nutrition-related information, many wildlifers don’t have the background or experience to know how to collect, analyze and interpret this type of data. That’s …
The Wildlife Society’s governing Council has recently released updated position statements on two issues of importance to wildlife professionals. The updated position statements on Climate Change, Sustainability, and Wildlife as well as Rangeland Livestock Grazing …
Avoid tokenism. Be collaborative. Those are some of the suggestions Colombian biologist Dolors Armenteras offers for scientific partnerships involving researchers from both high- and low-income nations. “Imbalances can result in extractive partnerships where benefits flow …
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently announced Endangered Species Act protections for two distinct population segments of the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), a grassland bird that has been the focus of conservation efforts …
Participants in an international conference on wildlife trade agreed to new protections for more than 500 species of animals and plants. The new species listed by the parties to the Convention on International Trade in …
When translocated short distances, many crocodiles waste no time returning to the areas where people perceived them as problems in the first place. “Pretty much right away, [the crocodiles] were like ‘I’ve got to move—this …
Alaska wildlife officials have euthanized a black bear (Ursus americanus) cub after it became ill with avian flu. Officials believe the bear likely ate a bird that died from the virus. The bear, which was …
Watch out, golden eagles—a new scavenger is moving into southern Utah, and it might affect your meal ticket. California condors were extirpated from Utah, and from most of their range in the U.S., in the …
California’s Dungeness crab season will be delayed for the fourth year in a row to protect humpback whales. The whales can become trapped in the lines attached to commercial crab traps as they move through …
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