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Retired wildlife leaders decry firings as ‘existential threat’

Former leaders warn that firings will cause widespread and long-lasting consequences for wildlife management across North America

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April 18, 2025

TWS2024: Invasive cedar impedes Galapagos tortoise migration

Giant reptiles navigate around toxic forests during their seasonal movements

April 18, 2025

Watch: Elephants huddle protectively as earthquake rumbles

A video in San Diego Zoo Safari Park captured the behavior of five African savanna elephants

April 17, 2025

Alaska predator control deemed unconstitutional

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game killed about 200 bears to boost a struggling caribou herd

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January 10, 2023

2023 Omnibus: How conservation programming fared

In the Fiscal Year 2023 appropriations package Congress passed in late December, minor funding increases were provided to wildlife programs. The spending package sets funding levels for all federal discretionary...

December 22, 2022

Colorado wolf reintroduction proposal released

Two years after Ballot Initiative 114 passed, mandating the reintroduction of the gray wolf (Canis lupis) to Colorado, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) has now released a proposal...

December 15, 2022

TWS endorses grasslands conservation effort

The Wildlife Society recently joined partners in endorsing the Northern American Grasslands Conservation Act (S.4639), legislation that would help conserve U.S. grassland ecosystems. The bill would establish a North American...

December 5, 2022

Northern long-eared bat reclassified as endangered under ESA

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently strengthened Endangered Species Act protections for the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), upgrading the species from a threatened to endangered status. The species,...

December 1, 2022

TWS updates positions statements on climate change and grazing

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...

November 30, 2022

USFWS finalizes ESA protections for lesser prairie chicken

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...

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November 22, 2022

TWS Conservation Affairs Network tackles policy issues

The Wildlife Society’s Conservation Affairs Network (CAN) met during The Wildlife Society’s annual conference in Spokane, Washington to discuss organization unit engagement in policy issues, spanning from the Recovering America’s...

November 2, 2022

Emperor penguin gains Endangered Species Act protections

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has finalized plans to list the emperor penguin (Aptenodytes forsteri) as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. The final rule cited the substantial risk...

October 26, 2022

TWS submits testimony on wild horse and burro management

In written testimony to the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, which met in early October, The Wildlife Society stressed the need for reducing populations of federally managed, free-roaming...