Isle Royale wolves increase while moose decline
After a year of translocation efforts in Isle Royale National Park, the island’s wolf population is flourishing again, with numbers around their historical levels. Between October 2018 and September 2019,...
Crawfish frogs are declining in Arkansas
Large amounts of crawfish frogs seemed to be dying, and researchers weren’t sure why. Chelsea Kross, a quantitative ecologist at the Illinois Natural History Museum, and her colleagues had conducted...
TWS conference event shares the stories behind the science
For scientists trained to be objective, it can be a challenge to inject their own opinions about their research. It can be even harder to think about their feelings about...
Wild Cam: Ethiopian vulture decline causes ecosystem shift
As gruesome as they may appear, vultures provide a vital ecosystem service. If they didn’t specialize in tearing into carcasses, the diseases and parasites that inhabit rotting flesh could hang...
The ESA fails due to slow listing process
A new analysis on the population of species listed under the Endangered Species Act reveals shortcomings in the way that the United States manages at-risk wildlife. The new study found...
APHIS invests $9M to fight chronic wasting disease
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has announced a $9.4 million injection of funds to manage the spread of chronic wasting disease—an illness that’s deadly...
Report shows U.S. bird declines in all habitat types—except for one
More than half of U.S. bird species are declining, with the steepest losses among grassland birds and shorebirds, according to a newly released report. Seventy species are particularly in peril—they...
Anti-fungal treatment improves frog survival
Treating frogs in one of their most vulnerable moments may help them survive the onslaught of a deadly fungal disease. Cascades frogs are one of many species whose populations have...
WSB: Furbearer traps can sever grizzly toes
When Clayton Lamb was trapping grizzly bears for a research project to understand bear survival and movement in southeast British Columbia, he noticed that some bears were missing their toes....
