WSB: Fort Ancient people managed turkeys centuries ago
About 700 years ago, the Fort Ancient people flourished in parts of the Ohio River valley in Kentucky and its surrounding states. The Indigenous culture had a number of settlements...
Specialist bird species can’t track climate changes
Species evolve to be adapted to certain climates. As the climate changes, conservationists hope wildlife can move to places that are more appropriate for their needs. Since birds fly, they...
TWS celebrates a year of its webinar series
Some of the best ideas are generated simply when colleagues get together for a chat. That’s how The Wildlife Society’s webinar series was launched in May 2021. Past TWS president...
JWM: Trail cameras can help scientists estimate elephant density
At a shoulder height of nearly eight feet, an elephant may seem easy to spot. But these giant mammals are surprisingly cryptic in the forest ecosystems they occupy. As a...
Watch: Rare garden plants bring rare wildlife
Gardens often attract wildlife—whether the gardeners like it or not. And while people often don’t think about wildlife in cities, it turns out that urban gardens often attract more rare...
Australian report reveals environmental decline
Australia’s environment continues to decline and degrade due to factors including climate change and resource exploitation, according to the State of the Environment. The report, which occurs every five years,...
USFWS officially rescinds critical habitat rule
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has formally rescinded an Endangered Species Act rule promulgated by the Trump administration that changed the process for excluding areas from critical habitat designations....
Wildlife Vocalizations: Zeinab (Rose) Haidar
Wildlife Vocalizations is a collection of short personal perspectives from people in the field of wildlife sciences. My name is Zeinab, but I am best known as Rose. I have...
Coronavirus likely first spread to humans through wildlife market
COVID-19 almost certainly passed to humans in a Wuhan wildlife market at the end of 2019, according to a pair of new studies published in Science that used Chinese samples...
