Facemasks present concern for sea turtles
One toll of the COVID-19 pandemic for wildlife is the spread of facemasks in natural areas. In a routine fecal analysis of a dead green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) found...
Watch: Florida trail cameras catch wildlife in action
Trail cameras can get glimpses of wildlife that humans rarely see. In North Florida, trail cameras captured amazing footage of white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus), Florida black bears (Ursus americanus floridanus),...
Interior distributes $56M in state wildlife grants
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service awarded $56 million to states and territories through the State and Tribal Wildlife Grants Program for Fiscal Year 2022 to help conserve imperiled species...
The May/June issue of The Wildlife Professional
The Wildlife Professional is an exclusive benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published six times annually, the magazine presents timely research news and analysis of trends in the wildlife profession....
Can boxes help fight white-nose syndrome?
Conservationists coping with the spread of the deadly white-nose syndrome are finding innovative solutions by thinking inside the box. Wooden bat boxes work as artificial roosts for bats in areas...
TWS2021: Tracking hybrid elephants in Uganda
There aren’t many good places in the world to catch a machete to the leg, but hours of hiking into the midst of a Ugandan national park with “impenetrable” as...
Tribe’s dataset aids in estimating fishers
Fishers are not the easiest mammals to keep tabs on. But in Northern California, the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s wildlife division has been capturing and studying them since 2005, creating one...
JWM: Uncovering habitat preferences for an endangered warbler
For more than a century, naturalists have known that golden-cheeked warblers (Setophaga chrysoparia) breed in Ashe juniper woodlands in central Texas—wildlife biologists have used this knowledge to model the species’...
International endangered species conference approaching
The Convention on the International Trade in Endangered Species is holding its conference in Panama City, Panama in November to discuss the state of international wildlife issues and propose potential...
