TWS president, president-elect increase international presence
As members of the International Union of Game Biologists gathered for its congress in Budapest last month, they heard a message from TWS President Carol Chambers on the importance of...
Watch: For a declining shorebird, a South Carolina island is a crucial refuge
Early one morning in the spring of 2014, Felicia Sanders, a biologist with the South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, was out on Deveaux Bank, a small island 20 miles...
Biodiversity declining in fact—and in fiction
As species go extinct, they also seem to show up less in the novels we read. Researchers tapped into a digital dataset of works of fiction written in English between...
Isotope mapping sheds light onto monarch journeys
Pre-COVID-19 pandemic, University of Ottawa biology student Megan Reich enjoyed the road trip of a lifetime, crisscrossing the East Coast of the United States in search of milkweed. The plant...
Building a student-motivated chapter
When Cary Chevalier was earning his bachelor’s degree at Arizona State University, he was a member of the student chapter of The Wildlife Society, but it didn’t have much faculty...
Watch: Vampire bats hunt with their ‘friends’
Vampire bats that had been in captivity together form bonds, so much so, that they continue to hunt together when released into the wild. Researchers found this out by attaching...
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Wild Cam: Orcas to blame for Aleutian sea otter collapse
Many people thought the sea otter populations around the Aleutian Archipelago were the model of the species’ success. For decades, populations up and down the Pacific Coast of North America...
Arctic predators drive rodent population cycles
Voles and lemmings are some of the most populous mammals in the Arctic, and their populations go through cycles that rise and fall. But why? That’s long been a mystery...
USFWS plans to delist 23 extinct species
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey has proposed removing 23 extinct species from the federal Endangered Species Act. Many of these species, like a bird called the Kauai ʻakialoa (Akialoa stejnegeri),...
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