World Trade Center kills hundreds of birds at night
The recent appearance of hundreds of birds killed from striking the World Trade Center in New York City has raised new concerns about the effects of artificial lights at night....
USFWS to review status of western wolves
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will be completing a comprehensive status review of the gray wolf in the western U.S. after its delisting from the federal Endangered Species Act...
BLM headquarters moving back to D.C.
The Bureau of Land Management’s headquarters will be moving back to Washington, D.C., Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced to agency staff last week. In August 2020, the agency’s headquarters...
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JWM: Water holes could be pathogen hotspots for Cape buffalo
Cape buffalo could be contracting pathogens when they gather at water holes during the dry season in South Africa’s Kruger National Park, and biologists worry the problem will worsen with...
USFWS to streamline incidental take permits for eagles
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering changing the permitting regulations for the incidental take of bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and golden eagles to streamline the process, making it straightforward and...
TWS member Tony Wasley elected AFWA president
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies members have elected Nevada Department of Wildlife Director Tony Wasley as the organization’s new president. The announcement came during AFWA’s 111th Annual Meeting in...
DOI to revisit greater sage-grouse management plans
The U.S. Department of Interior is formally revisiting greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management plans this fall. Within the next 60 days, the Bureau of Land Management will file a public...
Mountain goat gores grizzly to death in British Columbia
In a surprising twist, a hiker has discovered evidence of a mountain goat (Oreamnos americanus) goring a grizzly bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) to death in Yoho National Park in British...
For many taxa, museum specimens can help fill in research holes
In 2019, researchers had been looking at the abundance of native and non-native ant species in Florida. Examining a museum dataset spanning 60 years of collections, they found that non-native...
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