TWS News

Researchers may have found a way to use genetics to determine how susceptible deer and other cervids are to contracting chronic wasting disease. This offers hope that captive herd owners...

The global COVID-19 pandemic has caused researchers to focus new attention on captive animals and the role they may play in spreading zoonotic diseases. But testing every animal in captivity,...

Recovering America’s Wildlife Act should be included in a future economic recovery package, says a letter signed by The Wildlife Society, over a dozen TWS organizational units, and 230 additional...

As wildlife managers work to translocate prairie dogs, they don’t always have the right tools to track how successful their efforts are. Researchers in Colorado recently examined the success of...

The Wildlife Society is announcing the recipients of this year’s awards. Unfortunately, the recipients won’t have their on-stage moment at our virtual annual conference this year, but we don’t want...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has signed a bill increasing penalties against illegal black bear (Ursus americanus) hunting. The new rules go into effect July 1, increasing the minimum fine from...

Tree plantations could provide suitable temporary habitat for koalas (Phascolarctos cinereus) in southwestern Australia, since the animals move around plantation-dominated landscape the same way as they would in other spaces....

The Senate approved the Great American Outdoors Act last week, which would fund the Land and Water Conservation Fund and provide money for federal maintenance of recreational infrastructure such as roads, trails, campsites and...

Researchers recently found a probiotic found in nature can help boreal toads fight the deadly chytrid fungus and are now testing it in the wild. “The use of microbes to...