Clint Boal receives McAtee-Burger award
Clint Boal has received The Wildlife Society’s 2020 W.L. McAtee and G. V. Burger Award for Outstanding Service as an Associate Editor. The award recognizes the outstanding work of an...
AFWA elects Sara Parker Pauley as president
Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies members elected Sara Parker Pauley, director of the Missouri Department of Conservation, as the organization’s new president during its virtual annual meeting on Tuesday....
Conservation has saved 48 birds, mammals from extinction
Efforts to conserve species have resulted in saving at least 48 mammals and birds from extinction since the early 1990s. The rates of extinction would have been three or four...
CWD may complicate brucellosis control in Yellowstone elk
Wildlife managers who feed elk in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem to bolster the species’ numbers are facing a looming problem that may scuttle their effort to attract tourists and keep...
JWM: Gopher tortoise translocations deemed a “remarkable success”
Translocating gopher tortoises to a barrier island in Georgia has resulted in a “robust and secure” population two decades after major efforts. “If you do it right, [translocation] can actually...
Explore hundreds of sessions at TWS virtual conference
For only $125, you can get access to all of the educational content from the virtual TWS conference. Click here to register by midnight PT on Sunday, Sept. 20. From...
Cross-border cooperation nets feral swine boar
Cooperation is often the key to successful wildlife management, especially when the species crosses international borders. Feral swine, also wild pigs (Sus scrofa) in the United States are widely accepted...
Humans main reason for nearly 50 years of wildlife declines
Human activities have led to wildlife populations declining an average of 68% around the world between 1970 and 2016, a new report finds. The World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological...
TWS comments on proposed habitat definition
The proposed definitions of habitat recently offered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service are “too narrow and lacking appropriate consideration of the diverse ecological...
