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May 15, 2020

2020 TWS Wildlife Publication Awards Committee shortlists announced

The 2020 Wildlife Publication Awards Committee has named five books to shortlists in the authored and edited book categories and five papers in the journal and monograph categories. In an...

May 7, 2020

Amid pandemic, wildlife research is ‘just not the same’

COVID-19 has affected everyone, and wildlifers are no exception. In this series, TWS is looking at challenges facing the profession due to the pandemic. Measures to contain the novel coronavirus...

April 29, 2020

Campaign highlights birds’ benefits to humans

As people shelter at home to reduce the spread of the new coronavirus, thoughts are increasingly turning to … birds. That’s a tiny bit of good news amid the pandemic...

April 14, 2020

Camera traps reveal tiger’s footprint on Sumatran ecosystem

Although the Sumatran tiger is critically endangered, its presence in the mountains of southern Sumatra is strong enough to shape the behavior of other predators that share the landscape with...

April 2, 2020

U.S Fish and Wildlife Service sued to compel bison listing

Three advocacy groups sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last week, asserting that the agency unlawfully rejected their petition to list the distinct population segment of Yellowstone bison (Bison...

March 31, 2020

Researchers craft roadmap for studying wildlife communities

As technology like camera traps, drones, and acoustic monitoring becomes more prevalent and citizen science creates bigger datasets of wildlife on the landscape, researchers are taking more opportunities to study...

March 13, 2020

Pet cats’ impact on wildlife hits close to home

Pet cats don’t stray too far from their homes, but in the areas they travel, they can have a greater impact on wildlife than their wild counterparts roaming the jungles...

February 28, 2020

Q&A: The effects of nuclear disasters on wildlife

Nuclear disasters can cause widespread death and sickness among wildlife, just like humans. But after the initial radiation leaks subside, research has shown that wildlife communities can recover to levels...

February 27, 2020

Partners from the start of wildlife conservation

When the Boone and Crockett club formed in 1887, there was no such thing as a wildlife biologist, let alone a discipline of wildlife biology. Before the creation of the...

February 6, 2020

Wildlife is thriving in radioactive Fukushima

Wildlife is thriving in Japan’s Fukushima area, the site of a 2011 nuclear power plant accident, with many native species recolonizing areas off limits to humans. TWS member James Beasely,...