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July 9, 2019

Bacteria treatment helps bats survive white-nose syndrome

White-nose syndrome has devastated bat populations across much of North America, but researchers have found that applying probiotic bacteria can reduce the disease’s impacts and help struggling populations survive. Combined...

July 9, 2019

A big event in ‘the biggest little city’

Set against the backdrop of the Sierra Nevada, the first-ever joint conference of The Wildlife Society and American Fisheries Society will focus on a broad array of natural resource topics...

July 8, 2019

Hunters back restrictions on moving feral swine

The transport and release of live feral swine to new areas represents one of the biggest threats to feral swine (Sus scrofa) management. Only roughly half of all states currently...

July 5, 2019

Watch: Tiny Manitoba town draws 70K yearly — in snakes

Thousands of tourists come out to a small town in Manitoba every year to witness garter snakes emerge from hibernation. But while the human crowds can be large, they pale...

July 3, 2019

TWS launches new Fundraising Rewards Program

The Wildlife Society is launching a new program that makes it easy for members to support the Society and a favorite organization unit. TWS is establishing a new TWS Fundraising...

June 27, 2019

Senate committee debates maintenance backlog

The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee considered options for addressing the maintenance backlog on public lands during a hearing last week. The $19.4 billion public lands maintenance backlog has...

June 25, 2019

After 50 years, DDT still impacts lake ecosystem

Between the 1950s and 1960s, airplanes spread more than 6,000 tons of the pesticide DDT onto remote forests in New Brunswick, Canada during one of the largest insecticide spray programs...

June 24, 2019

Starvation prompted mass puffin die-off

It was the end of October 2016 when the first reports of dead puffins and auklets began trickling in on the small Pribilof island of St. Paul. Local Aleuts had...

June 24, 2019

Ruminating on ruminants’ evolutionary tree

Researcher have completed a detailed study of the genomes of ruminants in an effort to shed light on the evolution of species from deer to antelope to domesticated species. The...

June 21, 2019

Tapping into private landowners for bird diversity

Privately owned forests in Costa Rica may support just as much bird biodiversity as protected forests, according to new research. Daniel Karp, an assistant professor in the Department of Wildlife,...