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Finding the middle ground for aviation safety and waterfowl
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has recognized “the loss, degradation and fragmentation of migratory bird habitat” as potentially the largest single threat to migratory birds. Human activity contributes to...
Watch: Biodiversity in Antarctica, thanks to poop
The Antarctic Peninsula can be a brutal place, but penguins and seals have created biodiversity hotspots, researchers found, thanks to their nitrogen-rich scat. Biologists found ammonia from their feces is...
Unique partnership preserves unique California ecosystems
Before California’s Central Valley became known as an agricultural powerhouse, it contained one of the largest expanses of streamside forest and wetland habitat in North America. Vast forests of valley...
TWS responds to USGS attempts to limit conference engagement
The Wildlife Society, along with the other members of the U.S. Geological Survey Coalition, recently responded to a new policy that would limit USGS employee attendance at scientific meetings. The...
Interior signs anti-trafficking agreement with Vietnam
Interior Secretary David Bernhardt signed a memorandum of understanding last week with Vietnam’s Minister of Public Security General Tô Lâm, committing both countries to fight wildlife trafficking. The agreement is intended...
University of Tennessee at Martin TWS student chapter wins award
After implementing its mission of engaging the community, the University of Tennessee at Martin student chapter of The Wildlife Society won the university’s Student Organization of the Year award. These...
Wild Cam: Carnivores caught candid roaming the suburbs
Suburban life can be great for carnivores. There’s plenty of green space, and it can be fairly peaceful — as long as they get along with their neighbors. New research...
Chirping at night can put birds at greater collision risk
Birds that make faint, high-frequency flight calls during their nighttime migration are more likely than ones that don’t make these calls to collide with buildings, researchers found. “Flight calls are...
USFWS reconsiders listing California and Nevada sage-grouse
In Sept. 2018, a federal judge in California vacated the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s 2015 decision not to list the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) population along the California-Nevada border under the...
Severe wildfires give a boost to native bees
The hottest flames may bring the most sting when it comes to native bee numbers, according to researchers in Oregon. “We basically found that there were both abundant bee communities...