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Tracking baby sea turtles to help conservation
Tracking baby sea turtles across vast expanses of ocean can help conservationists determine where sea turtles at risk may face danger from fishing operations or other disturbances. “Clearly, you want...
Cleveland, Tenn., student chapter members had eventful 2019
From earning over 1,000 volunteer hours with federal and state natural resource agencies to earning paid internships, the Cleveland State Community College student chapter of The Wildlife Society in Cleveland,...
Prescribed fires burn turtles but may help egg-laying females
Prescribed fires may kill individual box turtles, but the aftermath produces favorable plots for egg-laying females. “The fire does create this challenging habitat around them by altering the availability of...
JWM: Choppers firing painkiller bait control tree snakes
Toxic bait cartridges automatically fired from helicopters may be the first successful way to efficiently reduce numbers of invasive brown tree snakes at the landscape scale on the island of...
Why are bats such vectors for diseases?
As the new coronavirus rapidly spreads throughout China and around the world, scientists are indicating that the virus likely originated in bats. Specifically, they suggest, it probably game from the...
Researchers say Mexican ranch likely source of Ariz. ocelots
A breeding population of ocelots just 30 miles south of the border is likely the source of occasional cat sightings in Arizona, biologists say. The population is the northernmost known...
Watch: Sharpshooting officer frees antler-locked deer
When two deer locked antlers in a field outside Calgary, an Alberta Fish and Wildlife officer came up with a surprising way to separate them. Tranquilizing one animal could injure...
JWM: Decades on, Alaska caribou still avoid oil development
Caribou on Alaska’s North Slope continue to avoid oil infrastructure decades after it was put in place, especially during the calving season, according to a recent study This adds to...
Watch: Invasive parasites spreading among Florida snakes
Invasive lung worms introduced by nonnative Burmese pythons are infecting — and possibly killing —native species of Florida snakes, and researchers say they are spreading northward and could reach other...
Minnesota student chapters provide exciting new opportunities
These updates originally appear in the North Central Section of The Wildlife Society’s Fall 2019 newsletter. Photos highlighting the student chapter’s activities are also included in the section’s newsletter. Bemidji...