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TWS urges increased Interior wildlife program funding
The Wildlife Society is recommending the Department of the Interior’s should increase funding for agency programs that support wildlife professionals and their work to conserve wildlife species and habitats in...
BLM to remove up to 3,500 horses from Wyoming
The Bureau of Land Management recently released an assessment of its plan to remove up to 3,500 wild horses from public lands in southwestern Wyoming, finding that the removals would...
JWM: Lightning strike points to feral horses’ toll
Although it was lonely being by himself in the middle of the Argentine Pampas, the last thing Alberto Scorolli wanted was to meet a friend. He’d been hiking through the...
Wild Cam: Types of scavengers vary based on live prey abundance
It was the summer of 2015 in Yukon, Canada when Michael Peers and his fellow researchers deployed a trail camera near a snowshoe hare carcass to see what it might...
House advances appropriations bills including wildlife funding
The House Appropriations Committee passed two appropriations bills last week that would provide small increases to many wildlife management and conservation programs. The U.S. House Committee on Appropriations advanced Fiscal...
Coronavirus vaccine search runs on horseshoe crab blood
Testing for dangerous bacteria called endotoxins in vaccines and other medicines has long relied on a component in horseshoe crab blood. That includes the search for a vaccine for COVID-19....
TWS Issue Statement: Feral Horses and Burros in North America
Back to Position Statements page Feral horses and burros are invasive species in North America. Exotic, non-native species are among the most widespread and serious threats to the integrity of...
The Wildlife Society provides recommendations on spending bills
As congressional appropriators begin to develop their Fiscal Year 2021 spending bills, The Wildlife Society recommended spending levels for the U.S. Geological Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of...
Administration budget would cut wildlife funding
The administration’s Fiscal Year 2021 budget (update June 2021 – see link to archived document here)proposal, released Feb. 10, includes steep cuts for many important wildlife management and conservation programs including...
Administration’s regulatory agenda would affect wildlife
Many of the anticipated rules released by the White house Office of Management and Budget’s semiannual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions will affect The Wildlife Society’s conservation priorities....
