Healthy ecosystems deter disease transmission
Deadly diseases like COVID-19 are less likely to jump from wildlife to humans if healthy, intact ecosystems are conserved, according to a report and a separate ...
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Can internet memes help conserve uncharismatic wildlife?
When researcher Magdalena Lenda was spending long evenings at Australian University, far from her home in Poland, she often waited for her family back home to wake ...
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 ...
Are environmental impact assessments short on science?
Environmental impact assessments used in many countries to analyze the effects of human activities on wildlife and ecosystems have scientific shortcomings the world ...
Deadline approaching for conference abstracts
The deadline to submit your abstracts to present your research at this year’s TWS Annual Conference is this Friday, April 17, 2020. SUBMIT ABSTRACT This ...
Watch: Kemp’s ridley sea turtle continues to rebound
The Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii) was once thought to be on its way to extinction. But thanks to conservation efforts, the turtle is making a ...
2020 Proposals deadline approaching!
Do you have an idea for an educational or training session at The Wildlife Society’s 2020 Annual Conference? If so, there’s only a short time left to submit it! ...
2020 Call for Abstracts now open!
The Wildlife Society invites you to submit abstracts for presentations at the 2020 Annual Conference in Louisville, Kentucky! The call is open now through April 17, ...
Are wildlifers’ values changing?
When TWS members conducted a study in 1998 to assess what wildlife conservation professionals, including TWS members, valued, they were already detecting a ...
Survey shows U.S. citizens increasingly humanize animals
When a dentist from Minnesota killed Cecil the Lion in 2015, a controversial fallout divided many people in the wildlife community over questions of conservation ...