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 ...
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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 ...
Sen. Udall releases ambitious proposal for land, water conservation
Senator Tom Udall, D-NM, introduced a Senate resolution that calls for protecting at least 30% of the United States’ lands and waters by 2030. The resolution, ...
Management actions help woodpecker recover
At Fort Stewart, Georgia, and across much of the Southeast, the red-cockaded woodpecker is on the rebound. Listed as endangered since the Endangered Species Act was ...
Q&A: David Steen, giving snakes a voice
Sometimes he’s identifying snakes from tweeted pictures. Sometimes he’s reaching out to the public to increase awareness — and ease people’s phobias — of ...
Alan Wentz earns 2019 Aldo Leopold Award
Before Alan Wentz can even remember, he had a love for the outdoors. “My mother often told me a story,” said Wentz, a retired chief conservation officer for ...
Adapting existing laws to environmental change
Creating new laws to address changing environmental conditions may be a challenge, but according to research published recently in the Proceedings of the National ...