Tag: conservation

When TWS members conducted a study in 1998 to assess what wildlife conservation professionals, including TWS members, valued, they were already detecting a shift.     A lot has changed in...

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 and the tendency for some...

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, called the Thirty by...

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 created, the bird is...

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 snakes. To his colleagues, David Steen...

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 Ducks Unlimited....

Creating new laws to address changing environmental conditions may be a challenge, but according to research published recently in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, some existing laws...

University of Montana TWS student chapter member Ada Smith always wanted to learn how to hunt, but she wanted to shadow an experienced hunter before she ventured out on her...

Black bears in British Columbia and Washington state will face habitat connectivity issues under future climate change scenarios, and the simple fix of creating north-to-south corridors may not be enough...

In his 35 years studying ocelots (Leopardus pardalis), 42-year TWS member Michael Tewes has seen plenty of efforts to conserve them in his home state of Texas, but they haven’t...