Tag: Diversity

Plenty of research papers have covered some of the overarching institutional barriers faced by marginalized groups—like those belonging to the LBGTQ+ community—in environmental sciences, but those papers have often overlooked...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is implementing its 2023 Directorate Resource Assistant Fellows Program, which targets diverse students that may be hired into permanent employment. Students selected for the...

For scientists trained to be objective, it can be a challenge to inject their own opinions about their research. It can be even harder to think about their feelings about...

Officials in charge of state parks around the country are trying to attract more diverse visitors. About 75% of visitors to the state and national parks in the U.S. are...

The Wildlife Society’s Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Awareness Working Group is hosting a free two-day virtual storytelling workshop for 25 wildlifers in August 2022. The exact date will be announced...

The Student Wildlands Adventure Program recently completed its fifth annual event. Twelve students from the western United States and Canada were selected to participate on a trip to the Southern...

The Director of Colorado Parks and Wildlife made racially insensitive remarks at last month’s Colorado Parks and Wildlife Partners in the Outdoors Conference that resulted in a CPW employee feeling...

A growing group of journal publishers is taking a closer look at the diversity of their authors. Nature reports that over 50 publishers representing over 15,000 journals around the world...

The Diversity Joint Venture for Conservation Careers selected TWS Professional Development Manager Jamila Blake as a new member of its management board. Blake will serve a three-year term on the...

The Wildlife Society welcomes its newest operations and outreach intern, Alexia Yau, to TWS headquarters. Yau is from Hampton, Va. and graduated in the summer of 2020 from the University...