Ecosystem engineers buffer animals from extinction
Species like beavers and elephants that engineer and change the ecosystems around them could help save other species from extinction. A new study may be the first ...
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Amid pandemic, social media fills with false wildlife news
Perhaps looking for an upside to COVID-19, social media has been filling with incredible tales of wildlife recovery due to the pandemic. Swans have returned to ...
Wild Cam: Tracking the rewilding of a Malawi park
Wildlife managers with the U.S. Forest Service are partnering with international colleagues in Malawi to track the revitalization of wildlife decimated by poaching. ...
Do animal brains spell trouble for humans?
Intelligence in crows (Corvus spp.), raccoons (Procyon lotor), coyotes (Canis latrans) and other species can make them an annoyance to people who live alongside ...
DNA helps track ivory poachers
A team of researchers say they have a novel approach to tracking down elephant poachers, the New York Times reports. Samuel Wasser, director of the Center for ...
Does media presence create false sense of species’ success?
The images of Kellogg’s Frosted Flakes’ Tony the Tiger, Cheetos’ Chester Cheetah and Toys R Us’ Geoffrey the Giraffe surround us all the time. But how does ...
Battle over elephant trophy imports takes another turn
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has lost a legal battle over its April 2014 decision to ban the import of elephant trophies from Zimbabwe. The USFWS’ original ...
TWS letter: Importation of hunter-harvested elephants
On November 22, The Wildlife Society sent a letter to President Trump regarding the conservation of African elephants (Loxodonta africana) in Zimbabwe, Zambia, and ...
WSB study: The sound of female elephants could drive away crop-raiding males
When a bull elephant decides to eat a farmer’s crops, no puny human voice is likely to change its mind. But the voices of female elephants are a different matter, ...
DNA Reveals Major Ivory Poaching Hotspots
While most anti-poaching efforts for elephants have focused on curbing demand of illegal ivory products, a recent study went straight to the source — poaching ...