Watch: Tracking Indiana bats to their summer grounds
Where do Indiana bats migrate in the spring? Not much has been known about their migration behaviors, and most of that has been gathered from recovering bands. To ...
endangered species
Watch: New board game shows the challenges of conservation
A new board game called Endangered shows players how hard conserving endangered species can be. In the game, which can include one to five players, individuals can ...
To protect endangered species, public lands aren’t enough
Even if all state and federal public lands in the United States were protected to benefit endangered species, more than half the country’s endangered species ...
A check-up finds healthy sea turtles on Florida beach
For veterinary researcher Annie Page-Karjian, veterinary science and wildlife biology need to come together more often. Juno Beach, a six-mile stretch of coastline ...
Exploring genetics to save endangered pocket mouse
Researchers are delving into the genomes of Pacific pocket mice to help inform conservationists about the best ways to recover the federally endangered species, ...
Pandemic hampers wildlife efforts around the world
Efforts to contain COVID-19 have curtailed efforts to protect endangered species around the world. In Brazil, biologists working to recover golden lion tamarins ...
Texas ocelots seek large, unbroken swaths of thornscrub
Endangered ocelots in South Texas prefer to use unfragmented landscapes. Efforts to conserve the imperiled feline should focus on maintaining large patches of ...
Study finds logging endangers BC caribou herds
A recent study says poor governmental coordination in Canada is resulting in a failure to protect endangered caribou (Rangifer tarandus). The study published in ...
Southern Sierra Nevada region fishers listed as endangered
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has added a distinct population of fishers (Pekania pennanti) in the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains of California to the list ...
Endangered salamanders benefit from wetland restoration
The endangered tiger salamanders, the largest American terrestrial salamander, is making a comeback in Maryland, according to the department’s spring 2020 surveys ...