Tag: policy

The Migratory Bird Protection Act, legislation that would provide a path forward in public-private migratory species conservation work, has been reintroduced to the U.S. House of Representatives. Reps. Alan Lowenthal...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service released proposals designating critical habitat under the Endangered Species Act for two threatened bird species earlier this month. Under a proposal rule published July 20,...

Last week, Senators Martin Heinrich (D-NM) and Roy Blunt (R-MO) introduced the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act in the U.S. Senate. The landmark legislation would provide about $1.4 billion annually to state, territorial...

The Wildlife Society Council recently renewed and updated two position statements that were due to expire later this year. Revised position statements on Energy Development and Wildlife and Invasive Species were...

The western United States is in the midst of an historic fire season that may surpass last year’s fire numbers. Last year’s total of 60,000 mostly human-caused fires burning nearly...

A highway bill passed by the U.S. House of Representatives earlier this month includes important funding for wildlife connectivity. The $715 billion legislation extends for another five years the current...

The number of wild horses and burros on public lands has decreased for the first time in almost a decade, according to a new report from the Bureau of Land...

When Michael Phillips was 12 years old in 1970, he recalls flipping through the four channels on his parents’ black and white television and stopping when he got to a...

As the U.S. House Appropriations Committee considered the appropriations bill for the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior, The Wildlife Society and the American Fisheries Society sent...

A new bill introduced into the U.S. House of Representatives late last month would classify the “global wildlife extinction crisis” as a national emergency. That would require the U.S. Fish...