Tag: TEK

November 21, 2022

Watch: Rare bird recorded after 140 year-absence to science

Researchers on an expedition traveling through an island in Papua New Guinea have captured what may be the first ever known video footage of a black-naped pheasant-pigeon. While local hunters...

November 8, 2022

TWS2022: Speakers hail need for salmon restoration at plenary

The Wildlife Society kicked off its 2022 Annual Conference in Spokane on Monday with a focus on dam removal to restore healthy, salmon-fueled ecosystems throughout the Upper Columbia River Basin....

April 13, 2022

Tribes used fire to shape California forests for millennia

Managers are increasingly turning to prescribed fire to address unhealthy forest conditions in California. But as researchers recently explored in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they are...

February 7, 2022

The January issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management

The Journal of Wildlife Management is a benefit of membership in The Wildlife Society. Published eight times annually, it is one of the world’s leading scientific journals covering wildlife science, management...

January 18, 2022

JWM: Integrating Yurok knowledge and wildlife management

Wildlife researchers are increasing their efforts to interweave western science with Indigenous knowledge to improve wildlife management. Seafha Ramos, a TWS member, has worked with her Yurok community to build...

September 10, 2021

Climate change changes Indigenous seal hunting

A changing climate resulting in reduced sea ice coverage is causing Indigenous seal hunters who rely on the marine mammals for subsistence to change their methods. As the ice continues...

August 4, 2021

Do polar bears wield ice blocks to kill walruses?

In the eastern Canadian Arctic and Greenland, Inuit have told stories for centuries of polar bears using rocks and blocks of ice to bludgeon walruses to death. Naturalists discounted such...

October 20, 2020

Indigenous observations track caribou through climate change

It started out as an international collaborative effort to track the potential effects of future oil and gas development on a large, migratory caribou population. But a decade worth of...

February 21, 2020

Symposium shares cultural importance of the wolf

Wildlife Services in Wisconsin recently benefited from a unique wolf symposium sponsored primarily by the Mashkiiziibil — the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa — as well as other...