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Using camera trap images from 10 cities in the Urban Wildlife Information Network, we examined where coyotes are more likely to be diseased with sarcoptic mange - and how this may change with a warming climate.

Kazakhstan has released its first tiger into the wild more than seven decades since the last confirmed sighting of the big cat in the country. On July 31, 2026, an adult female Amur tiger called Umit, which means “hope” in Kazakh, leapt from her cage on the back of a pickup truck, as she was released into the wilderness of the 1.1 million-acre Ile-Balkhash State Nature Reserve in southeastern Kaz…

One day in late June, a forest patrol deep in the jungles of Central India came across a distressing sight. Twelve spotted deer and two sambar deer lay dead around a poisoned pond. This was among the biggest cases of suspected mass poisoning of wild herbivores ever reported in the... The post Meet India’s Four-Legged Wildlife Detectives appeared first on Reasons to be Cheerful .

When the Australian Army went to war against emus armed with machine guns, the birds won.

In a world of emerging diseases that threaten both wildlife conservation and public health, finding innovative ways to monitor animal populations has never been more necessary. Traditional methods often involve capturing or handling animals, which is stressful, costly, and logistically challenging. But what if we could detect diseases without disturbing an animal? A promising solution for this ch…

Scientists found that chronic wasting disease may spread silently between species, revealing a hidden challenge in the fight against the fatal wildlife disease. Chronic wasting disease (CWD) is best known as a disease affecting deer, elk, and other cervid (hooved, plant-eating) animals. Now, researchers at the University of Calgary and their international collaborators have taken [...]

Nature, Published online: 15 June 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-01887-w Advances in machine learning and other technologies are helping researchers to trace the movements, landmarks and social practices of wildlife.

A recent study published by Lindecke et al. in Science found that brief exposures to wireless radiofrequency (RF) radiation, a type of electromagnetic field (EMF), disrupted flight navigation in bats for several hours beyond the exposure period. In short: Bats exposed to RF radiation consistently flew in random directions, rather than the normal directional behavior of the nonexposed controls. Th…

Paul and Jane Miller, through a six-figure pledge, have created the Paul and Jane Miller Undergraduate Research Fund in the College of Agricultural Sciences' Department of Ecosystem Science and Management. With the goal of seeing their philanthropy in action, the Millers have also committed to a five-year, $25,000 pledge to early activate their research endowment.

IntroductionIdentifying individual white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus) for treatment with porcine zona pellucida (PZP) immunocontraceptive vaccines is critical to the success of fertility management programs, but adult female deer are very difficult to distinguish in the field. Past research has relied on chemical immobilization and ear-tagging to assure individual identification, but this…

March in Yellowstone comes with many things: snow, freezing temperatures, but also the first glimpses of spring. The first bison calves often drop, the earliest of wildflowers poke through, the sun peeks out a little longer each day, and as the park warms, visitors and wildlife alike are reminded that summer adventures are on their way. For most bears, March is when they begin to emerge from thei…

“Is it love to possess and restrict other beings?” The question comes from Juliana Ferreira, Executive Director of Freeland South America, and it is not rhetorical. It is an invitation to rethink how we relate to wildlife, consumption, and conservation itself. “Demand is born from the desire to have, to own,” Juliana explains. “Since childhood, we’re

Wildlife officials are investigating the suspicious death of a gray wolf near Yellowstone National Park. The killing is believed to have taken place on the night of December 25 in an area of southern Montana just north of the park. According to a statement from Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP), officials started investigating after they received a concerning notification from a wolf collar …

Tourists snapping selfies with sloths are fueling a booming black market that’s tearing these gentle animals from the Amazon rainforest.

AUBURN UNIVERSITY, Ala. — Nothing gets a hunter’s heart racing quite like a big buck stepping into their sites and turning broadside. That’s the moment hunters pursue all season long.....

A tip-off sets law enforcement in motion; when they intercept the traffickers, they find a pangolin, curled tight, trembling with fear, stuffed into a battered sack, rolled in an old, disused plastic bucket. To the untrained eye, it may appear as nothing more than a pile of dried leaves, but to the wildlife intelligence officers, it is a life teetering on the edge. This is how most rescues begin:…

Post provided by Brendan Carswell. Brendan (he/him/his) is currently a PhD student in Biology at the University of Calgary in the Weaving Wildlife and Land Based Knowledges lab. This paper, however, came from Brendan’s Masters work at the Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador in the Wildlife Evolutionary Ecology Lab. Motivation Our research team is interested in facilitating inclusive …