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After January order from US department of the interior, managers across 55 sites have lifted prohibitions Donald Trump’s administration is quietly pushing national park, refuge and wilderness area managers to dramatically scale back hunting restrictions, raising questions about visitor safety and the impact on wildlife. Doug Burgum, the US Department of the Interior secretary, issued an order in …

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…

It may still look like winter in parts of Yellowstone, but spring has arrived in one important way: bears have started emerging from their dens. All of Yellowstone is bear country, from the trails in the park’s backcountry to the boardwalks and parking lots around Old Faithful. You can play an active role in protecting yourself and the bears people come here to enjoy. Photo: Jim Futterer Give bea…

Yellowstone National Park offers one of the most breathtaking wildlife watching experiences in the world, with its vast and diverse ecosystem home to over 67 species of mammals, 322 species of birds, and a rich variety of plants. While the thrill of spotting moose, bison, elk, and even bears draws countless visitors each year, it’s crucial to remember that these animals are truly wild—and must be…

“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 …

Tim Hofmann and Stijn Verschueren from the Cheetah Conservation Fund in Otjiwarongo, Namibia investigate how to effectively monitor cheetah populations. Cheetahs are Africa’s most endangered big cats, with fewer than 7,100 individuals left in the wild, scattered across less than 9% of their historical range. These estimates are largely based on expert opinions and few well-studied populatio…

As deer-hunting season is in full swing, the Alabama Cooperative Extension System’s Forestry, Wildlife, and Natural Resources team wants to remind new and established hunters of the benefits they receive....

Are you interested in traveling to Yellowstone National Park over spring break? Want to see wolves, explore US National Park Service management, put your GIS and wildlife skills to work, or catch and track a raven? If so, you may be interested in taking ESRM 459 Spring Quarter with Professors Aaron Wirsing, John Marzluff, and a third instructor TBD. To be considered for the class, please email Dr.

Laura Prugh, an associate professor of Quantitative Wildlife Sciences with the School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, shares about her pursuit to understand connections in the environment. On this episode of FieldSound, Prugh’s work with the critically endangered Kangaroo Rats is highlighted. Known as the “ecosystem engineers” of the Carrizo Plain National Monument in Southern California, K…

New research shows how humans are a substantial source of mortality for wolves that live predominantly in national parks — and more importantly, that human-caused mortality triggers instability in wolf packs in national parks.

Deer can show transitional use between agricultural fields and forests for foraging and shelter which may have an effect on the level of forest damage. In their latest research, Anders Jarnemo and colleagues investigate this relationship by studying red deer in Skåne, Sweden. Red deer (Cervus elaphus) have been observed to cause severe damage to forest plantations through bark stripping, with tre…

One unique thing about working at the Cincinnati Zoo is the amount of passion each employee has for wildlife and wild places. It’s inspiring to be surrounded by so many individuals who care so deeply about the Zoo, the animals and also their wild counterparts. Every year, Zoo employees are invited to submit requests for […] The post Cincinnati Zoo Employees Awarded Grants to Save Wildlife appeare…

Post provided by Meredith Palmer, Chris “Akiba” Wang, Jacinta Plucinski & Robert M. Pringle Camera traps are a valuable tool in ecological research, especially for capturing large quantities of information on the behaviour of an array of wildlife within an ecological community. Camera traps are seldom used to experimentally testing key animal behaviour hypotheses, despite the potential offere…

The COVID-19 pandemic and the subsequent shutdowns in many regions around the world offered a new “human-less” environment for urban wildlife in 2020. In their latest research, Benson et al. share their findings from tracking mountain lion movements in greater Los Angeles, USA during spring 2020. Early on during the global pandemic, ecologists quickly realised that changes in human behaviour and …