December 16, 2020

Pronghorn Study Finds Migration Trends

Wildlife must move to thrive and survive, however the habitat connectivity they rely on for spring and fall seasonal migrations continues to be fragmented by housing, roads, fences, energy facilities and other human-made barriers. An article focused on […]

December 15, 2020

New Lighting System Helps Deer Avoid Cars

Researchers with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Wildlife Services (WS) program recently applied for a patent (U.S. Patent Application No. 16/668,253) for a new vehicle-based lighting system to prevent deer-vehicle collisions during low-light conditions. Through […]

December 15, 2020

Mysterious Spread of Treesnake

For the first time, an invasive brown treesnake population has been found on Cocos Island, an 83.1 acre atoll located 1.5 miles off the southwest coast of Guam. The brown treesnake was a major contributor to […]

December 10, 2020

Feds Continue Wildlife Rabies Research

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) today announced it will continue field evaluation of the oral rabies vaccine (ORV) bait ONRAB in five states. This year’s field evaluation is part […]

December 9, 2020

USDA Invites Comment On Modified Corn

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting public comment on a request from Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. (Pioneer) to extend deregulation to a corn variety developed using genetic […]

December 9, 2020

Turkeys Are A “Bird Of Courage”?

Benjamin Franklin was quite fond of turkeys. How do we know? Well, in one well-publicized case, the founding father was so disappointed that the bald eagle was chosen the country’s national bird that he wrote a letter in 1784 to his daughter, Sarah […]

December 8, 2020

State Seeking Rabbit Death Info

In April, the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) received test results confirming that Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease (RHDV) was found in several species of wild rabbits in Texas. Since June, TPWD, the United States Department of […]

December 3, 2020

Center To Advance Bison Research

The future of America’s national mammal continued to brighten this week as officials from South Dakota State University (SDSU), the National Bison Association and the National Buffalo Foundation formally launched the Center of Excellence for Bison […]

December 3, 2020

Shocking Plastic Water Pollution

As concerns over the global plastic pollution crisis mount, researchers are unearthing a different but equally important component of the problem–microfibers. The Nature Conservancy and world-renowned industrial ecologists at the University of California Santa Barbara recently […]

December 2, 2020

Tazmanian Devil Makes Return

For the first time in 3,000 years, the Tasmanian devil is back in the wild on mainland Australia, an historic moment that is critical to rewild Australia, the country with the world’s worst mammal extinction rate. […]

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