The Wildlife Society

It was December 2021 when workers at the Amalgamated Sugar Company near Twin Falls, Idaho, reported a strange sight. A small creature with a bushy raccoon-like tail was running amok in the factory, but it wasn’t a raccoon (Procyon lotor). The factory called the Idaho Department of Fish and Game (IDFG) to help them get the creature out.

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The Ecological Society of America hosted its annual conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, last month. This was the first ESA conference I had the pleasure of attending, and it did not disappoint. Between reconnecting with old friends, engaging in new discussions and attending intriguing sessions, I left ESA2026 with a renewed sense of purpose in navigating the challenges presen...

Indigenous Indonesians have come to a solution to help conserve an endangered cockatoo species important for cultural practices. The salmon-crested cockatoo (Cacatua moluccensis) is considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Natur...

Long-term tidal marsh restoration in central California wetlands is bringing back important breeding habitat for birds.

Wetlands along the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers have been strictly controlled for more than a century by a series of levees that drained wetlands. But while some more recent changes seem to encourage the presence and diversity of marsh-breeding s...

Young frogs disregard fighting disease in favor of faster growth—until the illness gets serious. Researchers have found that growth is the most important factor for young frogs with limited energy to spare, as larger sizes give them a better chance of survival. They modeled data taken from common coqui frogs (Eleutherodactylus coqui) infected with the chytrid fungus,...