Conservationists Hold Red Wolf Listening Session
The Washington Daily News featured a story about a listening session we hosted with the Red Wolf Coalition for local landowners in North Carolina’s red wolf recovery area. Photo: USFWS
Wildlands Network in the News
DNA of Wolf Declared Extinct in Wild Lives on in Texas Pack
Our Chief Scientist, Dr. Ron Sutherland, was quoted extensively in an Associated Press article about the discovery of surprising amounts of red wolf DNA in wild canids in coastal Texas. Photo: Seth Bynum, PDZA
Bringing Back Historic Wildlife Migration Corridors to the Mountains
Wildlands Network’s Wildlife Scientist, Dr. Liz Hillard, was interviewed by the Asheville Citizen Times about our road ecology work with elk in and around Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Since April 2018, we’ve outfitted 7 elk in the park with GPS collars and are monitoring their movements across major roads. Photo: Emily Blanchard
Roads and Wildlife: Working to Reduce the Human/Wildlife Conflict
Wildlands Network’s former Landscape Conservationist, Maggie Ernest Johnson, wrote about our growing road ecology efforts in this article, republished in The Delaware Valley Eagle Alliance’s online Nature Newsletter. Maggie detailed our efforts to mitigate wildlife-vehicle collisions across a number of major highways in North America. Photo: Noel Reynolds
Groups Ask to Extend Public-Comment Periods Due to Shutdown
During the government shutdown in December 2018, several comment portals for public policy were take down from government websites, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service website, Public News Service reported. Several groups, including Wildlands Network, called for comment period extensions as a result. Photo: Steve Hillebrand, USFWS
Inside Ecology: Carnivores in the City: Making Friends with Our Wild Neighbours
Inside Ecology, a science-focused outlet in the UK, republished this Trusting Wildlands piece from Senior Conservation Scientist with Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo, Dr. Robert Long. In the article, Dr. Long reminds us that being neighborly to urban carnivores is good for them AND us. Photo: Woodland Park Zoo
Court Ruling No Guarantee for Red Wolves
Dr. Ron Sutherland spoke with the Coastal Review Online about a federal judge’s ruling that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s recent red wolf management proposal violated the Endangered Species Act. Photo: USFWS
Inside Ecology: Coyote Champion: An Interview with Camilla Fox
Inside Ecology, a science-focused outlet in the UK, republished this exclusive Trusting Wildlands interview with Camilla Fox. Wildlands Network’s former communications consultant, Paula MacKay, and Camilla Fox discuss the ethics and conservation issues associated with wildlife killing contests. Photo: Joshua Asel
Inside Ecology: Grappling with the Ethics of Wildlife Encounters Abroad: Part 2
Inside Ecology, a science-focused outlet in the UK, republished part two of a two part series Wildland Globetrotter, Katy Schaffer, wrote exploring the ethical complexities of animal encounters while travelling in Europe. Photo: Katy Schaffer
Inside Ecology: Grappling with the Ethics of Wildlife Encounters Abroad: Part 1
Inside Ecology, a science-focused outlet in the UK, republished part one of a two part series Wildland’s Network’s Communications Director, Katy Schaffer, wrote exploring the ethical complexities of interacting with animals who cannot speak up for themselves in Asia and Australia. Photo: Katy Schaffer
Sonora Congress Promotes Wildlife Passages on Its Roads
Read Mexico Program Director Juan Carlos Bravo’s interview in Huffington Post about the Sonora Congress’s exhortation to the federal government to build wildlife crossings on roads. Photo: SoyCobre
Sonora Congress Exhorts SCT to Build Wildlife Crossings on Highways
Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, spoke with Spanish outlet Algo Que Informar about the Sonora Congress’s exhortation to Mexico’s federal transportation committee to build wildlife crossings on highways. Photo: William C. Gladish
WN Celebrates the Exhortation for Wildlife Crossings
In El Sol de Hermosillo, a newspaper from Sonora, Mexico, Mexico Program Director Juan Carlos Bravo celebrates Sonora Congress’s exhortation to Mexico’s federal transportation committee to build wildlife crossings. Photo: El Sol de Hermosillo
Sonora Needs Wildlife Crossings, Every Year 2,000 Animals Become Roadkill: Juan Carlos Bravo
Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, spoke with Proyecto Puente, a Spanish-language outlet in Sonora, Mexico, about the killing of a female black bear on Mexico’s Highway 2. Photo: William C. Gladish
Bridges or Tunnels are Needed for Animals to Cross Mexican Roads: Wildlands Network
Watch Uniradio Noticias’s interview with Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program, about the killing of a female black bear in a wildlife-vehicle collision on Mexico’s Highway 2. Photo: William C. Gladish