Photo: Gary Kramer, USFWS
Dr. Ron Sutherland, our chief scientist, spoke with the Washington Post about the newly released expert report that defines red wolves as a distinct species, separate from gray wolves and coyotes. This conclusion is especially important because it means that as a distinct species, red wolves are deserving of protections under the Endangered Species Act. Photo: Ron Sutherland
Ron Sutherland spoke with The Guardian about the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s seeming willingness to let the population of red wolves decline in the wild under the Trump administration. Photo: Ron Sutherland
In the Sante Fe New Mexican, Wildlife Policy Coordinator Phil Carter wrote a letter to the editor, urging readers to support a bill moving through the New Mexico state legislature that would help prevent unnecessary wildlife deaths on New Mexico’s roads. Photo: Noel Reynolds
In this video, Arizona PBS discusses the benefits of and obstacles to strengthening wildlife corridors in the borderlands region of the U.S. and Mexico with Juan Carlos Bravo, director of our Mexico Program. The video also features our friends in the Sonoran Desert, Rancho El Aribabi, the owners of which prioritize conservation in their land management, aiding in the recovery and migration of vulnerable species like the jaguar. Photo: Northern Jaguar Project/Naturalia
Huffington Post Mexico covered our recent press release about a new policy proposal in the state of Sonora, Mexico that mandates wildlife crossings in the state’s Territorial Ordinance Programs. Graphic: Pedro Capdeveille
In this op-ed in Asheville, North Carolina’s Citizen Times, opinion writer Bill McGoun argues for coexistence with wildlife in the countryside, “[letting] them alone as much as possible to lead their lives while I lead mine.” Photo: Noel Reynolds
Last week, the state of Chihuahua in Mexico amended a law to mandate wildlife crossings on all new highway projects in the state. Wildlife crossings decrease the risk of wildlife-vehicle collisions, protecting both wildlife and human travelers. Huffington Post Mexico covered the story, interviewing Juan Carlos Bravo, our Mexico Program Director. Graphic: Pedro Capdeveille
The Los Angeles Times details how climate change will disastrously affect regional wildlife in and around the Grand Canyon, presenting wildlife connectivity through linking federal lands together as the solution to preserving biodiversity for generations to come. Photo: Kristen M. Caldon
The Arizona Daily Star published this op-ed by our Borderlands Program Coordinator, Myles Traphagen, who details the catastrophic effects the president’s proposed border wall would have on regional wildlife, including wolves, Sonoran pronghorn, and jaguars. Photo: Gary M. Stolz
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
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
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
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
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, 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