The Wildlife Society

The Wildlife Society is celebrating 90 years of supporting wildlife and wildlife professionals across North America and beyond. Help us strengthen our mission by participating in this year’s 2026 Silent Auction, and continue to promote wildlife conservation science, rese...

More than a thousand miles from the nearest ocean, a high school in Des Moines is home to a surprising number of sea creatures. Another surprise? Each of its more than 100 saltwater tanks is cared for by a student.

Central Campus, a public magnet school in Iowa, boasts a 10,000-square-foot saltwater laboratory where students learn how to care for marine life and think ...

Illegal poaching of wild animals for the pet trade is a major threat to global biodiversity. Researchers from Arizona State University and The Australian National University developed an interactive mapping tool to help law enforcement officials identify and stop illegal wildlife trade hot spots in Mexico.

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The Wildlife Society’s Conservation Affairs Network supports communication, collaboration and coordination on policy engagement across our organization and participating chapters, sections, working groups and student chapters. The monthly CAN newsletter highlights policy issues occurring at local, regional and national levels, and provides opportunities for wildlife professio...

Despite millions of dollars of conservation investment and decades of work, poachers killed the last Javan rhinoceros in mainland Asia in 2010. The species had been struggling for years—after the end of the Vietnam War, there were about a dozen left in Vietnam, mostly in Cat Tien National Park.

Authorities had protected Cat Tien in 1978, expanding it in subsequent year...