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A shark hunting

Wildlife Management

Watch: Hammerhead Hunts and Kills Reef Shark in Rare Drone Footage

By Natalie Krebs

Game wardens wearing body cameras.

Wildlife Management

Should All Game Wardens Wear Body Cams? Washington State Thinks So

A CWD-detection dog identifies a CWD-positive sample.

Wildlife Management

Dogs Are Really Good at Detecting Chronic Wasting Disease, Study Shows

By Natalie Krebs

Colorado High Schoolers Invent a Thermal AI Dashcam to Reduce Collisions with Deer

Wildlife Management

Colorado High Schoolers Invent a Thermal AI Dashcam to Reduce Collisions with Deer

Mallards and pintails

Wildlife Management

Mallard Numbers Are Up This Year, Plus Duck Hunters Might See a 3-Pintail Limit Next Season

By Natalie Krebs

A grizzly sow walks on dirt with her cubs.

Wildlife Management

Watch: This Is the First-Ever Verified Sighting of a Grizzly Sow and Cubs on Vancouver Island

By Alice Jones Webb

The Hollywood Cemetery buck compared to the James Walters buck.

Wildlife Management

Poacher Loses Hunting Privileges for 24 Years After Famous ‘Hollywood Buck’ Turns Up Dead on Facebook

By Natalie Krebs

Mountain Lion atop a Rocky Outcrop Looking Ahead into the Trees

Wildlife Management

A Big Cat Hunting Ban Would Cost Colorado More Than $60 Million, Study Shows

A bird that died of avian botulism.

Wildlife Management

Hundreds of Ducks Dead Amid Reports of Avian Flu and Botulism at Two Critical California Refuges

Watch: Snake Hunters Find Giant Python Being Eaten Alive by Ticks

Wildlife Management

Watch: Snake Hunters Find Giant Python Being Eaten Alive by Ticks

RFK J with the dead black bear cub in 2014.

Wildlife Management

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Admits to Bizarre Prank That Involved Dumping a Dead Black Bear Cub in Central Park

By Alice Jones Webb

A gray wolf in Oregon.

Wildlife Management

Colorado Seeks New Wolf Source After Colville Tribe Rescinds Offer to Help with Reintroduction

Wildlife Management

Lion Hunting Ban Qualifies for Colorado’s November Ballot

By Andrew McKean

A New Hampshire wildlife officer with striped bass that were confiscated from a poacher.

Wildlife Management

East Coast Poacher ‘Caught Red-Handed’ with 14 Oversized Stripers Admitted He Planned to Sell Them

By Alice Jones Webb

A large elk herd on private land.

Wildlife Management

Montana Judge Says Landowners Don’t Have ‘Absolute Freedom’ to Kill Elk, and Allowing Public Hunting Doesn’t Infringe on Their Rights

A village gathers around four dead maneating lions

Wildlife Management

My Hunt for the Man-Eating Lions of Matiyani

By Scott Haugen

A biologist handles red drum fingerlings.

Wildlife Management

Texas Will Stock Its One Billionth Saltwater Gamefish This July

Florida outfitter Razzor Ranch hosted fraudulent Osceola turkey hunts

Wildlife Management

Florida Guides Passed Off Pen-Raised Turkeys as Wild Osceolas to Unsuspecting Hunters, Officials Say

Wildlife Management

Are Chronic Wasting Disease Fears Making People Quit Deer Hunting?

By Christine Peterson

Yellowstone wolves

Wildlife Management

Yellowstone Park Superintendent Calls for Stricter Wolf Hunting Regulations In Montana

A mountain lion in a tree.

Wildlife Management

Wade Lemon, the Utah Outfitter Who Infamously Guided Donald Trump Jr., Will Do Prison Time for Running ‘Canned’ Mountain Lion Hunts

A trio of feral hogs disturb the soil.

Wildlife Management

As If Feral Hogs Weren’t Bad Enough, They’re Probably Helping Spread Invasive Plants

A bobwhite quail in South Texas.

Wildlife Management

Texas Bird Hunters Helped Fund a New Drug That’s Saving Wild Quail

A bear in a forest in Romania.

Wildlife Management

Brutal Bear Attack on 19-Year-Old Hiker Prompts Romanian Government to Cull Hundreds of Brown Bears

HSUS's Maine state director, Katie Hansberry, hands out pamphlets at farmers market in the state in 2013, urging a referendum to be put on the ballot to ban bear hunting by baiting, with hounds or by trapping.

Wildlife Management

Podcast: Here’s How Hunting Gets Banned

By Alex Robinson

A young deer fawn lying in a prescribed burn area.

Wildlife Management

No, Your Prescribed Burn Isn’t Killing Loads of Fawns and Turkey Poults

By Natalie Krebs

A USFWS biologist with a collared goose.

Wildlife Management

Hunting and Fishing Makes Us Better Environmental Stewards, Study Shows

A grizzly bear in a meadow.

Wildlife Management

Alberta Brings Back Grizzly Hunting, But Only for ‘Problem’ Bears

A mountain lion in the trees.

Wildlife Management

Anti-Hunting Group Gets Enough Signatures to Put a Cougar Hunting Ban on the Colorado Ballot This Fall

By Natalie Krebs

A grizzly bear eats an elk.

Wildlife Management

Watch: Grizzly Bear Eats a Cow Elk That’s Still Alive

A fawn waiting for its mother to return.

Wildlife Management

With the Spread of Chronic Wasting Disease, It’s Now Illegal to Rehabilitate Fawns in Tennessee

Four biologists with Atlantic sturgeon

Wildlife Management

Massive 200-Plus-Pound Sturgeon Caught Just Upriver from New York City

A pair of caribou with antlers face off on a tundra hillock.

Wildlife Management

BLM Officially Blocks the Ambler Road, a 211-Mile Industrial Corridor Through Alaska’s Iconic Brooks Range

By Natalie Krebs

A family of loons in Washington State.

Wildlife Management

Officials Offer $6K Reward to Find the Poacher Who Shot a Family of Loons in Washington State

A Missouri fawn with a tick infestation in its right eye.

Wildlife Management

Can Ticks Kill Fawns? As Ticks Get Worse, More Fawns Could End Up Like This Missouri Deer

By Natalie Krebs

William shatner flips off the camera.

Wildlife Management

First Nations Group Demands Apology After William Shatner Tells Salmon Farmers to ‘F*ck Off’

A polar bear in Canada.

Wildlife Management

Grizzlies and Polar Bears Are Breeding in Canada. This Is Why Hybrids Might Become More Common

Two mule deer running away from recreation noise.

Wildlife Management

Watch: Elk and Deer Are More Pressured by Noisy Hikers Than Four-Wheelers, Study Finds

By Natalie Krebs

A caribou herd on a hill.

Wildlife Management

Alaska Officials Kill 81 Bears, 14 Wolves to Help Caribou Calves

By Natalie Krebs

A screenshot of a video of a grizzly bear that looks like a black bear.

Wildlife Management

Idaho Hunter Avoids Charges for Killing Grizzly Because State Wildlife Officials Misidentified the Bear, Too

montana mule deer

Wildlife Management

Montana Police Chief Faces Felony Charges for Illegally Hunting on Tribal Lands and Tampering with Witnesses

By Alex Robinson

CJ Alexander buck 2

Wildlife Management

CJ Alexander Pleads Not Guilty to 23 Criminal Charges as Poaching Trial Begins in Ohio

By Hayden Sammak, Dac Collins

Wildlife Management

The Wake Surfing Problem: Big Waves and Big Controversy Are Coming to a Lake Near You

By Christine Peterson

An anti-hunting activist in bright clothing stands on top of a vehicle at a public boat ramp in Australia.

Wildlife Management

During Australia’s Duck Season ‘Circus’ Anti-Hunting Activists Will Steal Your Birds, Paddle Through Your Decoys, and Film Your Kids

Story and Photos by Natalie Krebs

A wolf runs through a field in Colorado.

Wildlife Management

Colorado Green-Lights Lethal Management of Gray Wolves, Under Certain Conditions

A gray wolf stands in a forest.

Wildlife Management

Hunter Who Mistakenly Killed a Wolf Hundreds of Miles from Its Home Range Won’t Be Charged

Wildlife Management

Anti-Hunting Groups Are Running a Paid Signature Campaign to Ban Cougar Hunting in Colorado. Conservation Orgs Launch “Decline to Sign” Effort

By Andrew McKean

A mountain lion on a rock.

Wildlife Management

A Mountain Lion Was Shot in Alaska for the First Time in 35 Years

invasive species shoes

Wildlife Management

This Italian Footwear Brand Is Making High-End Sneakers Out of Pythons, Carp, and Other Invasive Species

A whitetail doe's head rests in the leaves after a hunt.

Wildlife Management

Does Chronic Wasting Disease Infect Humans? Despite Shocking Headlines, Recent Research Suggests It Does Not

By Alex Robinson

redfish regulations

Wildlife Management

Louisiana Will Tighten Redfish Harvest Restrictions for the First Time Since the 1980s

A black bear swats an alligator mid-river.

Wildlife Management

Watch: Black Bear Fights Off Two Gators While Swimming Across a Florida River

Close-ups of two trophy mule deer.

Wildlife Management

Former Utah Wildlife Commissioner Under Investigation for Baiting Mule Deer on Outfitted Ranch

Biologists process euthanized deer.

Wildlife Management

Texas Officials Kill Off Deer Breeder’s Entire Herd, Ending Yearslong Legal War Over CWD Management

bear scat identification

Wildlife Management

How to Identify Bear Scat

A man jumps off a boat and tries to body slam an orca.

Wildlife Management

Watch: New Zealand Man Fined for Trying to Body-Slam a Killer Whale

A diver spears an invasive lionfish beside an artificial reef in Florida.

Wildlife Management

Photos from the World’s Biggest Lionfish Derby

Photographs by Rayna O'Nan, Story by Natalie Krebs

A skunk attempts to eat a live fawn that's bedded in cover and bleating in distress.

Wildlife Management

Watch: Skunk Tries to Eat a Live Whitetail Fawn

By Natalie Krebs

montana mule deer

Wildlife Management

Montana Raises Record Funds for a Coveted Mule Deer Tag — Through a Public Raffle

By Andrew McKean

Male mallard duck in flight sets record speed.

Wildlife Management

Migrating Mallard Clocked at 103 MPH, Breaking Recent Speed Record

A deer eating mushrooms

Wildlife Management

Mushrooms Are a Deer’s Secret Favorite Food. Here’s How to Grow an Easy Mushroom Food Plot

By Natalie Krebs

A collared wolf in a snowy forest.

Wildlife Management

One of Colorado’s Reintroduced Wolves Was Found Dead. It Was Probably Killed by a Mountain Lion

Two wolves walk over a hill in Yellowstone.

Wildlife Management

Nevada’s First Wolf Pack Sighting in 100 Years Was Actually a Group of Coyotes, Officials Confirm

A Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency vehicle.

Wildlife Management

Tennessee Judges Rein in Game Wardens, Declaring Warrantless Searches on Private Land Unconstitutional