wildlife

The Missouri Department of Conservation received some reports of the disease already. It is trying to determine how widespread the disease is.

A study ranked the top 10 stretches of road that could benefit from wildlife infrastructure, but don’t expect an animal bridge over I-70 anytime soon.

The Anhinga bird has been sighted in the area since late July.

The plains spotted skunk is becoming harder to find in the central U.S. states it calls home. As federal officials consider the skunk for federal protections, researchers and environmentalists are hoping to learn more about the long understudied species.

During a typical spring migration, hundreds of thousands of snow geese can descend on the wetlands at the Loess Bluffs National Wildlife Refuge on a given day in late February and early March.

Scientists say leaving autumn leaves on the ground can add important nutrients to the soil and create needed habitat for insects.

University of Missouri scientists are revolutionizing how waterfowl are counted by using drones and artificial intelligence to identify and tally birds with over 95% accuracy. The technology, developed in partnership with the Missouri Department of Conservation, promises faster, cheaper, and more precise wildlife surveys without disturbing the animals.

Missourians now have fewer places to hunt and fish.

A nesting pair of the protected birds have made their home in the Kansas City suburb. Blue Springs and the state conservation department have set up Missouri's only live feed for viewers to follow their journey to bird parenthood.

The strategy has helped to nearly double the annual poundage of carp removed from the Mississippi in the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities area alone.