2025 Wildlife Diversity Program Annual Report
Publications by Wildlife Diversity Staff and Partners in 2025
Media Coverage cont. Staff interviews: Smokies Life writer Holly Bowman; articles on Hellbender federal listing and Hellbender research in the Smokies, picked up by multiple sources; https://smokieslife.org/2025/01/26/park-embarks-on-cutting-edge-hellbender-study/ https://www.biltmorebeacon.com/outdoor/amid-damage-from-helene-hellbenders-may-get-endangered-spe- cies-listing/article_228e30b2-d6bd-11ef-8605-4330a37c5143.html https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2025/01/28/word-from-the-smokies-hellbenders-may-get-endan- gered-species-listing/77696793007/ https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2025/01/25/word-from-the-smokies-park-embarks-on-cutting- edge-hellbender-study/77884854007/ https://smokymountainnews.com/archives/item/38981-hellbender-headline https://www.knoxnews.com/story/life/2025/01/29/great-smoky-mountains-national-park-embarks-on-new-hell- bender-study/77982577007/ https://www.knoxnews.com/story/life/2025/01/22/eastern-hellbender-salamanders-endangered-species-list- ing-after-hurricane-helene-damage/77842128007/ Staff interview: Vox magazine articles by Benji Jones; https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/419427/hicko- ry-nut-gorge-green-salamander-recovery-north-carolina-helene https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/420513/flooding-debris-removal-hurricane-helene-wildlife Staff interview: New York Times article by Mihir Zaveri; https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/travel/hellbenders-gi- ant-salamanders-north-carolina-rivers.html TEDxYouth@NCSSM Talk given by Gabrielle Graeter, Scales of Change: Reptile Conservation in a Changing World Scales of Change: Reptile Conservation in a Changing World | Gabrielle Graeter | TEDxYouth@NCSSM Olivia Munzer ( cbs news article on WNS , ABC news coverage bats in Wake County , CBS Evening News on WNS , N&O article on WNS , WRC social bat blog , WRC facebook video of bat mist netting ) Gabriela Garrison. WildThings: Wintering with the Pollinators Podcast on WHQR , Press Release with GA DNR on overwintering Monarchs , Gabriela Garrison. Video with Carolina All Out on pollinator habitat https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/ spotlights/2025/a-north-carolina-wildlife-crossing-will-save-people-can-it-save-the-last-wild-red-wolves-too/ https://environmentamerica.org/articles/momentum-for-wildlife-crossings-continues-to-grow/
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