The Science and Conservation Center

Many thanks to our board members for making the trip to Montana last week for our annual in-person meeting! It takes a village to navigate the complexities of wildlife fertility control and we are grateful for ours.

We had a great group from Colorado Dept. of Agriculture and USDA Wildlife Services join us in June to train with Kayla. We're happy to have 9 more darting "graduates" helping in wild horse management!

Spring 2026 Newsletter - Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control Email from Botstiber Foundation Spring 2026 Newsletter 10th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control Conference Recap! On April 23–24, 2026, the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife

Check out this wonderful opportunity to see some wild horses with our colleagues at Friends of a Legacy!

2nd Annual Picnic in the Peaks , ,

Thanks to a grant from the Montana Native Plant Society and many helping hands from the ZooMontana Botanical Society, we were able to add 50 new native plants to Jay's Native American Medicinal Plant Garden! This fantastic team of volunteers showed up despite the cold and the garden looks AWESOME thanks to their efforts. Coming next is new educational signage with Indigenous plant names and uses - thanks again to the Montana Native Plant Society. We are so excited for these additions that will bring greater appreciation to the Indigenous knowledge and conservation value of our native plants!

We were thrilled to get some of the original "OGs" of wildlife fertility control science together this April at the International Wildlife Fertility Control Conference. The folks at the table represent some of the earliest days of wildlife fertility control research and program development and are the leading experts at South African elephant, urban deer, and wild horse population management.

What a fantastic opportunity for teens interested in wildlife and natural resource management - spread the word!

Wild Horse Summer Camps Offer Teens Hands On Learning and Careers in Conservation - SierraDailyNews.com University educators want to draw teenagers away from their phones and into the outdoors with a unique opportunity. They are offering 4-H summer camps focused on wild horse management and careers in natural resources. These camps target youths aged 9 to 18. The camps come […]

PZP fertility control works wonders in bears in zoos with efficacy rates of 95 to 98%. The Bear League of South Lake Tahoe hopes to soon implement fertility control in problem bears to disrupt the cycle of mother bears passing on dangerous behaviors to their cubs. We applaud the Bear League for thinking outside the box and hope to see this awesome project move forward!

Bear vaccination could be a solution for break-ins in Tahoe SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. – A vaccination called PZP could be a potential solution to stop mother bears teaching their cubs to break into houses, according to the BEAR League. Executive director Ann Bryant says...

Many thanks to those who supported us through Yellowstone Valley Gives 2026 and to the Billings Community Foundation for hosting the event! Raising awareness of what we do is just as important as raising funds, and Yellowstone Valley Gives helps us do both. We're grateful for our local and our global community.

Many thanks to the Botstiber Institute for Wildlife Fertility Control for the opportunity to expand our knowledge and our network at the 10th International Conference on Wildlife Fertility Control. We were fortunate to spend time with our Humane World for Animals South Africa partners who humanely manage elephants in dozens of South African elephant reserves and our parters with American Wild Horse Conservation who run the largest wild horse fertility control program in the country. The science of wildlife fertility control is bringing solutions to a growing number of species, we are proud to be among the ranks!