March 1, 2021 Media Contact: TPWD News, Business Hours, 512-389-8030 AUSTIN – Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) has been discovered in a free-ranging 8 ½-year-old mule deer in Lubbock County, marking the first positive detection of Read more…
24 February 2021 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources’ 2020 surveillance of Iowa’s wild deer herd for the presence of chronic wasting disease has yielded 21 new positive deer, and has added two new counties Read more…
Feb 23, 2021 10:47 AM Hunters and landowners help increase white-tailed deer harvest and CWD sampling SHERIDAN – More than 300 samples were collected for chronic wasting disease testing during a recent CWD management hunt for Read more…
News Release For immediate release: February 22, 2021 Contact: Michael Crusan Saint Paul, Minn – Test results following the late-January depopulation of a Houston County white-tailed deer farm confirm nine additional cases of chronic wasting disease Read more…
As a result of the Department of Wildlife Resources’ (DWR) 2020 – 2021 chronic wasting disease (CWD) surveillance efforts, CWD was detected for the first time in Rappahannock County. The affected adult buck was harvested Read more…
Game and Fish continues to notify hunters of new areas where CWD is found. 2/3/2021 2:30:37 PM Cheyenne – The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has confirmed a new deer hunt area in the Cody Read more…
This site is a joint project of the Boone and Crockett Club, Mule Deer Foundation, and Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. These non-profit wildlife conservation organizations formed the Chronic Wasting Disease Alliance in January 2002 to address CWD. Other organizations have since joined the Alliance.
The mission of the CWD Alliance is to promote responsible and accurate communications regarding CWD, and to support strategies that effectively control CWD to minimize its impact on wild, free-ranging cervids including deer, elk, and moose.
The CWD Alliance and its partner organizations are committed to providing timely, scientifically accurate information regarding chronic wasting disease, its impacts on wildlife and humans, and recommendations for its control.
