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Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Reducing fishing gear could save whales with low impacts to California’s crab fishermen

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 Less gear in the water means fewer chances for Whales to become entangled. Photo Credit E. Lyman/ NOAA Sanctuaries Sometimes simple solutio...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Bird species changing faster than expected in protected areas

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The study compared bird communities during the breeding season inside and outside protected areas in Canada between 1997 and 2019. The resul...
Friday, September 29, 2023

Good news for the world’s rarest marine dolphin?

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Māui dolphins. Photo Credit: University of Auckland/Department of Conservation The tiny population – only about 54 Māui dolphins remain – li...
Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Atlantic walrus more vulnerable than ever to Artic warming

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Photo Credit:  Rod Long Past cycles of climate change, along with human exploitation, have led to only small and isolated stocks of Atlantic...
Saturday, June 17, 2023

The Egyptian vulture is a threatened bird of prey worldwide.

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The Egyptian vulture is a threatened bird of prey worldwide. Photo Credit: Conservation Biology Group, University of Barcelona If urban land...
Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Light pollution confuses coastal woodlouse

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A woodlouse underwater. Photo Credit:  Martin Stjernstedt Artificial night-time light confuses a color-changing coastal woodlouse, new resea...
Tuesday, June 13, 2023

Vaccine against deadly chytrid fungus primes frog microbiome for future exposure

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A new study led by researchers at Penn State found that a new vaccine against the deadly chytrid fungus in frogs can shift the composition o...
Monday, June 12, 2023

Climate Change: Rising Rainfall, not Temperatures, Threaten Giraffe Survival

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Masai giraffes in Tanzania have lower survival during seasons of heavier rainfall, which is predicted to increase under climate change. Phot...
Friday, June 9, 2023

Study finds the best plants and bee hotels for boosting urban bee numbers

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Photo Credit: Dr Kit Prendergast The presence of more native Australian flowering plants in urban areas can help boost declining bee numbers...
Monday, June 5, 2023

How Studying Poop May Help Us Boost White Rhino Populations

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White Rhinoceros with baby, being protected from poachers. Shot in the Kruger National Park, South Africa. Photo Credit:  Nadine Venter Rese...
Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Butterflies on the decline

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According to the analysis of the scientists, the orange tip (Anthocharis cardamines) is the only butterfly species in Europe for which a sig...
Wednesday, May 10, 2023

Researchers Track Endangered Nassau Grouper Eggs with Underwater Microscope

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Nassau grouper spawning aggregation off Little Cayman, Cayman Islands. Credit: Jason Belport  Photo Credit: Grouper Moon Project Scripps Oce...
Monday, May 1, 2023

iDNA from flies to track native species across Western Australian wheatbelt

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Carrion Fly Photo Credit:  Ian Lindsay Researchers from Curtin University have collected iDNA from flies to track the movements of Australia...
Wednesday, April 26, 2023

Predators decrease prey disease levels but also population size

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Microscope image showing a phantom midge larva (genus Chaoborus), top left, preying on a Daphnia dentifera water flea, bottom right. Chaobor...
Monday, April 17, 2023

Female butterflies breed despite male shortage

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Monarch Butterfly Photo Credit:  Erin Minuskin Female monarch butterflies have no trouble finding a mate – even when a parasite kills most o...
Tuesday, March 28, 2023

Turtle and crocodile species with unique characteristics are more likely to go extinct

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A Mugger Crocodile (Crocodylus palustris). In Pakistan, this species is still illegally hunted for its skin. Image Credit:  Bishnu Sarangi N...

Climate change threatens lemurs on Madagascar

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A female grey mouse lemur (Microcebus murinus) carrying an infant. Photo Credit: Manfred Eberle They are small, have a high reproductive out...
Monday, March 27, 2023

With fewer salmon to eat, Southern Resident killer whales spend less time in the San Juan Islands

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killer whales Photo Credit:  Michelle Klampe As a key food supply declines, the endangered population of Southern Resident killer whales, kn...
Thursday, March 23, 2023

At least 80% of the world’s most important sites for biodiversity on land currently contain human developments

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Photo Credit:  Siggy Nowak A study has found that infrastructure worldwide is widespread in sites that have been identified as international...
Tuesday, March 21, 2023

Recovery of endangered sunflower sea stars may play key role in restoring devastated submarine forests

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Sunflower sea stars, such as the one that appears in the foreground, could help keep purple sea urchins in check, according to new research ...