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Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Conservation. Show all posts
Sunday, February 25, 2024

Study provides rare glimpse of the ringtail, an important but poorly understood predator

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Ringtail Photo Credit: Jonathan Armstrong, Oregon State University Secretive species can pose special conservation challenges simply because...
Monday, February 19, 2024

Spy-satellite images offer insights into historical ecosystem changes

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A large forest clear-cut from the 1960s in the vicinity of a one-hectare forest research plot in the Southern Black Forest Region. Although ...
Monday, February 12, 2024

Genetic analysis and archaeological insight combine to reveal the ancient origins of the fallow deer

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Fallow deer Photo Credit:  Nick Fewings Modern populations of fallow deer possess hidden cultural histories dating back to the Roman Empire ...
Thursday, December 21, 2023

How technology and economics can help save endangered species

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The gray wolf is among the animals protected by the Endangered Species Act. Image Credit: Oregon Department of Fish & Wildlife ( CC BY-S...
Thursday, December 14, 2023

Bats declined as Britain felled trees for colonial shipbuilding

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A western barbastelle. Photo Credit: Antton Alberdi Bat numbers declined as Britain’s trees were felled for shipbuilding in the early coloni...
Tuesday, December 12, 2023

Allured by Night Light

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Skyglow — how bright the night sky is because of artificial light — is a top predictor of where large numbers of migrating birds are going t...
Monday, November 6, 2023

European wildcats avoided introduced domestic cats for 2000 years

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A wildcat which is part of the Saving Wildcats conservation breeding for release program which conducted the first release of wildcats to th...
Saturday, October 28, 2023

Native waterfall-climbing fish threatened by climate change, human activity

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ʻOʻopu nākea is a type of goby fish found only in Hawaiʻi. Photo Credit: Courtesy of University of Hawaiʻi New research out of the Universit...
Thursday, October 26, 2023

Endangered whales live in area earmarked for gas exploration

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Risso's dolphins. Photo Credit Leonidas Karantzas/Greenpeace Endangered whales and dolphins live year-round in an area of the Mediterran...
Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Killer whales’ diet more important than location for pollutant exposure

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Photo Credit:  Thomas Lipke Both elegant and fierce, killer whales are some of the oceans’ top predators, but even they can be exposed to en...
Thursday, October 19, 2023

Cut emissions and improve farming to protect wilderness

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Photo Credit:  Dave Willhite Humanity must cut carbon emissions and use farmland more efficiently to protect our planet’s remaining wilderne...
Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Marine mammals in zoos and aquariums now live 2-3 times longer than in the wild

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Photo Credit:  Los Muertos Crew A new study provides compelling evidence that animal care and management practices at zoos and aquariums hav...

Critical step made for managing brushtail possums

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Researchers say mapping the genetic code of the brushtail possum will benefit those working to both conserve and control the animal. In a fi...
Tuesday, October 17, 2023

How to help save plants from extinction

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California lilac, a species whose critical limits were obtained for this project Photo Credit: Karen Udy Chang/Wikimedia Commons Now is the ...
Monday, October 16, 2023

Genomic analysis in snakes shows link between neutral, functional genetic diversity

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Eastern massasauga rattlesnake. Photo Credit: Scott Martin In the world of threatened and endangered species conservation, the genomic revol...

Study indicates majority of endangered greater glider habitat in QLD unprotected

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Greater Glider (Petauroides volans) in a Eucalypt taken by Sam Horton in South East Queensland for the Wildlife Queensland and the Glider Ne...
Friday, October 13, 2023

Whaling wiped out far more fin whales than previously thought

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The study found current conservation efforts should be enough to help the Eastern North Pacific fin whale population rebound without becomin...

Boom in “ice ivory” trade of mammoth tusks presents new threat to elephants and environment

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A new study warns the close similarities between the tusks of elephants and mammoths poses threats to conservation and environment efforts C...
Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Tens of thousands of endangered sharks and rays caught off Congo

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Shark catch from one boat after a week at sea. Photo Credit: Phil Doherty Tens of thousands of endangered sharks and rays are caught by smal...
Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Killing remains a threat to Bornean orangutans

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Photo Credit:  Simone Millward University of Queensland research has found despite considerable conservation efforts, the illegal killing of...