— “the population crunch is the result of large-scale habitat destruction – burning and clearing of tropical forests – as well as hunting for food and illegal wildlife trade” read article : more than half of the world’s primates on endangered species list
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LOG LESS LIVE MORE
— stopping illegal logging will not only save forests in the congo basin, it will protect american jobs and our climate. read article : stopping illegal logging will protect endangered species while saving american jobs
COMMERCIALIZATION OR CONSUMER EDUCATION?
— the airline is collaborating with international organisations to train and better equip its ground and cargo staff to detect and deal with illegal wildlife products in transit. as the required paperwork for movement of some wildlife products is often forged, emirates also made the decision to ban trophy shipments read article : emirates paints its planes with endangered animals
THE BUNDLE OF BEEF FAT HAD BEEN STRUNG UP 12 FEET HIGH
— keystone species are plants or animals that are so critical to an ecosystem that the landscape would dramatically change without them read article : soul mates; nutcrackers, whitebark pine, and a bond that holds an ecosystem together
IMPROVING THE SITUATION
— we are animals and we fit into a broader world of our local geology, meteorology, topography, plants and other organisms read article : capturing cacti before they disappear: q&a with cacti curator john trager more : huntington desert garden
SANS PHALLUS
— “scientists used pictures of the reptile embryos to recreate their 3d structure. the team discovered that, even though the tuatara has no external phallus, it grows the beginnings of one during development. at some point this “genital swelling” recedes and the reptiles are born sans phallus” read article : the penis only evolved once, suggests study of reptile embryos read more : resurrecting embryos of the tuatara, sphenodon punctatus, to resolve vertebrate phallus evolution
CONFRONTATION
the unprecedented scale of the wildlife crisis in the united states requires policymakers to develop new tools and strategies to halt the decline of wildlife species before they become imperiled and need the protection of the esa. this report proposes the establishment of a new category of wildlife designation—at risk— read article : confronting america’s wildlife extinction crisis
BLACK BEARS KICK IT
— one reason for the “success” of the hunt, besides the zealousness of men in camouflage (approved weapons: shotguns, bows, pistols, revolvers, and crossbows), is, the sheer naïveté of florida’s wild black-bear population. having not been hunted in two decades has left the population a bit soft in the stomach. read article : florida called off its big black-bear hunt after it became a black-bear massacre
IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL HABITAT
— instead of sending the experts out into the large tracts of inaccessible territory, they can bring that territory to the experts, mengersen noted. using information gathered from field trips, she and her team are creating virtual platforms for experts to visit without leaving the laboratory. read article : scientists use avatar-inspired techniques to help endangered species
TRACING THE GREAT DYING
— impressively, the real-life food web was the most resilient possible combination of the species alive at the time. in other words, nature’s instruction manual built the most stable systems. read article : who dies and who survives during a mass extinction?
NEW CONSERVATION
— by the end of the century, according to projections, as many as 10 billion humans will be competing with other species for available space. and changes in climate are already forcing species to move into new terrains, migrations that will increase in the future read article : a shifting approach to saving endangered species
THRIVING PEREGRINES
— birds that migrate at night make different sounds and give different calls while flying in the dark, than they do in the day. read article : peregrine falcon population sees record growth more : falcons in migrating season over the cape and islands
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