— liquid nitrogen at 320-degrees below zero keeps cell samples from more than 10,000 animals frozen at the san diego zoo’s institute for conservation research. the institute is called the “frozen zoo.” — other places stores seeds for future food crisis read article : frozen zoo read article : the norwegian seed vault
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Tagged conservation
SAGE GROUSE NEWS
— the interior department, said the conservation plans could be enough to avoid a listing. such a designation, could have a broad impact on the west’s economy, including energy development read wall street journal article : u.s. to limit drilling to aid greater sage grouse
BISTATE SAGE GROUSE NOT LISTED
“Environmentalists and conservationists have long called for greater protection for sage-grouse habitats in Western states…Energy companies, meanwhile, have warned that a designation would effectively rope off Western lands to future oil and gas development.” read more: Bistate Sage Grouse Utah wildlife managers see reason to hope
NOAA PROPOSES REMOVAL OF MOST HUMPBACK WHALE FROM ENDANGERED STATUS
“NOAA’s proposal would consider 10 of the world’s 14 distinct populations of the whales “not warranted” for the endangered species list.” read more: Humpback endangered listing removal map of distinct populations by NOAA
CORAL GARDENING
Growing coral in Fiji to help rebuild coral reef.
WHY DID THE SALAMANDER CROSS THE ROAD?
—”The City of Kitchener has closed part of Stauffer Drive so that a colony of salamanders can cross safely from one side of the street to the other.” read article: here short video of them: here
“CONSIDER THE CLAM”
—“understanding behaviour in the wild helped create environments more conducive to procreation” read article : LIFE — endangered species in the 1960s
HIS NAME IS “HOLIDAY”
— “it’s a friendship that wouldn’t happen in the wild, but cure some of the loneliness for an animal on the edge of extinction” read article : scientists hope frozen zoo will save endangered species
TIGER POPULATION UP
“The population of tigers has increased in India from 1,706 in 2011 to 2,226 in 2014.” read article: India’s tiger population increases by 30% in past three years
CHERNOBYL BEARS
— “camera traps, used by a project assessing radioactive exposure impacts on wildlife, recorded the images” read article: brown bears return to chernobyl after a century away
FORMER SPECIAL OPERATIONS SNIPER NOW PROTECTING ENDANGERED RHINOS
“The greatest threat to Africa wildlife I believe is human encroachment into wilderness areas. The United Nations Population Division projects Africa’s number of human inhabitants will double to 2 billion by 2040. I have little confidence that we can mobilise the hearts and minds of a continent, with a common mindset of immediacy, that the long-term preservation of wildlife, is more beneficial than food on the table tonight. Couple this with a common lack of sufficient political will to save wildlife and we have a recipe for extreme challenge. This problem is not isolated to Africa though, which I think we all understand.”…
AGENT ORANGE HERBICIDE
— “herbicides put increasing pressure on monarch butterflies whose populations have dropped more than 80 percent while a plant they depend on, milkweed, has declined over 50 percent because of herbicides.” http://action.biologicaldiversity.org/o/2167/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=15765
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