biodiversity conservation
Thanks to the pandemic, Americans are rediscovering birds at time that birds need to be noticed more than ever. Although a recent Audubon Society report shows that bird numbers have plummeted in North America over the last 50 years, millions of the feathered flyers are still migrating north to their seasonal breeding grounds. America’s newest […]
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The novel coronavirus sweeping the planet in 2020 has apparently followed a familiar path — from the depths of rainforests and other wild habitat to places human beings congregate, such as marketplaces and cooking hearths. We’ve already seen this happen with Ebola, which likely came to humans from chimpanzees used as “bush meat”; MERS, which […]
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The largest animal ever to have lived on Earth appears to be making a comeback. Record numbers of the Antarctic blue whale have been tallied off South Georgia Island in the South Atlantic, spurring hopes that this species will join the recovery of humpbacks and other whales that were once decimated by commercial whaling. Whaling […]
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India’s government has released a draft of an ambitious, 10-year plan to protect hundreds of threatened and endangered bird species. The draft is comprehensive, and includes recovery plans for endangered species, as well as a “landscape approach” that can protect birds in cities, and conserve critical habitat including wetlands and coastal regions. Subcontinent of birds […]
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And now for some good news about the spoon-billed sandpiper, which has the dubious distinction of being the world’s rarest wading-bird species. Conservationists netted several big wins in preserving habitat along the spoon-billed sandpiper’s migration route. And scientists in the United Kingdom announced that they successfully bred the bird in captivity for the first time. […]
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Romania’s forests are the oldest and wildest in Europe, but they are increasingly subject to destruction from illegal logging. Now, a rash of violence against forest rangers has spurred mass protests in the capital, and promises of a government crackdown. Violence in the forest If you complain about illegal timber cutting in Romania, there is […]
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