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Researchers find local wildlife protection safeguards entire range
Wildlife conservation strategies may better protect mammals from human activities by treating animals’ ranges as multiple interacting small populations, a study finds. Charles Yackulic and colleagues analyzed historical range maps for 47 mammal spec…
New research shows dolphin by-catch includes genetic relatives
Dolphins along coast of Argentina could experience a significant loss of genetic diversity because some of the animals that accidently die when tangled in fishing nets are related. According to a new genetic analysis published this week in the…
MU grad student simulates 100 years of farming to measure agriculture’s impact on land and water quality
COLUMBIA, Mo. — Estimating the long-term impact of agriculture on land is tricky when you don’t have much information about what a field was like before it was farmed. Some fields in Missouri started producing crops more than a century ago — long…
UGA study finds moving animals not a panacea for habitat loss
Athens, Ga. — New University of Georgia research suggests moving threatened animals to protected habitats may not always be an effective conservation technique if the breeding patterns of the species are influenced by a social hierarchy.
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Texas A&M University becomes key player in global study to save Earth’s endangered species
Texas A&M University is one of 10 international partners involved in the global conservation study and subsequent scientific paper, “The Impact of Conservation on the Status of the World’s Vertebrates,” that is scheduled to be published in Science, …
Largest ever white-shouldered ibis count
A record-breaking 429 White-shouldered Ibis Pseudibis davisoni have just been recorded in Cambodia, making the known global population much larger than previously thought. With so many birds remaining in the wild the chances of conservation success …
Saving a million acre-feet of water through conservation and efficiency in California
September 8, 2010 — Oakland, Calif. — A new analysis released today by the Pacific Institute recommends specific actions that can annually save a million acre-feet of water quickly and at a lower economic and ecological cost than developing new …