TWS thanks House subcommittee for discussing biodiversity loss
The Wildlife Society, alongside the American Fisheries Society and the National Wildlife Federation, sent a letter to the leadership of the House Natural Resources ...
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Watch: Biodiversity in Antarctica, thanks to poop
The Antarctic Peninsula can be a brutal place, but penguins and seals have created biodiversity hotspots, researchers found, thanks to their nitrogen-rich scat. ...
Student Research: Diverse Costa Rica spot at risk?
Adam Yaney-Keller was checking videos that showed up on his camera trap. He had placed the video camera at a small, dried-up waterfall pool where he thought he ...
More biodiversity means more ecotourism
Protected areas with more biodiversity tend to have more tourists, according to new research. That popularity can mean more money for conservation and help bolster ...
DNA Sequencing to help conservation
The journal Nature is voicing support for a massive project to sequence the DNA of every plant and animal on earth. The Earth BioGenome Project launched earlier ...
Working lands important for biodiversity
While wildlife refuges and other natural areas are important for conservation, recent research shows biodiversity on working lands — places where people raise ...
WWF finds global wildlife has declined 60 percent since 1970
The World Wildlife Fund’s 2018 Living Planet report demonstrates a global wildlife population loss of 60 percent between 1970 and 2014. The report, which tracks ...
‘Sixth extinction’ recovery will take millions of years
It will take millions of years to recover mammal diversity lost in “the current biodiversity crisis,” researchers concluded in a newly-published paper. In the ...
Habitat islands can help bees amid intensive agriculture
Intensive agriculture isn’t necessarily bad for bees, researchers have found, as long as they have habitat islands with high plant biodiversity. In a study in ...
If you can’t save everything, how do you choose?
If you can’t save all the endangered species in the world, which ones do you choose? It’s not an easy question for conservationists, but they do have a way to ...