Tag: islands

Editing the genes of invasive mice could drive them to extinction on islands where they’ve become established within 25 years, researchers found. By using the gene-editing tool CRISPR, researchers believe...

Islands are popular spots for birdwatching—places to get a glimpse of unusual resident species as well as migratory species passing through. As a result, islands have an outsize presence on...

Researchers recently found that biodiversity on small patches of landscape is even smaller than they expected. While biodiversity forecasts of certain areas are used to inform conservation and management policies,...

National parks are not out of the woods when it comes to being overrun by invasive species. In fact, invasives have invaded about half of the parks that were created...

Sea turtles use internal maps to migrate to small, isolated islands, but researchers found the turtles’ navigation systems don’t always guide them with perfect accuracy. While many researchers have studied...

Lizard research on tiny experimental islets in the Bahamas shows that prevailing ecological theory regarding the role of predators in ecosystems may not always be correct. Brown anoles (Anolis sagrei)...

On two islands in Ecuador’s Galapagos archipelago, a conservation group is using drones to drop toxicants meant to eliminate invasive rats that are causing problems for native animals and plants....

Invasive rats are notorious for their devastation of island ecosystems, but their damage might go deeper than scientists once believed. Biologists recently discovered that nonnative rats could impede the flow...