Tag: reintroductions

April 6, 2022

JWM: Fisher reintroduction going well in Olympic Peninsula

In the mid-1900s, fishers were extirpated from Washington state, despite being found historically in various parts of the U.S. Pacific Northwest. But high demand and prices for their pelts in...

March 15, 2021

More biodiversity makes for healthy bees

More diverse communities of bees in Michigan, including both native and nonnative pollinators, result in less virus spread. Researchers had already known about a previous hypothesis called the Dilution Effect,...

March 15, 2021

Wild Mexican wolves reach record numbers

The population of Mexican wolves has increased in the wild once again, reaching 186 individuals in the U.S. Southwest in 2020. Mexican wolves (Canis lupus baileyi) were nearly extirpated from...

July 21, 2020

More indigo snakes need to be released for reintroduction success

At the right angle, the second longest native snake in the United States and Canada is a shimmery black. But just blink and catch the orange-throated serpent in a different...

April 21, 2020

Reviving once extirpated Guam birds

Colored in drab brown with zebra-like stripes across its breast and standing about a foot tall, the Guam rail that zookeepers call Tasi isn’t much to look at in first...