Tag: United Kingdom

June 27, 2018

Are conservationists ignoring culture?

Conservationists tend to focus on safeguarding species that are ecologically or economically beneficial, limited in number or suffering severe population decline. But are they leaving out other important values? A...

March 19, 2018

In united animal kingdom, martens control invading squirrels

North America has its share of invasive species to contend with, but our own natives have been known to become invasives abroad, too. In the United Kingdom, where invasive American...

January 18, 2018

‘Sonic kayaks’ monitor life underwater

An interdisciplinary team in the United Kingdom has designed a “sonic kayak” that researchers and citizen scientists can use to eavesdrop on the ecosystem below and obtain underwater sound and...