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A new study by scientists at the University of York and the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) shows that bird species which have colonised the UK in recent decades breed initially almost exclusively in nature reserves and other areas specially protected for wildlife. http://phys.org/news284794676.html Biology Wed, 10 Apr 2013 06:38:03 EST news284794676 The head of Russia's Olympic committee said Wednesday that his country was set to host the greenest Games ever when the winter version of the sports extravaganza opens in the Black Sea resort of Sochi in a year's time. http://phys.org/news277576204.html Technology Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:30:11 EST news277576204 A new study led by researchers from the University of York suggests protected areas in East Africa are not conserving plants such as the iconic Acacia tree. http://phys.org/news271509012.html Biology Wed, 07 Nov 2012 11:10:19 EST news271509012 Amphibians are the vertebrate group that is more likely to become roadkill in Catalonia, even more so than reptiles, mammals and birds. This is the case according to an international team of scientists who have concluded that highly protected areas are home to more cases of animal death on the roads. http://phys.org/news270297227.html Biology Wed, 24 Oct 2012 11:41:50 EST news270297227 For the first time, scientists at UNSW have investigated the likely impact of planned environmental flows on farmlands and nature reserves around the Murray-Darling Basin. http://phys.org/news270284278.html Space & Earth Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:58:13 EST news270284278 Will future conservation policies have to take account of the genetic diversity within each species ? A large-scale study into plants found at high altitude throughout the Alps and the Carpathians, has enabled an international team of 15 laboratories to show that environments where genetic diversity of species is the highest are not necessarily those with the greatest number of species. The results, published on 25 September 2012 in Ecology Letters, open up new perspectives regarding strategies for the protection of biodiversity. http://phys.org/news268898938.html Biology Mon, 08 Oct 2012 07:09:06 EST news268898938 A new study led by scientists at the University of York has shown how birds, butterflies, other insects and spiders have colonised nature reserves and areas protected for wildlife, as they move north in response to climate change and other environmental changes. http://phys.org/news264067044.html Biology Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:00:02 EST news264067044 The 14 years of wildlife studies in and around Madagascar's Ranomafana National Park by Sarah Karpanty, associate professor of wildlife conservation at Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources and Environment, and her students are summarily part of a paper on biodiversity published July 25 by Nature's Advanced Online Publication and coming out soon in print. http://phys.org/news263573158.html Biology Tue, 07 Aug 2012 15:46:05 EST news263573158 A new strategy to manage invasive species and achieve broader conservation goals is being tested in the Grand River Grasslands, an area within the North American tallgrass prairie ecoregion. A University of Illinois researcher along with his colleagues at Iowa State and Oklahoma State Universities enlisted private landowners in a grassroots community-building effort to establish a more diverse landscape for native wildlife. http://phys.org/news261157996.html Biology Tue, 10 Jul 2012 16:53:42 EST news261157996 Leading economists have ranked how to best and most cost-effectively invest to solve many of the world's seemingly insurmountable problems, a Danish think-tank said Monday, calling for a shift in global priorities. http://phys.org/news256186060.html Space & Earth Mon, 14 May 2012 04:20:01 EST news256186060 As the world's biodiversity hotspots are increasingly stressed by their human neighbors, zoning is becoming a common strategy to balance environmental protection and human needs. But a recent study shows zoning for conservation demands reality checks. http://phys.org/news239012122.html Biology Fri, 28 Oct 2011 09:15:31 EST news239012122 Cities are generally regarded as hostile for wildlife and urbanization a dramatic form of destruction of natural habitats. Still, they are far from dead zones. Their biodiversity may even exceed that of surrounding landscapes, owing to heterogeneous environments and frequent localization in naturally rich areas that historically supplied diverse resources for their human inhabitants. http://phys.org/news237200529.html Biology Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:02:16 EST news237200529 China needs to change where it sites its nature reserves and steer people out of remote rural villages toward cities to protect its valuable but threatened wild plant resources, according to an article published in the September issue of BioScience. http://phys.org/news234587744.html Biology Wed, 07 Sep 2011 04:15:54 EST news234587744 Five southern African countries signed an agreement Thursday to create a giant conservation zone in the Okavango and Zambezi river basins that stretches over an area half the size of France. http://phys.org/news232899880.html Space & Earth Thu, 18 Aug 2011 16:00:01 EST news232899880 A mathematical model that provides a more effective basis for biodiversity conservation than existing frameworks has been developed by a researcher at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. http://phys.org/news203591356.html Biology Mon, 13 Sep 2010 10:20:01 EST news203591356 Even though organic methods may increase farm biodiversity, a combination of conventional farming and protected areas could sometimes be a better way to maintain food production and protect wildlife. http://phys.org/news203075778.html Biology Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:56:30 EST news203075778 Though much effort and many resources have been expended to protect the endangered giant panda, research by an international team of scientists shows that much suitable panda habitat is outside the nature reserves and areas where the panda is reported to live. http://phys.org/news199553929.html Biology Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:30:01 EST news199553929 The rapid growth of China's forests over the past 20 years makes them the fastest growing forest resources in the world, according to an assessment published in the November issue of BioScience. http://phys.org/news176387511.html Space & Earth Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:00:01 EST news176387511 A new study out today found that many nations throughout the world, including the United Kingdom, are seeing an annual increase in visitors to their conservation areas. http://phys.org/news165564974.html Space & Earth Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:17:02 EST news165564974 Deep in the heart of England's seemingly peaceful countryside, a fierce battle for survival is being waged between the domestic red squirrel, its tougher grey cousin -- and a new mutant arrival. http://phys.org/news159694630.html Biology Thu, 23 Apr 2009 08:38:30 EST news159694630 Rather than suppressing local communities in developing nations, nature reserves attract human settlement, according to a new study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley. http://phys.org/news134312673.html Space & Earth Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:04:33 EST news134312673