Scientists at Heriot-Watt have helped conservationists trying to protect rare natural habitats but challenged to know how well they're doing when there's no-where else to compare it to.

Biology - Ecology

May 08, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Leading international marine scientists have called for the protection of more, large marine wilderness areas in a bid to shield the world's dwindling stocks of fish from destruction.

Space & Earth - Environment

Apr 15, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The underwater conditions of the Bay of Bothnia are unique, and up until now very little has been known about this part of Finnish nature. The inventories of the recently completed FINMARINET project showed ...

Biology - Ecology

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(Phys.org) —The indicators currently being used to guide policy and investments into protected areas in the Amazon may not be having the desired effect.

Space & Earth - Environment

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Solutions that meet the broad, varied, and often competing priorities of conservation are difficult to come by. Research published in the March 28 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sc ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 25, 2013 3.7 / 5 (3) 0 |

Claudine Andre, a 67-year-old Belgian living in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has spent the last 20 years dedicated to the protection of the bonobo, an extraordinary species of ape threatened by trafficking ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 17, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 0

In the southern Rift Valley of Kenya, the Maasai people, their livestock and a range of carnivores, including striped hyenas, spotted hyenas, lions and bat-eared foxes, are coexisting fairly happily according ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 13, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 1

The Wildlife Conservation Society applauds the Government of Argentina for creating two enormous marine protected areas in Patagonia, a region filled with majestic shorelines and abundant wildlife.

Biology - Ecology

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A new camera-trapping study in India has revealed that leopards can occur at high densities in densely-populated and heavily-modified agricultural environments.

Biology - Ecology

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Australia's desert-dwelling bilby is under threat after floods destroyed a predator fence which allowed feral cats to kill 150 of the newborn marsupials, conservationists said Thursday.

Biology - Plants & Animals

Mar 07, 2013 5 / 5 (2) 1

Climate change, intensive farming and urban sprawl - are putting Europe's parkland and biological diversity under increasing pressure. The natural environment can only take so much pressure, before it becomes ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 06, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

Fishers near marine protected areas end up traveling farther to catch fish but maintain their social and economic well-being, according to a study by fisheries scientists at Washington State University and in Hawaii.

Biology - Ecology

Mar 05, 2013 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) largest remaining forest elephant population, located in the Okapi Faunal Reserve (OFR), has declined by 37 percent in the last five years, with only 1,700 elephants ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 28, 2013 not rated yet 0

Researchers have embarked on the first comprehensive study of human activity along the west Kimberley coast.

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 12, 2013 not rated yet 0

A new study led by Durham University and BirdLife International, shows that many bird species are likely to suffer under future climate change, and will require enhanced protection of important sites, better ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 04, 2013 5 / 5 (3) 2