News tagged with conservationist

Homecoming buzz: short-haired bees return to UK

(AP) -- A conservationist says she is releasing 100 short-haired bees into the wild, 20 years after they were wiped out in the British countryside.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Modern Portfolio Theory' optimizes conservation practices: study

While climate change is likely to alter the spatial distributions of species and habitat types, the nature of those changes is uncertain, making it more difficult for conservationists to implement standard ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 15, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First satellite tag study for manta rays reveals habits and hidden journeys of ocean giants

Using the latest satellite tracking technology, conservationists from the Wildlife Conservation Society, the University of Exeter (UK), and the Government of Mexico have completed a ground-breaking study on ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 11, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Race to save the devil Down Under

It's been hundreds of years since the Tasmanian devil last lived on the Australian mainland but, in the misty hills of Barrington Tops, a pioneering group is being bred for survival.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 17, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Endangered species, languages linked at high biodiversity regions

Biodiversity hot spots -- the world's biologically richest and most threatened locations on Earth -- and high biodiversity wilderness areas -- biologically rich but less threatened -- are some of the most linguistically diverse ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Did climate change shape human evolution?

(Phys.org) -- As human ancestors rose on two feet in Africa and began their migrations across the world, the climate around them got warmer, and colder, wetter and drier. The plants and animals they competed ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 17 | with audio podcast

Camera trap video offers rare glimpse of world's rarest gorilla (w/ Video)

Conservationists working in Cameroon's Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary have collected the first camera trap video footage of the Cross River gorilla. With fewer than 250 individuals remaining, Cross River gorillas are the world's ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Biodiversity could be casualty of Myanmar openness

(AP) -- As many as 40,000 gorgeously plumed birds known as the Gurney's pitta thrive in the lowland rainforests of economically backward Myanmar. Across the border, Thailand's last five pairs are guarded around ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 07, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Wild dogs didn't go extinct in east Africa after all

In 1991, conservationists announced with dismay that endangered African wild dogs had gone extinct from the Serengeti-Mara region of east Africa. Now the latest genetic study reveals that this proclamation ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jan 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Borneo rainbow toad seen for 1st time in 87 years

Scientists scouring the mountains of Borneo spotted a toad species last seen in 1924 by European explorers and provided the world with the first photographs of the colorful, spindly legged creature, a researcher ...

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Jul 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Racing the clock: Rapid climate change forces scientists to evaluate extreme conservation strategies

Scientists are, for the first time, objectively evaluating ways to help species adapt to rapid climate change and other environmental threats via strategies that were considered too radical for serious consideration as recently ...

Biology / Ecology

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (76) | comments 8

Smells may help birds find their homes, avoid inbreeding

Birds may have a more highly developed sense of smell than researchers previously thought, contend scholars who have found that penguins may use smell to determine if they are related to a potential mate.

Biology / Plants & Animals

created Sep 21, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists call for more robust measures to identify and protect endangered species

Conservationists may need to change their approach to protecting animals and plants from extinction if they are to successfully shield key species and habitats from the effects of global climate change, according to a new ...

Biology / Ecology

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Species extinction rates have been overreported, new study claims

The most widely used methods for calculating species extinction rates are "fundamentally flawed" and overestimate extinction rates by as much as 160 percent, life scientists report May 19 in the journal Nature.

Biology / Ecology

created May 18, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Voyage to the centre of the 'Plastic Vortex'

A group of conservationists and scientists is due to set sail for an obscure corner of the Pacific Ocean in the coming months to explore a vast swirl of waste known as the "Plastic Vortex."

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created May 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (67) | comments 37

Conservationist

Conservationists are proponents or advocates of conservation. They advocate for the protection of all the species in an ecosystem with a strong focus on the natural environment. Conservation is a part of the wider environmental movement and promotes humankind's sustainable use of resources and environmental stewardship.

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