Protected areas (PAs) are essential for biodiversity conservation but are threatened by cropland expansion. Recent studies predicted that approximately 500 million ha of additional croplands will be required in 2050 to address ...
Ecology
Mar 24, 2023
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The success of North American crops from corn to Christmas trees partly depends on a relatively invisible component of the food web—ground beetles. Nearly 2,000 species of ground beetle live in North America. New research ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 23, 2023
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Conserving native wildlife is a challenging task and Australia's unenviable extinction record shows us we urgently need more sophisticated and effective approaches.
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2023
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When natural habitats are cleared to make way for cities, roads and agriculture, this often leaves behind "islands" of fragmented habitat that can place species at risk of extinction. Species are at risk when they find it ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 22, 2023
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With increasing rates of extinction and biodiversity loss across the globe, scientists are debating whether we are living during the Earth's sixth mass extinction event, prompting a drive to accelerate our conservation efforts, ...
Ecology
Mar 15, 2023
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A group of researchers supported by FAPESP analyzed 192 news reports published on the internet between 2011 and 2021 on Brazilian deer species (Cervidae) in order to find out whether news of threats to these animals matched ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 15, 2023
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Australia has the world's worst mammal extinction record, with nearly 40 native mammal species lost since European colonization. By contrast, the United States has lost three.
Ecology
Mar 6, 2023
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Conservationists were celebrating Wednesday the first sightings in 24 years of the dusky tetraka, a yellow-throated songbird native to Madagascar for which ornithologists had feared the worst.
Ecology
Mar 1, 2023
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Mabu saunters across a grassy field and raises his long, gray trunk to wrangle food from a hole carved inside a large boulder, captivating the attention of a girl propped up on her father's shoulders.
Ecology
Feb 28, 2023
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Australia's rarest bird of prey—the red goshawk—is facing extinction, with Cape York Peninsula now the only place in Queensland known to support breeding populations.
Plants & Animals
Feb 27, 2023
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