News tagged with nature reserves
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.
May 28, 2012 |
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Spectacular mammal rediscovered after 113 years -- first ever photographs taken
(PhysOrg.com) -- A unique and mysterious guinea-pig-sized rodent, not seen since 1898 despite several organized searches, bizarrely showed up at the front door of an ecolodge at a nature reserve in Colombia, ...
May 19, 2011 |
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End to cheap coal closer than we thought?
(PhysOrg.com) -- A report entitled "The End of Cheap Coal," published in the journal Nature by Richard Heinberg and David Fridley, suggests we may reach peak coal in the next two decades.
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Nov 22, 2010 |
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Economists list cheapest ways to save the world
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.
May 14, 2012 |
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DNA better than eyes when counting endangered species
Using genetic methods to count endangered eagles, a group of scientists showed that traditional counting methods can lead to significantly incorrect totals that they believe could adversely affect conservation ...
Mar 07, 2011 |
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'Fewer than 50 wild tigers' left in China
Fewer than 50 wild tigers remain in China, a conservation group said Monday, voicing hope that the Year of the Tiger would not be the last for the endangered cats.
Feb 08, 2010 |
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Dog attack kills 27 penguins at Australia's Cat Bay
Environmental officers in Australia were Thursday investigating the death of 27 penguins they believe were killed by a dog or a pack of dogs, ironically at Cat Bay.
May 10, 2012 |
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A mighty revealing mouse
Ten years ago, when Prof. Neville Pillay first started investigating the semi-desert-dwelling African striped mouse or Rhabdomys in the Goegap Nature Reserve near Springbok, Northern Cape, he never anticipated ...
Feb 01, 2012 |
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Small-scale gold mining impacts river algae in French Guiana
Small-scale gold mining in French Guiana is having long-term effects on diatoms, small single-celled algae, by eliminating the species that are most vulnerable to water turbidity. The findings come from research ...
Feb 29, 2012 |
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Rescuing endangered wild orchids from a man-made flood
You may have heard stories about emergency rescues of plants or animals from habitats facing imminent destruction. This is one of those stories, except that the scope of the rescue is unprecedented and the ...
Apr 11, 2012 |
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Zoning boundaries can make good neighbors in conservation
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 ...
Oct 28, 2011 |
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Five countries sign for 'European Amazon' reserve
Five central European countries signed an accord to launch a cross-border nature reserve in an area known as Europe's Amazon at a meeting of environmental ministers that ended Saturday.
Mar 27, 2011 |
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Scotland's first marine reserve already producing benefits
Scotland's first fully protected marine reserve, and only the second in the UK, is already providing commercial and conservation benefits, according to new research.
Apr 22, 2011 |
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Critically endangered Amur leopards captured on video
Recent video footage from a survey on a group of critically endangered Amur leopards in the Russian Far East has yielded unexpectedly positive results, giving evidence that some wild groups of the big cat ...
Jul 13, 2011 |
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New theory provides better basis for biodiversity conservation
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.
Sep 13, 2010 |
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