It was a dark time for animals. Poaching was rampant. Wild birds and mammals were being slaughtered by the thousands. An out-of-control wildlife trade was making once-common animals hard to find and pushing rare species into ...
Ecology
Jul 3, 2020
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Human impacts on the environment are changing many biological responses, with effects on rare species and human health, but predicting such responses is complicated, according to a new paper by a University of Canterbury ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 24, 2020
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Australia's most elusive bird, the Night Parrot, may not be much better at seeing in the dark than other parrots active during the day.
Plants & Animals
Jun 9, 2020
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Giant tortoises amble across Cousin Island as rare birds flit above.
Ecology
Jan 16, 2020
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Land conservation programs that have converted tens of thousands of acres of agricultural land in Illinois back to a more natural state appear to have helped some rare birds increase their populations to historic levels, ...
Ecology
Jan 23, 2019
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A hawk that is native to Central and South America drew a lot of attention from Maine's birding community Friday after appearing in a park, where it brawled with a fellow raptor and dined on a squirrel.
Ecology
Nov 30, 2018
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A team of researchers from the U.S. and Germany has found that many whooping cranes pair up even before they are old enough to mate. In their paper published in the journal Animal Behavior, the group describes their study ...
Critically endangered Swift Parrots are under threat from squirrel-like sugar gliders in a battle for space in Australia's ancient forests, scientists said Wednesday as they race to save the rare birds.
Ecology
Oct 18, 2017
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New Zealand has set itself an environmental goal so ambitious it's been compared to putting a man on the moon: ridding the entire nation of every last rat, possum and stoat.
Ecology
May 12, 2017
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Outside of human influences, why do rare plant species persist instead of dwindling away to extinction? It's a question that has plagued ecologists for centuries. Now, for the first time, scientists at Penn State and Universidad ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 3, 2016
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