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

May 11, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0 |

A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society documents that intense development of the two largest natural gas fields in the continental U.S. are driving away some wildlife from their traditional wintering ...

Biology - Ecology

May 02, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 2

Conservationists with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have found that larger male gorillas living in the rainforests of Congo seem to be more successful ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

May 01, 2012 not rated yet 0 |

The first-known camera trap photos of an Amur leopard in China have recently been taken by protected area staff in Hunchun Amur Tiger National Nature Reserve in Jilin Province according to the Wildlife Conservation ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 25, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society commends the Russian government for creating a new national park to protect critically endangered Amur (Siberian) tigers and the world's rarest big cat: the Far Eastern leopard.

Biology - Ecology

Apr 13, 2012 not rated yet 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today a new strategy that draws on all of the resources and expertise across the institution – from its Zoos and Aquarium, Global Health Program, and Global ...

Biology - Ecology

Apr 11, 2012 not rated yet 0

A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the ARC Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, and other groups on more than 40 coral reefs in the Indian and Pacific Oceans indicates that "co-management"—a ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 19, 2012 4.8 / 5 (4) 1 |

A rapid increase in shipping in the formerly ice-choked waterways of the Arctic poses a significant increase in risk to the region's marine mammals and the local communities that rely on them for food security ...

Biology - Ecology

Mar 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

Researchers from the University of New Hampshire have found that many African farmers inaccurately perceive changes in climate and rainfall when compared with scientific data, highlighting the need for better ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Mar 14, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A study of the tropical coral reef system along the coastline of Kenya has found dramatic effects of overfishing that could threaten the long-term health of the reefs. Led by scientists at the University of California, Santa ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 27, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

A new study by the University of California, Berkeley, Wildlife Conservation Society, and others uses a new scientific methodology for establishing marine protected areas in Madagascar that offers a "diversified ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Feb 24, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and the Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP) announced today Sumatra's first ever successful sentence of an illegal orangutan owner and trader in Medan, ...

Biology - Ecology

Feb 23, 2012 not rated yet 0

Three new wildlife sanctuaries for Ganges River and Irrawaddy dolphins declared by the Government of Bangladesh.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 16, 2012 5 / 5 (1) 0

The Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Peru program announced today the discovery of 365 species previously undocumented in Bahuaja Sonene National Park (BSNP) in southeastern Peru.

Biology - Ecology

Feb 02, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 0

A recently published study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and others reveals that humpback whales on both sides of the southern Indian Ocean are singing different tunes, unusual since humpbacks in the ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Feb 01, 2012 5 / 5 (2) 1 |