Canada lynx are losing ground in Washington state, even as federal officials are taking steps to remove the species' threatened status under the Endangered Species Act.
Ecology
Apr 10, 2020
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The greater sage-grouse is an iconic bird that lives in the western United States, and its populations are in decline. A new study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management reveals that energy development has negative ...
Plants & Animals
Mar 6, 2020
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As reindeer go, the animals living on the Norwegian arctic archipelago of Svalbard might not be Santa's first choice. They're a smaller subspecies of their common mainland relatives, and to save energy they basically never ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 29, 2019
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Detection dogs trained to sniff out the scat of an endangered lizard in California's San Joaquin Valley, combined with genetic species identification, could represent a new noninvasive sampling technique for lizard conservation ...
Ecology
Oct 30, 2019
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Moving can be tough, but eventually most of us acclimate to new surroundings.
Ecology
Aug 26, 2019
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Elephants move faster and straighter when moving through risky areas, researchers have discovered, meandering more when safer.
Plants & Animals
Jun 13, 2019
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New research shows 75 percent of the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Central Florida will be highly vulnerable to erosion and inundation from rising tides by 2030, negatively impacting many coastal species' nesting ...
Environment
Apr 26, 2019
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Coyotes eat deer, but not enough to limit the deer population at a large scale. A new study of deer numbers across the eastern United States has found that the arrival and establishment of coyote predators has not caused ...
Ecology
Mar 20, 2019
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Translocation is an important management tool that has been used for more than 50 years to increase bighorn sheep population numbers in Arizona and to restore herds to suitable habitat throughout their historical range. Yet, ...
Ecology
Mar 6, 2019
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Two UBC Okanagan biologists, who have publicly solicited images of wild cats for their research, have answered that question.
Ecology
Jan 23, 2019
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