A taste for wild meats such as pangolins and civets, often known as 'forest foods' in tropical and subtropical regions, makes the emergence of another global pandemic increasingly likely, four international organisations ...
Ecology
Nov 16, 2020
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COVID-19 probably originated as a virus that jumped from wild animals to humans. So some conservation organisations have used the pandemic to campaign against the hunting and consumption of wildlife—and so to prevent future ...
Ecology
Nov 10, 2020
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Scientists at the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation (KSLOF) have released their findings on the state of coral reefs in Palau. Their research, based on extensive underwater surveys, found Palau's reefs had the highest ...
Ecology
Oct 19, 2020
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By placing 3-D-printed and GPS-enabled decoy sea turtle eggs into nests on the beach, it's possible to gather key evidence needed to expose rampant illegal trade of the eggs, suggests a study publishing in the journal Current ...
Plants & Animals
Oct 5, 2020
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An interactive map developed by the Environmental Justice Atlas team at the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (ICTA-UAB) reveals that certain forms of wildlife conservation ...
Ecology
Oct 5, 2020
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"The grass is always greener on the other side," as the saying goes, but in this case, it's more diverse. Researchers from Japan have discovered that old grasslands have higher plant diversity than new ones, and that grassland ...
Ecology
Sep 10, 2020
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In their efforts to better understand ongoing wildlife trafficking and the dynamics of unsustainable bear product use by consumers in Cambodia, a team of researchers led by San Diego Zoo Global made an unexpected discovery: ...
Ecology
Jun 29, 2020
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For many years, the conservation community has embraced the idea that improving connectivity, that is, creating corridors so species can follow their preferred climate, will benefit biodiversity, says Toni Lyn Morelli at ...
Ecology
Apr 30, 2020
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During a global extinction crisis and rapidly changing world, many nations are now looking to harden their borders to restrict the movement of people.
Plants & Animals
Apr 29, 2020
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Indonesia is home to the third-largest tropical forest after the Amazon and Congo. These forests have high biodiversity values and Indonesia has set aside million of hectares as conservation forests to protect the country's ...
Environment
Apr 2, 2020
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