Google challenges nonprofits on ideas to use Glass
Google has a challenge for U.S. nonprofits.
Consumer & Gadgets
Apr 22, 2014
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News tagged with conservationist
Stranded whales to be euthanised in New Zealand
New Zealand conservation officials said Thursday they would have to euthanise eight pilot whales stranded on a remote beach where five others died earlier this week.
Plants & Animals
Jan 16, 2014
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Want to save the whales? Put a price on them says ASU professor
(Phys.org) —Overharvest by commercial whaling has been a well-recognized world threat to stable whale populations since the International Whaling Commission (IWC) issued a moratorium against commercial whaling in 1986. ...
Ecology
Jan 7, 2014
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Former 'Rat Island' in Alaska has whole new look
Five years after undertaking an effort to eradicate rats from a remote Alaska island, conservationists and federal wildlife officials are reporting success.
Ecology
Oct 23, 2013
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Tiger genome to help big-cat conservation
South Korean scientists said on Tuesday they had carried out the first DNA analysis of the tiger and four other great felines in a project to help critically-endangered cats to survive.
Biotechnology
Sep 17, 2013
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Amazon deforestation due in part to soybean growing
Fighting deforestation of the Amazon for cattle raising and farming is one of the great rallying cries of the world's conservationists.
Environment
Sep 17, 2013
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Pest-eating birds mean money for coffee growers, biologists find
In recent years, Stanford biologists have found that coffee growers in Costa Rica bolster bird biodiversity by leaving patches of their plantations as untouched rainforest.
Ecology
Sep 4, 2013
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Thailand seizes 100 kilos of ivory from Africa
Thai customs on Friday said they had arrested two Vietnamese air passengers after finding more than 100 kilograms (220 pounds) of ivory in their luggage on a flight from Angola.
Ecology
Aug 30, 2013
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Blogging Birds: The lives of Red Kites, told by computers
New ground-breaking technology is helping to tell the real-time story of Scotland's satellite-tagged red kites without any human input.
Plants & Animals
Aug 23, 2013
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Relating animals to humans could help conservation projects
New research by conservationists at the universities of Kent, Oxford, Columbia (USA) and Monash (Australia) suggests that people's tendency to relate more to animals that bear a resemblance to humans (anthropomorphism) could ...
Ecology
Aug 22, 2013
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