Weaving Western and Indigenous knowledge together enhances conservation
Wildlife translocations will have better results if they are led, or genuinely co-led, by Indigenous peoples.
Wildlife translocations will have better results if they are led, or genuinely co-led, by Indigenous peoples.
Ecology
Aug 5, 2020
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Whakapapa [genealogy] binds tākata whenua [people of the land] to the mountains, rivers, coasts and other landscapes, linking the health of the people with that of the environment. Like humans, species have whakapapa that ...
Ecology
Aug 5, 2020
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A genome study has proven that all specimen of Marmorkrebs, or marbled crayfish, originate from a single female. About 30 years ago, the original clone evolved in an aquarium. Ever since, the female animals have been able ...
Ecology
Feb 5, 2018
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A new paper published in the Journal of Crustacean Biology provides an updated classification system that includes all the known crayfishes worldwide. This makes available a single, comprehensive taxonomic summary of all ...
Plants & Animals
Aug 8, 2017
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With its orange to greenishly orange motley tip, the new crayfish species has been long-confused with its relatives by the tradesmen who have been collecting them for ornamental purposes. Being exported to countries in Europe, ...
Ecology
Aug 25, 2015
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Nature sometimes copies its own particularly successful developments. A team of scientists from the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam and the Ben-Gurion University at Beer-Sheva in Israel has now ...
Plants & Animals
May 21, 2012
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