Florida's fight against the invasive Burmese python has hit a new milestone: 5,000 snakes captured in the Everglades since wildlife managers started paying hunters to remove the destructive constrictors in 2017.
Ecology
Jul 30, 2020
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University of Cincinnati geography researchers have identified a tipping point for deforestation that leads to rapid forest loss.
Earth Sciences
Jan 7, 2020
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According to recent data, bird populations in North America have declined by approximately 2.9 billion birds, a loss of more than one in four birds since 1970. Experts say this bird loss will continue to grow unless changes ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 29, 2024
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Wildlife managers in Florida are finally moving to address an existential question: If the state is like an all-you-can eat buffet for invasive reptiles originally introduced as exotic pets, then why are some of those species ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 23, 2021
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Google Inc. has launched a beta version of an online portal called Wildlife Insights—its purpose is to help wildlife managers around the globe manage the wildlife in their part of the planet. The AI-based application lets ...
The San Juan River, a major tributary of the Colorado River located in the "Four Corners" region of the southwestern United States, is home to two native fish species—the Colorado pikeminnow and the Razorback sucker. Both ...
Plants & Animals
Nov 9, 2023
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European forests are in trouble. "Not because they're being lost," says University of Vermont scientist William Keeton. "Europe, actually, is greener and more heavily forested now than it has been in centuries." But many ...
Ecology
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A large international team of researchers reports that the amount of land designated as protected around the globe is shrinking. In their paper published in the journal Science, the researchers describe their study of protected ...
U.S. authorities on Friday gave wildlife managers in Washington, Oregon and Idaho permission to start killing hundreds of sea lions in the Columbia River basin in hopes of helping struggling salmon and steelhead trout.
Ecology
Aug 15, 2020
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(AP) -- The recent suspension of Alaska wildlife biologist Charles Monnett is unrelated both to an article that he wrote about presumably drowned Arctic polar bears and to his scientific work, a federal official said Friday.
Ecology
Jul 30, 2011
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