Latest Conservation biology Stories

Daylong event on March 15 on science of bringing extinct species back to life will be webcast at livestreamTEDx and nationalgeographic.com/deextinction WASHINGTON, March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- TEDxDeExtinction, hosted by the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C., on Friday, March 15, will be the first public forum on the groundbreaking science surrounding efforts to bring extinct species back to life, and the ethical and conservation issues that may arise....

Organization for Bat Conservation staging hands-on presentations at 14 nature centers throughout southeast Michigan to facilitate better understanding - and love - for bats BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich., March 11, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bats navigate by echolocation, but the world's sole flying mammals fly under the radar screen when it comes to positive first impressions among the public. Volunteers at the Cranbrook Institute of Science-based non-profit Organization for Bat Conservation...

Alan McStravick for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online Scientists exploring the speed and scope of climate change have often looked at flora and fauna in a particular region as a major indicator. Many of these plant species will adjust their inner clock leading to earlier and earlier periods of bloom. However, not all biological life forms are able to adjust to a change in climate so quickly, according to a recent report published by the European Environmental Agency. It is for this...

NEW YORK, March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, The Rockefeller Foundation announced a $2 million grant to the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society in support of the Health & Ecosystems: Analysis of Linkages (HEAL) initiative. This grant will support two of HEAL's five core modules enabling the Wildlife Conservation Society and its partners to conduct work in Southeast Asia and Madagascar that examines the relationships between conserved ecosystems and several...

Wildlife Conservation Society Some species keeping their distance, while others cozy up to human neighbors As part of the study, scientists sampled the presence of 20 species of birds both near and far from 30 rural residences in the Adirondack Park. Calculating their occurrence at increasing distances from the residences, they determined that "human-adapted" species are 36 percent more likely to occur near the homes than in the surrounding mixed hardwood-conifer forests, and that...

Rocket21™ (the youth social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and futures) and Turner Endangered Species Fund (supporting endangered species conservation efforts) honored engineering students at Woodland Park, CO High School with a “Dream Big in the Wild” special event on Wednesday, February 13th. San Francisco and Bozeman, MT. (PRWEB) February 15, 2013 Rocket21™ (the youth social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and...

Brett Smith for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online A new report from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) warns that not only are a large number of reptile species in danger of becoming extinct, there is also a severe lack of data on the conservation status of many reptiles around the world. According to the report, about one in five reptiles is currently endangered, and 12 percent are classified as ‘critically endangered.’ The research team, which included scientists from the...

Peter Suciu for redOrbit.com – Your Universe Online German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche famously said “that which does kill us makes us stronger,” but apparently he didn’t understand the complexities of biodiversity. If he had, he might have noted that extinction could influence biodiversity as much as evolution. This is what researchers at the University of Melbourne and the University of Tasmania have discovered while examining plant diversity in South East Australia. Their...

Wildlife Conservation Society Fishing communities living on the islands of Indonesia's Karimunjawa National Park have found an important balance, improving their social well-being while reducing their reliance on marine biodiversity, according to the Wildlife Conservation Society and the University of Western Australia. Over the past 5 years, the Government of Indonesia has turned Karimunjawa National Park—a marine paradise of turquoise seas and mangrove-ringed islands in the Java Sea...

Rocket21™ (the youth social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and futures) and Turner Endangered Species Fund (supporting endangered species conservation efforts) delighted 5th graders at San Bruno’s Portola Middle School with a “Dream Big in the Wild” special event on Wednesday, February 6th. San Francisco, CA. and Bozeman, MT (PRWEB) February 08, 2013 Rocket21™ (the youth social network where kids explore amazing possibilities for their lives and...