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Powerful Tool to Fight Wildlife Crime Unveiled
September 11, 2012 A free high-tech tool to combat the wildlife poaching crisis was offered to grassroots rangers by a consortium of conservation ... > full story -
Continuing Management Needed for Most Threatened and Endangered Species, Experts Say
September 10, 2012 The Endangered Species Act can help some species avoid extinction, but most will require continuing management after they have been removed from the Act's protections. Species-specific conservation ... > full story -
Food Production and Wildlife Can Coexist If Land Use Is Planned at a Bigger Scale
September 10, 2012 A larger-scale approach to sustainable farming could be more beneficial for wildlife than our current system of farm-based agri environment payments, say researchers working in the ... > full story -
Destroyed Coastal Habitats Produce Significant Greenhouse Gas
September 6, 2012 Destruction of coastal habitats may release as much as one billion tons of carbon emissions into the atmosphere each year, 10 times higher than previously reported, according to a new ... > full story -
Conservation Scientists Call Policy-Makers to Be Scale-Aware
August 30, 2012 Conservation is concerned with the preservation of biological diversity at all levels, from genes to species, communities and ecosystems. Yet conserving this biological richness is made ... > full story -
Ecological Monitoring on Bird Populations in Europe Re-Evaluated
August 30, 2012 A new article has examined Europe's long experience in monitoring the populations of birds. Scientists calculated that nearly 28,000 persons have been involved in bird monitoring during last few ... > full story -
Biodiversity Conservation Depends on Scale: Lessons from the Science–policy Dialogue
August 30, 2012 A new article examines the mismatches between the scales at which ecological processes take place and the levels at which policy decisions and management interventions are made. Various societal ... > full story -
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Hope of Greater Global Food Output, Less Environmental Impact of Agriculture
August 29, 2012 Can we have enough to eat and a healthy environment, too? Yes -- if we're smart about it, suggests a new ... > full story -
Natural Regeneration Building Urban Forests, Altering Species Composition
August 22, 2012 Scientists have shown that on average, one in three trees in sampled cities were planted while two-thirds resulted from natural ... > full story -
Triage for Plants: Scientists Develop and Test Rapid Species Conservation Assessment Technique
August 16, 2012 Faced with a host of environmental threats, many of the world's plant species are believed to be at risk of extinction. But which species? To answer that question, scientists have developed a ... > full story
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