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Renewed dolphin slaughter prompts new campaign

... dolphin drive hunts also raise concerns about the conservation status of several species of cetacean taken in the...ism from relevant management organizations on both conservation and welfare grounds, including the International Whaling Commission (IWC), the treaty organization t...

Ocean temperature predicts spread of marine species

... varies with ocean temperature ?a key component in conservation and management of fish, shellfish and other marine species ?according to a new study from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Most marine life, including commercially important species, reproduces via larvae that drift far along ocean c...

Second opinion yields treatment changes for half of patients

...ivering chemotherapy before surgery to make breast conservation possible or sentinel lymph node biopsy, a new technique to determine whether cancer has spread beyond the breast. Thirty-two percent of patients had their surgery recommendations changed based on a multidisciplinary approach to surgical management ...

Save the whales? Sure, but how many?

... proposes a simpler, four-tiered system to measure conservation success. The paper cataloged 18 different approac...once demographic sustainability has been achieved, conservation efforts should aim next for 'ecological functionality,' which means a species will serve its role in...

Rhesus monkeys in Nepal may provide new alternative for HIV/AIDS research

... of rhesus macaques in research while ensuring the conservation of Nepal's naturally occurring rhesus populations,...malaria. "In addition, the program has a strong conservation thrust. Establishing this center will allow more resources to be dedicated to primate conservation ...

Researchers find that bumblebees' flower choice matters

...e information to increase crop yields and to boost conservation of native plant communities. Best bee practices Because there are many bee behaviors, the task isn't simple, but with tedious scrutiny it is documentable. "Bumblebees definitely have distinct foraging patterns, both among species and even ind...

African wetland managers armed with new technology

...s of individual wetlands to aid national and local conservation efforts. Because the success of wetland conservation ultimately comes down to individual wetland managers, the GlobWetland products and services are user...

NAU researchers chirping over discovery of new cricket genus

...ery could be highly relevant to the management and conservation of cave resources on the monument," Wynne said. Crickets provide a valuable ecological service to the environment. Some species are often the primary decomposers in cave ecosystems. The researchers also found a new cricket species (genus Ceuthoph...

Race to halt global amphibian crisis boosted by rediscovery of endangered Colombian frogs

...Alliance for Zero Extinction ?a 62-member group of conservation organizations battling global extinctions. In Marc... before our very eyes, so this is a real boost for conservation efforts." The Alliance for Zero Extinction ( www.zeroextinction.org ) issued a report in December ...

All the eggs in one basket

Current conservation assessments of endangered Caribbean sea turtles ar...nachan, Jeremy Jackson and Marah Newman agree that conservation efforts since the 1970's have dramatically helped increase green and hawksbill turtle populations th...

Major initiative proposed to address amphibian crisis

...viduals, government agencies, foundations, and the conservation community will be sought, the researchers said in their report. Amphibians have been around for more than 300 million years, thriving before the dinosaurs and living long after they and many other species had disappeared. Their dramatic decline an...

Methane-belching bugs inspire a new theory of the origin of life on Earth

...us theories by proposing a central role for energy conservation during early evolution, based on a simple three-step biochemical mechanism. Their results also provide insights into the evolution of the microbial production of methane, the primary component of natural gas. A detailed understanding of methane bio...

Gorilla susceptibility to Ebola virus: the cost of sociality

...tion disappeared in approximately one year. From a conservation point of view, this finding is worrying because all adult female and young gorillas--on whom post-epidemic population recovery relies--live in groups. These findings provide new insights into what is still a poorly understood disease and could shed...

WWF captures first-ever photo of wild rhino on Borneo

...s an encouraging sign for the future of rhinoceros conservation work in Sabah," said Mahedi Andau, Director of the...k in that area. Supporters of WWF-Malaysia's rhino conservation work include Honda Malaysia and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Sabah and the forests of the "Heart...

Butterfly farming to help save rain forest

...Centre for Rain Forest Conservation in Guyana. The conservation reserve around that centre and the surrounding North Rupununi District is a rich source of exotic butterflies that are sought after by many western butterfly farms and other institutions that exhibit collections of live butterflies. Each individual b...

Salk and Stanford teams join forces to reveal two paths of neurodegeneration

...y," he explains. Luo and O'Leary believe that the conservation of the differences in axon degeneration between developmental pruning and injury from flies to mammals points to general mechanisms which are most likely also at work in the human nervous system. Both investigators believe that these and related stud...

What's nature worth? New computer models tell all

...es the project will help policymakers realize that conservation is not a luxury; it must be a key economic goal. I...will allow us to move beyond the counterproductive conservation vs. development debate to thinking about conservation as a form of development," he writes. ...

Agriculture and tropical conservation: rethinking old ideas

It's a long-held view in conservation circles that rural peasant activities are at odds with efforts to preserve biodiversity in the tropics. In fact, the opposite is often true, argue University of Michigan researchers John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto. Combining case studies with ...

Colombian frog believed extinct found alive

...red among the most diverse on Earth and key in the conservation efforts to protect amphibian species worldwide. So far, 42 of the 113 species of Atelopus found in the Tropical Andes Hotspot that includes parts of Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela have experienced population declines of up to 50 percent. Frog...

UN review shows need to halt destructive fishing practice

...ch as a moratorium on bottom trawling until formal conservation and management systems can be set up. Nations h...e renowned deep sea explorer who heads CI's marine conservation division, likens bottom trawling to trying to capture a songbird with a bulldozer. Costa Rica, whi...

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