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Time and money make a difference in endangered species recovery

... protected, and the amount of money spent on their conservation are key variables in explaining trends. Overall, about half of species protected are no longer declining and only 35 % of species protected for 13 years or more were still declining. Status trends are partly explained by taxonomy and funding. Specie...

Genetics links whale to two different ocean basins

... between ocean basins will help inform a number of conservation activities relating to humpback whales, including how these populations are defined, studied and managed. Humpback whales were hunted commercially until the International Whaling Commission protected the species globally in 1966. "These findings wil...

Research suggests fitness of Florida panthers improved by limited breeding with Texas animals

..., "The Balance of Nature? Ecological issues in the conservation of species and communities." He acknowledged in his interview and in the new paper that "I was wrong." The paper's other authors are Luke Dollar, a doctoral student in Pimm's research group, and Oron "Sonny" Bass, Jr., a biologist who has studied pa...

Virulizin granted orphan drug status in Europe

...ld recover if changes to fishing methods and other conservation efforts are made includes harbor porpoises in the ... extinction," said Karen Baragona of WWF's species conservation program. "We developed this ranking to help governments and aid agencies target their investments fo...

Novel targets found for the development of drugs to complement, or replace, statins

...ld recover if changes to fishing methods and other conservation efforts are made includes harbor porpoises in the ... extinction," said Karen Baragona of WWF's species conservation program. "We developed this ranking to help governments and aid agencies target their investments fo...

Canada's first embryonic stem cell lines

...ld recover if changes to fishing methods and other conservation efforts are made includes harbor porpoises in the ... extinction," said Karen Baragona of WWF's species conservation program. "We developed this ranking to help governments and aid agencies target their investments fo...

Leading scientists rank endangered dolphins, porpoises most in need of immediate action

...ld recover if changes to fishing methods and other conservation efforts are made includes harbor porpoises in the ... extinction," said Karen Baragona of WWF's species conservation program. "We developed this ranking to help governments and aid agencies target their investments fo...

Team of international scientists departs today to discover the unknown in China's Himalayan region

...oorly known but potentially important biodiversity conservation sites. Taking part in this RAP are Polish scientis...ining the expedition is Anne Savage, Ph.D., Disney conservation biologist and Russ Mittermeier, Ph.D., president of Conservation International, both experts on prim...

Mayan stingless bee keeping: Going, going, gone?

...iginally submitted their manuscript to a number of conservation journals who, in Roubik's words: "told us that the...em anymore." The article, presenting a very cogent conservation strategy for saving the Mayan 'royal lady', will appear in the June, 2005, "Bee World," published by...

President Bush's cut to AIDS prevention in Africa would be devastating

...species," Gillespie said. "We know that there is a conservation issue. It's been difficult to understand what is taking place. No one had really looked at how parasites and disease might be affecting this relationship. We were surprised to find dramatic patterns across the board, where the species of primates doi...

Affymetrix and ParAllele Launch Industry's Most Comprehensive Product Line for Targeted Genotyping

...species," Gillespie said. "We know that there is a conservation issue. It's been difficult to understand what is taking place. No one had really looked at how parasites and disease might be affecting this relationship. We were surprised to find dramatic patterns across the board, where the species of primates doi...

Logging changed ecological balance for monkeys, damaged health

...species," Gillespie said. "We know that there is a conservation issue. It's been difficult to understand what is taking place. No one had really looked at how parasites and disease might be affecting this relationship. We were surprised to find dramatic patterns across the board, where the species of primates doi...

Expanding forests darken the outlook for butterflies, study shows

...oland believes the results of his study can inform conservation biologists in Europe to help them save their butterflies. As for protecting the butterflies in the Canadian Rockies, Roland would like to see more prescribed burning of forests to increase the number and size of alpine meadows. However, unlike the p...

Reversal of role for a viral protein associated with the development of lymphoma

...thesis experimentally. "The striking evolutionary conservation of ratchetting points suggests that recursive splicing provides specific advantages for large introns," Lopez said. "One possibility is that recursive splicing prevents the generation of long RNA transcripts that could form structures that interfere ...

Carnegie Mellon University research reveals how cells process large genes

...thesis experimentally. "The striking evolutionary conservation of ratchetting points suggests that recursive splicing provides specific advantages for large introns," Lopez said. "One possibility is that recursive splicing prevents the generation of long RNA transcripts that could form structures that interfere ...

Siberian tigers hang tough

...presents a milestone in cooperative, international conservation efforts, with full political support from both reg...ncial and technical support from the international conservation community." The project was funded not only by Russia's Ministry of Natural Resources, but by a host...

Plankton can run, but can't hide from basking sharks

...r, the results have important implications for the conservation of shark species. Dr David Sims of the Marine Biological Association and colleagues examined diving behaviour of four basking sharks (Cetorhinus maximus) - two in the shallow sea off Plymouth and two in the deep water off the shelf-edge southwest of...

Size matters: Preventing large mammal extinction

...e understand the mechanisms, we are able to tailor conservation programmes dependant on size, to ensure they're mo...advantage than we realised, which implies that the conservation of large mammals should assume a particular urgency," said Dr Marcel Cardillo of Imperial College Lo...

Assessing the Amazon River's sensitivity to deforestation

...cies and help plan future settlement, land use and conservation priorities." "This third phase is particularly exciting because we are now combining what we have learned about the physical River with human activities on the land surface, such as deforestation and agriculture," says Coe. This novel linkage of soc...

Poaching, logging, and outbreaks of Ebola threaten central African gorillas and chimpanzees

...us amount of work and dedication from a variety of conservation groups, government agencies and donors, but we still have a chance to save these animals." The Brazzaville meeting was organized by the Centre International de Recherches M�dicales de Franceville (CIRMF), Conservation International (CI), the W...

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