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New bird discovered on unexplored Columbian mountain

...the Colombian government and a large forest nature reserve was recently established in the region by Fundación ProAves, Colombia's bird conservation NGO. "The description of a new bird is a rare event in modern times," said Blanca Huertas. "However, this is just the first of several new species that we w...

Recently discovered species gain protection

...es," said George Fenwick, the ABC president. The reserve is also critically important for globally threaten...he harlequin toads. In addition to the piha, the reserve also contains populations of many other rare and restricted birds, including the black tinamou (know...

Producing medicines in plant seeds

...ng the produced protein's effectiveness, so that a reserve can always be kept on hand. This means that the proteins can be isolated from the seeds at the moment that they are actually needed. With production in leaves, for example - or with conventional production methods - such lengthy storage is not possib...

Large size crucial for Amazon forest reserves

...assical scientific hypotheses about the effects of reserve size and isolation on the local extinction and colonization of species. The species-specific estimates of effects of area and isolation on extinction and colonization processes permit prediction of effects of future fragmentation on bird communities ...

Canadian study shows bilingualism has protective effect in delaying onset of dementia by four years

...gnitive reserve" in later years of life. Cognitive reserve refers to enhanced neural plasticity, compensatory use of alternative brain regions, and enriched brain vasculature, all of which are thought to provide a general protective function against the onset of dementia symptoms. Now scientists with the...

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