Planned Burning In Forests A Boon To Several Species Of Birds In Illinois
...flycatchers. The findings may be welcome news for conservationists wanting to restoreoak savannas forests with open canopies that allow light to shinethrough easily. Years of fire suppression have eliminated natural disturbancessuch as wildfires. As a result, forest canopies have closed, altering theflow of ......Linder Theater In response to the 1996 proposal by conservationists to restore the easterntimber wolf to New York's Adirondack State Park, the Center for Biodiversity andConservation at the American Museum of Natural History and the Hastings Center,a research and education institute for bioethics, will host a confere...In Logged Forests, Hunting of Wildlife Becomes Deadly 'Second Harvest'
...al, but collaboration between logging companiesand conservationists offers a way forward," Robinson said....Biologist calls 30% of African primates 'living dead'
...re the extinction debts are the greatest will help conservationists decidewhere to restore habitat and establish corridors between fragments.......he problem has led to considerable tension between conservationists and cattlemen and the shooting by farmers of bison that graze near domesticated herds, even though thre is little evidence of cattle becoming infected, according to Daszak. The translocation of wildlife species - the second method of spreading e...Ecosystem health depends on complex relationship between organisms
...hem, Naeem said, is an important consideration for conservationists dealing with an extinction rate that some researchers believe could cost the world half its species by 2050. Some scientists, he noted, argue that humans alone affect species extinction in a way similar to an asteroid impact such as the one 65 millio...South Dakota windbreaks need renovation
...breaks needed renovation and District foresters or conservationists can assist landowners considering renovation of existing shelterbelts." Not only are the forests that were planted to prevent wind damage aging, but the riparian forests, next to the waters edge, are also maturing. Early in the 1800's there were ex...New research centre to continue 200-year-old traditions
...ia since the turn of the century, when enlightened conservationists proposed that its uncleared western end should be set aside as a refuge for species that might become extinct on the mainland. They secured Flinders Chase as a reserve, and introduced a wide range of fauna, including Koalas, Platypus and Cape Barren...Stanford study supports novel rainforest protection plan
...t in favor of a logging company, but pressure from conservationists and diplomats helped persuade the government to reject the loggers' proposals. "Without this pressure," write the authors, "the Masoala Peninsula, one of Madagascar's most import reservoirs of biodiversity, would perhaps have become a forestry conc...Latest farm product: Meadowbirds
...roach has the added benefit of putting farmers and conservationists on the same side. "Most of the farmers participati... success are significant in light of the fact that conservationists estimate that to maintain populations, the minimum hatching success rate is 62% for lapwings and 63%...Once thought extinct, Siamese crocodile is photographed in Siam
NEW YORK -- A team of conservationists led by the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) have re-discovered the Siamese crocodile in Thailand (formally known as Siam), capturing the animal on film while surveying for tigers.The crocodile, estimated at seven feet, was photograp...Evolution at a snail's pace: It's faster than you think
...or real estate development," Hellberg said. "Many conservationists believe that as long as a species can be relocated, it can be saved. But this study shows that the moved species may not continue on unchanged. The fact that it was moved can cause it to change and it won't be the same after all." Even more i...LSU Professor Emeritus wins 2001 National Wetlands Award
...ight wetlands educators, activists, scientists and conservationists selected for the award. Gosselink will receive the award in Washington, D.C., on June 28 at a ceremony on Capitol Hill that is sponsored by Sens. John Breaux, Bob Graham and Bob Smith, and Reps. Sherwood Boehler and James Oberstar. "I congratulat......of the 19th centurys most accomplished scientists, conservationists and artists, among them nature writer John Burroughs, naturalist and mountaineer John Muir and photographer Edward Curtis. The exhaustive documentation they produced shaped indelibly our image of Alaskas natural resources and of North Americas earli...Trouble in paradise? 'Natural' pest control requires careful planning, Science authors conclude
...Science . Some agricultural experts, foresters and conservationists favor biocontrol over chemical solutions such as insecticides and pesticides to eradicate or maintain weeds, bugs, and sometimes disease. Yet, if not tested properly beforehand, in a community-wide context, introduced species can do more harm than th......shington, D.C.) - An international team of leading conservationists calculate that protecting enough biological diversity to sustain a healthy planet will cost some $30 billion, and maintain that the money and measures to do so are attainable. Their findings appear in, "Can We Defy Natures End?," an article published...Earth's 'last edens' receive $20 million boost
...rvation Society can effect successful action. Its conservationists have spent decades establishing the science and trust necessary to make this new approach work. The Wilson grant will also be used to help fund a variety of other WCS conservation efforts. The organization supports some 350 projects in more tha...World's smallest lizard discovered in Caribbean
...rsity. "The Caribbean is now widely recognized by conservationists and biologists as an ecological hot spot because it clearly is an area that has an unusually high percentage of endangered species that occur nowhere else in the world," Hedges says. "Most land species on Earth have evolved to live in forested regio...New report documents dramatic decline in beluga sturgeon in the Caspian Sea
...commitment from governments, industry, scientists, conservationists and consumers around the world for many years to come. The alternative may be the loss of a magnificent species that has existed since the time of dinosaurs....Chemical evidence proves the old adage, Birds of a feather flock together
...also have suffered widespread deforestation, which conservationists suspect is partly responsible for declining bird populations in Appalachia and other parts of North America. To develop successful conservation strategies, you need to know where the birds go in winter, he added. Our study is the first to link sout...