Birds and bats sow tropical seeds
...ort only a limited variety of animal species. Poor lands are more likely to be abandoned. Better land parcels get replanted. But if nature had her way, more than 90 percent of replanted species would be dispersed by birds, bats and primates. That's less and less the case today in tropical areas worldwide, ...NASA technology monitors wildlife habitats from the air
...cially valuable in ensuring that forests and other lands continue to be diverse, healthy, and productive, while still meeting the needs of society and the environment. The study, funded by the NASA/University of Maryland Vegetation Canopy LiDAR (VCL) mission and a NASA Interdisciplinary Science (IDS) Progr...El Carmen the first wilderness designation in Latin America
...d conservation efforts by legally protecting these lands and offering economic incentives to landowners suc...her to landowners who have already certified their lands through CONANP or to those who prefer to certify their land as wilderness through the private sector...New funding for Wild Planet project announced at 8th World Wilderness Congress
...ct focus in Sub-Saharan Africa. WILD promotes wild lands conservation and species protection throughout the region and facilitates and implements a range of creative and pragmatic projects that integrate conservation objectives with the needs of local peoples....Cattle grazing may help rather than hurt endangered species
... endangered species. Removing cattle from grazing lands in the Central Valley of California could, inadvertently, degrade the vernal pool habitat of fairy shrimp and tiger salamanders. Cattle grazing influences the rates of evaporation which work together with climate to determine the depth and duration ...Good gnus: Ruminating on conservation in Africa 'til the cows come home
...tional parks and other protected areas and grazing lands worldwide. Whether we are talking about the ongoing tuberculosis crisis impacting South Africa's Kruger National Park, or Yellowstone National Park's brucellosis saga costing U.S. authorities millions of dollars to manage, these issues merit more pro...Yale environment school professor receives research award
...ing that inorganic carbon export from agricultural lands may offset some of the proposed carbon sequestration due to reforestation....Satellite study doubles forest disturbance estimates in Brazilimpacts widespread
...protected national reserves, parks, and indigenous lands were found to have been logged via illegal activities. As a result of the harvest, up to 80 million metric tons of carbon are released each year. "We expected to see large areas of logging, but the extent to which logging penetrates deep into the fro...The secret love life of plants
...of flowering plants are housed in a carpel. Pollen lands on the flower's stigma and forms a pollen tube. It then uses each one of its two sperm cells to fertilise the egg cell, from which the embryo hatches, and the central cell, where the endosperm grows. This double fertilisation is what is special to al...Satellites show Amazon parks, indigenous reserves stop forest clearing
...d, "Protecting indigenous and traditional peoples' lands and natural areas in the Amazon works to stop defo... while fires were 4 to 9 times higher. Indigenous lands clearly stopped clearing in high-deforestation frontier regions: 33 of 38 indigenous territories wi...Disturbing former farmlands can rouse old pesticides, says Dartmouth research
...d, our work suggests that the development of these lands can inadvertently mobilize these metals toward bod...ions are taken to control erosion when old orchard lands are disturbed in order to reduce the potential for contamination of nearby surface waters."...Crossing the Valley of Death: Moving science into practice and policy
...fice of Arid Lands Studies and a professor of arid lands resource sciences. "There's no mechanism that reli...ting in St. Louis. Marsh is a UA professor of arid lands resource sciences and of geography and regional development and the director of UA's Arizona Remote ...Local involvement in national lands management: Can it work nationwide?
...a say in how the government manages nearby federal lands makes sense to both local residents and federal officials. But the devil is in the details of how this local input is gathered. Known as adaptive environmental management, the concept is popular in Europe, but has only been officially attempted in on...Can science-based resource management work?
...en discussed by land managers and touted by public lands scholars for at least 20 years, the concept has be...gement activities. One of the challenges of public lands management is managing the land for many uses. Like many other federal lands, the Valles Caldera Nat...A rare alliance forged to protect Wisconsin waters
...ogen and the sediments that seep from agricultural lands into state waters. At the heart of the discussion has been the statewide conservation potential of "riparian buffers," or strips of vegetated land that lie adjacent to water. Scientists have known for years that among other ecological benefits, buffe...ESA calls for federal leadership to control invasive species
...armful, non-native species are spreading into U.S. lands and waters at an accelerating pace. Their damage to economic activity, ecosystems, and human welfare is accumulating. Without an improved national strategy based on science, these invasive species will cause increasing damage to the nation's natura...To avoid doing more harm than good, land trusts must consider market forces when acquiring property
...levates land prices and displaces development onto lands where conservation is needed. "Land trusts have b...h conservation value," Daily explains. "Protecting lands that lack biodiversity is not only a waste of money but undermines future opportunities by increasin...Report finds cruise industry is protecting the precious places it visits
...po Xcaret, a private company, purchased and leased lands from the Mexican government to develop natural and cultural theme parks along the Caribbean coast of Mexico. Several cruise lines have installed scientific laboratories on its ships to help scientists conduct research on vital marine and climate iss...Scientists in dogged pursuit of snow research embark on Arctic trek
...ng of how snow metamorphoses, or changes, after it lands on Earth. Snow crystals scatter passive microwave radiation emanating from the ground. Researchers want to know better what type of crystals are more likely to be found in a particular region at a particular time of year. The more information they ha...Yale's Strobel named 'million-dollar professor' for science teaching innovation
...y perspectives, and first-hand experience of other lands and cultures." A mentor for the project is Strobel's father, Gary Strobel at Montana State University, who discovered the bioactive compound taxol in a fungus that grows on yew trees. He and his colleagues found that the fungus had evolved the abilit...