Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
...longa National Park, the largest forested national park in Africa and a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the ...ional Park, with three times the area of any other park surveyed, have so few elephants? Most likely because the park is divided into two sections, and is c...Amur leopard still on the brink of extinction, scientists say
.... And still a unified protected area with national park status has not been established, which is the most important thing for the leopards' survival." At least four leopard litters were encountered during the census. This is a good sign because it means that the population is not completely depressed a...Uganda's mountain gorillas increase in number
...las are starting to use the northern sector of the park for the first time in living memory. Bwindi is also home to a thriving gorilla ecotourism program, which generates much needed foreign revenue for Uganda annually by bringing paying travelers into the company of mountain gorillas. Four of the 30 fa...Update on census of wrld's most endangered cat -- female Amur leopard found dead
...te need for a unified protected area with national park status if the leopard is to survive in the wild. In February and March, World Wildlife Fund, along with the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Pacific Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Science, conducted a routine snow-track censu...Study confirms the risk of exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke outdoors
... how smoking affects air quality at sidewalk cafs, park benches and other outdoor locations. Writing in the May issue of the Journal of the Air and Waste Management Association (JAWMA), the Stanford team concluded that a non-smoker sitting a few feet downwind from a smoldering cigarette is likely to be ex...Dinosaur hearing, listening to muscle noise, quieter cubicles
...y, substantial restoration of natural quiet to the park from aircraft noise. Dickson Hingson of the Sierra Club's National Parks and Monument Committee ( dhingson@infowest.com ) will discuss the current status of these efforts, as a deadline of April 22, 2008 approaches for implementing the act. Leslie B...Philandering female felines forgo fidelity
... we now know many of the fathers exist outside the park and study area. This is a finding which gives us a critical insight into cheetah ecology and one that merits inclusion into future conservation efforts for the species. The nine-year study, which was conducted in the Serengeti National Park of Tanz...Early fire risk for mountains near Los Angeles
...earchers call it the worlds largest urban national park and one of the major areas of wildland-urban interface and intermix in Southern California, located near Malibu, Calabasas, Thousand Oaks, Westlake Village, Newbury Park, Agoura Hills and parts of Los Angeles: Encino, Brentwood, Laurel Canyon and Woo...Satellite survey links tropical park fires with poverty and corruption
...nding of the links between corruption, poverty and park management will help conservationists and policy m...llite data on fire frequency provides a measure of park effectiveness across countries, Wright said. It is strikingly clear from our study that poverty and ...Longest study finds reef fish need longer break
...sity peaked and stabilized 10 years after a marine park was closed to fishing. The recovery rates of different families and species, however, occurred at different rates, partly as a result of competition for resources among different species. For instance, most parrotfish took some 10-20 years to recover...Innovative research technique reveals another natural wonder in Yellowstone Park
...dlife, mountains, geysers and hot springs. But the park is also a scientific reservoir that harbors what may be the world's largest diversity of thermophilic (heat-loving) microorganisms. Discovered in microbial mats in three of Yellowstone's hot springs, Cab. thermophilum belongs to a new genus and spe...Surprising new species of light-harvesting bacterium discovered in Yellowstone
...he chance to work with him and his students in the park and to visit Montana frequently. Our collaboration is a great example of how science really becomes exciting when scientists from different disciplines interact."......ive there, it would be relatively easy to create a park while supporting the livelihoods of people who live in the landscape.......e government of Argentina will create a new marine park along its isolated and windswept Patagonia coast t...n Societys Argentina Program. The creation of this park comes in the nick of time for many species that are threatened by the regions fisheries and energy i...