http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. What harm can a simple road do in a pristine place such as Ecuador's Yasuni National Park, home to peccaries, tapirs, monkeys and myriad other wildlife species? A great deal, it turns out. Specifically, it can turn subsistence communities into commercial hunting camps that empty rainforests of their wildlife, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society and the IDEAS-Universidad San Francisco de Quito in Ecuador have found. http://www.physorg.com/news171814103.html Biology Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:20:02 EST news171814103 (AP) -- The rare Arakan forest turtle, once though to be extinct, has been rediscovered in a remote forest in Myanmar, boosting chances of saving the reptile after hunting almost destroyed its population, researchers said Monday. http://www.physorg.com/news171537403.html Biology Mon, 07 Sep 2009 10:17:24 EST news171537403 The results of a Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) study that rapidly measures stream habitat have been adopted by a government agency working with private landowners to restore waterways throughout the U.S. http://www.physorg.com/news169826614.html Biology Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:20:01 EST news169826614 (PhysOrg.com) -- An odd songbird with a bald head living in a rugged region in Laos has been discovered by scientists from the Wildlife Conservation Society and University of Melbourne, as part of a project funded and managed by the mining company MMG (Minerals and Metals Group) that operates the Sepon copper and gold project in the region. http://www.physorg.com/news168152932.html Biology Thu, 30 Jul 2009 06:40:02 EST news168152932 The Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that critically endangered alligators in China have a new chance for survival. The WCS's Bronx Zoo, in partnership with two other North American parks and the Department of Wildlife Conservation and Management of the State Forestry Administration of China, has successfully reintroduced alligators into the wild that are now multiplying on their own. http://www.physorg.com/news166793345.html Biology Tue, 14 Jul 2009 12:29:37 EST news166793345 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today the discovery of a new monkey in a remote region of the Amazon in Brazil. http://www.physorg.com/news166191394.html Biology Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:18:11 EST news166191394 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced today that the Afghanistan's National Environment Protection Agency (NEPA), in an effort to safeguard its natural heritage, has released the country's first-ever list of protected species now banned from hunting or harvest. http://www.physorg.com/news163330977.html Biology Thu, 04 Jun 2009 10:48:12 EST news163330977 (AP) -- A species of birds able to fly immediately after hatching from eggs buried beneath the tropical sand has just been given its own private beach in eastern Indonesia, a conservation group said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news161583289.html Biology Fri, 15 May 2009 05:15:44 EST news161583289 (AP) -- A California condor captured because it appeared sickly was found to not only be suffering from lead poisoning but also had been shot, animal experts said Friday. http://www.physorg.com/news156268968.html Biology Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:03:33 EST news156268968 New software developed with help from the Wildlife Conservation Society will allow tiger researchers to rapidly identify individual animals by creating a three-dimensional model using photos taken by remote cameras. The software, described in an issue of the journal Biology Letters, may also help identify the origin of tigers from confiscated skins. http://www.physorg.com/news156085481.html Biology Thu, 12 Mar 2009 14:05:45 EST news156085481 The Wildlife Conservation Society`s India Program (WCS - India) has released a unique training video on YouTube that showcases the latest scientific methods for estimating the numbers of wild tigers and their prey. http://www.physorg.com/news155831310.html Biology Mon, 09 Mar 2009 15:29:18 EST news155831310 A Wildlife Conservation Society-supported survey of the Sahara has captured the first camera-trap photographs of the critically endangered Saharan cheetah in Algeria. The survey was conducted by researchers from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL), the Office du Parc National de l'Ahaggar (OPNA), and the Université de Béjaďa, with support from WCS and Panthera. http://www.physorg.com/news154695999.html Biology Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:07:26 EST news154695999 The economy isn't just squeezing the middle class on land, it's also affecting fish. http://www.physorg.com/news153494857.html Space & Earth Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:28:06 EST news153494857 The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) released photos today from the first large-scale census of jaguars in the Amazon region of Ecuador -one of the most biologically rich regions on the planet. http://www.physorg.com/news152294109.html Biology Tue, 27 Jan 2009 15:55:31 EST news152294109 New data released today by the Wildlife Conservation Society and Malaysia's Department of Wildlife and National Parks (DWNP) reveals that a population of endangered Asian elephants living in a Malaysian park may be the largest in Southeast Asia. http://www.physorg.com/news151160631.html Biology Wed, 14 Jan 2009 13:03:51 EST news151160631 In Chad, the ivory poachers have upgraded to automatic weapons. Having bolstered the population at this "last stand for elephants" in central Africa, the Wildlife Conservation Society estimated recently that the numbers had dropped again, from 3,500 to 1,000. http://www.physorg.com/news150295738.html Biology Sun, 04 Jan 2009 12:48:58 EST news150295738 The Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society announced today that its efforts to protect a wildlife-rich coastal region in South America have paid off in the form of a new coastal marine park recently signed into law by the Government of Argentina. http://www.physorg.com/news149923404.html Biology Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:23:24 EST news149923404 A team of scientists from the New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has reported a rapid recovery of coral reefs in areas of Indonesia, following the tsunami that devastated coastal regions throughout the Indian Ocean four years ago today. http://www.physorg.com/news149768973.html Space & Earth Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:29:33 EST news149768973 Americans are woefully out of touch with the fact that the American bison, or buffalo, is in trouble as a wild, iconic species, but they do love them as an important symbol of their country -and as an entrée on the dinner table. http://www.physorg.com/news146232375.html Biology Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:06:15 EST news146232375 The songbird has a friend in the beaver. According to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the busy beaver's signature dams provide critical habitat for a variety of migratory songbirds, particularly in the semi-arid interior of the West. http://www.physorg.com/news142687424.html Biology Wed, 08 Oct 2008 12:23:44 EST news142687424 Black bears that live around urban areas weigh more, get pregnant at a younger age, and are more likely to die violent deaths, according to a study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). http://www.physorg.com/news141996872.html Biology Tue, 30 Sep 2008 12:34:32 EST news141996872 Using remote camera traps to lift the veil on Myanmar's dense northern wild lands, researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have painstakingly gathered a bank of valuable data on the country's populations of tigers and other smaller, lesser known carnivores (see photo attachments). These findings will help in the formulation of conservation strategies for the country's wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news140178620.html Biology Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:30:20 EST news140178620 A Wildlife Conservation Society report reveals surprisingly large populations of two globally threatened primates in a protected area in Cambodia. http://www.physorg.com/news139143040.html Biology Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:50:40 EST news139143040 A recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) suggests that old female elephants -and perhaps their memories of distant, life-sustaining sources of food and water -may be the key to survival during the worst of times. http://www.physorg.com/news137677103.html Biology Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:38:23 EST news137677103 Just three years after it was discovered, a new species of monkey is threatened with extinction according to the Wildlife Conservation Society, which recently published the first-ever census of the endangered primate. Known as the "kipunji," the large, forest-dwelling primate hovers at 1,117 individuals, according to a study released in the July issue of the journal Oryx. http://www.physorg.com/news136467088.html Biology Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:31:28 EST news136467088