News tagged with conservation measure
Obama signs wide-ranging conservation law
Mar 30, 2009 |
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President Barack Obama signed legislation on Monday expanding and protecting US public parks and wilderness areas from oil and gas development, billed as the largest US conservation measure in more than 15 ...
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Tracking tigers in 3-D
Mar 12, 2009 |
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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 ...
Want to Count Wild Tigers? Go to YouTube
Mar 09, 2009 |
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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.
Spotted owls facing extinction in Canada
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May 18, 2007 |
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Officials in the Canadian province of British Columbia have ordered all regional spotted owls to be collected to prevent the birds from going extinct.
Using Lasers to Map Bird Habitat
Sep 29, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Lasers are providing scientists with new tools for mapping, protecting, and restoring bird habitat along rivers. In a paper published in the October issue of Ecological Applications, scientists from PRBO C ...
Madagascar's tortoises are crawling toward extinction, groups say
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Feb 07, 2008 |
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Madagascar’s turtles and tortoises, which rank among the most endangered reptiles on earth, will continue to crawl steadily toward extinction unless major conservation measure are enacted, according to a recent ...
Photos reveal Myanmar's large and small predators
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Sep 09, 2008 |
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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 ...
Our penchant for rarity could threaten conservation efforts
Apr 22, 2009 |
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Rare plant and animal species are like rare stamps or coins: they are perceived to be inherently more valuable to people, whatever they look like. Researchers Elena Angulo and Franck Courchamp, from Université de Paris-Sud, ...
Islands top a global list of places to protect
May 11, 2009 |
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Rare and unique ecological communities will be lost if oceanic islands aren't adequately considered in a global conservation plan, a new study has found. Although islands tend to harbor fewer species than continental lands ...
Could stressed out sharks save more fish? (w/ Video)
Oct 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Marine biology graduate student Austin Gallagher has studied the dwindling shark population around the world—from the waters of the South Pacific to those off Southern California.
Scientists Bring 2000 year old painted warrior to virtual live
Jan 12, 2009 |
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A 2000-year-old painted statue is being restored to her original glory by scientists from WMG at the University of Warwick, the University of Southampton, and the Herculaneum Conservation Project.
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