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In 2014, Gomez, a wildlife management researcher, ran afoul of US copyright law in what can only be described as the most incidental of ways.

(Natural News) On the lookout for killer whales in the famous Bremer Canyon area of Western Australia, marine wildlife researcher Rebecca Wellard stumbled across an appalling sight: A trio of plastic drums used for hydrochloric acid storage, bobbing in the bio-diverse waters of the marine reserve, reported The West Australian.

A group of researchers from Michigan State University (MSU) and China are building the case that allowing livestock to graze and forage amidst protected wildlife disrupts wildlife already struggling for survival — and that different wildlife react to livestock invasions in different ways.

From this tableau that evolves over 1,588 photos, researchers deduct that it's not just that the wildlife may be affected by their less rare and more domesticated forest mates, but that they react differently, and thus need different types of policies.

Researchers studied the large - scale impact of wildlife extinctions induced by over-hunting on carbon storage right across the Amazon.

In addition to his wildlife observations, Bicknell has added 10,000 records covering 20 years of wildlife census data from other researchers into an algorithm that highlights biodiversity hot spots.

«With the number of dogs increasing and more contact between wildlife and dogs there is a risk of repetition,» says Sarah Cleaveland, a veterinary researcher at the Institute of Zoology in London.

In one compelling example, wildlife researcher Stacia Backensto, a graduate student at the University of Alaska at Fairbanks, was stymied by bird cognition when she began studying how ravens used ambient heat from buildings to adapt to life on the dark, frigid oil fields of the Arctic coast.

No one know how many birds succumb each year to the wildlife trade since much of the trafficking is illegal, but within Southeast Asia alone, it is likely «in the order of tens of millions,» says Kelly Edmunds, a researcher at the University of East Anglia in England who investigates the emerging infectious diseases amongst bird sellers in Asia and was not involved in the study.

Lemm, of the San Diego Zoo's Institute for Conservation Research, remarks that the base «is an easy place for U.S. researchers to work on Cuban wildlife.

Over the past few decades, wildlife researchers and environmental regulators in the United States have become increasingly alarmed by the intentional misuse of methomyl to kill «nuisance» wildlife including skunks and raccoons.

Researchers with the group pioneered methods of breeding peregrines in captivity and releasing them into the wild; such techniques have since been adopted widely by biologists trying to bring other wildlife species back from the brink of extinction.

A team including researchers from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research has developed a novel methodology that, for the first time, combines 3 - D and advanced range estimator technologies to provide highly detailed data on the range and movements of terrestrial, aquatic, and avian wildlife species.

Researchers say the leading cause of these extinctions is invasive rodents — rats and mice that stowed away on ships, then quickly populated islands where they have no natural predators and often find a buffet of things like eggs and baby wildlife.

Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, co-author of the comment and researcher at ZSL, said: «With global wildlife populations halved in just 40 years, there is a real urgency to identify variables that both capture key aspects of biodiversity change and can be monitored consistently and globally.

The researcher notes «in the light of the recent killings of elephants in the state for ivory trade and during conflicts, Sabahans must realise that it is their natural patrimony that is targeted, they need to stand for their wildlife and condemn those who kill those magnificent creatures.

Dávalos» team is now working to bring together a larger, interdisciplinary team of colleagues to create an intensive conservation management plan incorporating the expertise of conservation researchers, biologist, ecologists, policy - makers, educators, and land and wildlife management experts to save the last surviving native Caribbean mammals.

This non-invasive technique lets researchers gather large DNA sample sizes of difficult - to - study wildlife species, such as big cats, without physically capturing, handling, or disturbing the animals.

To get a better idea of the genetic health and connectivity of jaguar populations in this area and the effectiveness of the existing wildlife corridors (i.e., stretches of habitat that facilitate movement between local populations), the researchers turned to DNA obtained from field - collected jaguar scat.

Researchers in the University of Wyoming's Department of Zoology and Physiology and Program in Ecology discovered that size does matter — as it pertains to the effectiveness of secondary species» wildlife protection relative to the size of a wildlife reserve set aside for an umbrella species.

To assess how well protected areas shelter wildlife from light pollution and preserve natural darkness, researchers analyzed satellite images of Earth collected at night by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program between 1992 and 2010.

Researchers in the University of Wyoming's Department of Zoology and Physiology and Program in Ecology discovered that reserve size and species similarity are the primary factors in determining whether multiple wildlife species are indirectly protected under the umbrella of a reserve created to enhance conservation for one species — in this case, the greater sage grouse in Wyoming.

A study by researchers at the University of Tennessee on how cougars use wildlife passages along the Trans - Canada Highway in and around Banff National Park found the cats prefer underpasses to overpasses — particularly those near prime habitat.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have established several key trends in wildlife trade following an in - depth study on international wildlife trade data.

A new paper from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), in partnership with researchers and practitioners from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Coast Guard, Space Quest, Google, and SkyTruth, reviews the use of a maritime vessel communication and navigational safety system that is not only effective in protecting people, but wildlife such as whales, walruses, and other wildlife species as well.

Using a novel gravity - underreporting model, the researchers carried out a comprehensive analysis and comparison of over 370,000 records of wildlife trade between 2004 and 2013 across three groups — mammals, avian and reptiles.

While the majority of climate change scientists focus on the «direct» threats of changing temperatures and precipitation after 2031, far fewer researchers are studying how short - term human adaptation responses to seasonal changes and extreme weather events may threaten the survival of wildlife and ecosystems much sooner.

Researchers at the Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology (DICE) at the University of Kent say that with over 4 million km2 of tropical forests harvested for timber worldwide, improving the way logging impacts on wildlife is essential for global biodiversity conservation.

Published today in the journal Climatic Change and just ahead of Earth Hour, the world's largest environmental event, researchers examined the impact of climate change on nearly 80,000 plant and animal species in 35 of the world's most diverse and naturally wildlife - rich areas.

These findings emerge from collaboration between researchers across Europe working to forecast how European wildlife will respond to climate change, as part of the BiodivERsA network.

The researchers then worked with the wildlife authorities to try to determine the probable source population of chicks that had been recently confiscated.

Lead researcher Prof Rachel Warren from the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at UEA said: «Our research quantifies the benefits of limiting global warming to 2 °C for species in 35 of the world's most wildlife - rich areas.

Researchers have taken a key step toward helping wildlife coexist more safely with wind power generation by demonstrating the success of an impact detection system that uses vibration sensors mounted to turbine blades.

Despite their extensive range, researchers know little about the behavior of these solitary creatures, says Mark Elbroch, a wildlife ecologist at the University of California, Davis.

Although an ideal monitoring program would include the sampling of both healthy and sick wildlife by trained professionals, the researchers propose that less costly alternatives could be used to effectively collect information.

The researchers hope their study leads to better measures for modeling and predicting infectious disease transmission, but there are still open questions about the human - wildlife interface of disease.

According to researchers at King Saud University who reviewed various DNA analysis technologies used in wildlife conservation for the Saudi Journal of Biological Sciences, the newly emerging discipline of conservation genetics has proven instrumental in creating better management plans for so - called «genetically deteriorated» wildlife populations.

Geographer James Cheshire and designer Oliver Uberti worked with researchers and wildlife experts to collect billions of data points, taken from digital tags on humpback whales, magnetic fields tracking badgers, QR codes mapping an individual ant, and more.

Researchers found the range of wildlife now affected by climate change is broad, and includes animals on every continent

The researchers worked on sites in the Arctic and Antarctic and took precautions to limit the impact of sunlight and wind, using tarpaulins to protect their sample sites and positioning themselves on the middle of a glacier away from soil and other forms of polar wildlife which might contaminate the snow.

The researchers tried to rectify that by tallying up the wildlife killed by free - roaming dogs in Poland (a nation roughly the size of New Mexico).

Additional researchers contributing to the papers include Liu; Thomas Dietz, MSU professor of environmental science and policy, sociology, and animal studies; Wei Liu, former CSIS doctoral student now a postdoctoral fellow at IIASA in Laxenburg, Austria; Junyan Luo, CSIS research associate; Daniel Kramer, MSU associate professor in fisheries and wildlife and James Madison College; Xiaodong Chen, former CSIS doctoral student now on faculty at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill.

To this end, the researchers selected an approach based on machine learning that is often used in nature and wildlife conservation to develop models for the distribution of various species of plants and animals.

In fact, the researchers say, the loss of wildlife habitat in Africa — and not human treatment programs — could be the main reason that sleeping sickness disease, usually called human African trypanosomiasis (HAT), is now on the retreat.

Before joining the Center she was a scientific researcher investigating global patterns of amphibian disease and the impacts of wildlife trade.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the J. Craig Venter Institute (JCVI), have created the first comprehensive, cross-species genomic comparison of all 20 known species of Leptospira, a bacterial genus that can cause disease and death in livestock and other domesticated mammals, wildlife and humans.

The Falkland Islands offer to their inhabitants, local and overseas researchers and tourists an incredible and amazing display of wildlife.

Wang was joined by co-authors Drs. Michael Corson, researcher with the French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Ouest, Rennes, France; Bill Grant, AgriLife Research ecologist, department of wildlife and fisheries sciences, College Station; and Teel to conduct the work.

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