Sentences with phrase «species conservation research»

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By funding scientific research, conservation programs and community outreach efforts, its mission is to protect the waters and its vast marine wildlife, ensuring that The Bahamas will remain a haven for a myriad of one - of - a-kind, rare and endangered species for generations to come.

As Shedd Aquarium's Director of Marine Research, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queeResearch, Kessel will oversee a suite of marine conservation research projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queeresearch projects aimed at protecting commercially important Caribbean species, such as endangered Nassau grouper and threatened queen conch.

Activities will include construction and maintenance of protective fencing, wildlife tracking, educating the public about endangered species conservation, and research.

You can be part of Chuck's team in the Bahamas in two ways: Sign up for Shedd's next iguana research expedition or support his 20 - years - and - counting conservation fieldwork for these endangered species through a generous donation to our annual fund.

«Our research showed that conservation efforts for migratory species work in certain circumstances, but we also identified regions and groups of animals in trouble,» Hardesty - Moore explained.

The results of a large - scale survey of venom variation in the two snake species, published January 8, 2015 in the journal Genetics, challenge common assumptions in venom evolution research, provide crucial information for rattlesnake conservation, and will help coral snake antivenom development.

Now, an international research team under the leadership of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of research team under the leadership of the German Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Research (IZW) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles BulletinConservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Species Survival Commission, has published a roadmap for more targeted conservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletinconservation efforts for Bornean cats and small carnivores in a special supplement of the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.

Mortelliti, who holds degrees from the La Sapienza (University of Rome), is an Assistant Professor in Wildlife Habitat Conservation at the University of Maine, where his lab's research is focused on the impact of land - use change on vertebrate species (mammals and birds).

Earlier this year, STRI research associate William Laurance published a paper in Science, stressing the importance of considering wildlife conservation during transportation infrastructure planning, because it is well known in the conservation community that roads «can unleash a Pandora's box of environmental ills, such as land encroachment, wildlife poaching, forest fragmentation, exotic species invasions and illegal mining.»

Supported by the São Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP under the aegis of its Research Program on Biodiversity Characterization, Conservation, Restoration & Sustainable Use (BIOTA - FAPESP, the study relied on the collaboration of the City's Animal Health Control Center and its Department of Parks & Green Areas to carry out a collection of 37,972 specimens of the family Culicidae (which gathers flies commonly known as mosquitoes) from nine municipal parks — later laboratory analysis would show that these mosquitoes belonged to 73 species and 14 genera.

«This is the first large - scale gillnet ban to save a species from extinction, and includes provisions for the development of alternative fishing gear to replace gillnets,» said Barbara Taylor, chair of the Society's Conservation Committee, who recently returned from more than two months aboard a research ship surveying the northern Gulf of California for vaquita.

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.

But, according to evolutionary biologist John Gittleman of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, the research raises the point that «it's not effective to do conservation science one species at a time.

Panthera Research Associate and Wildlife Conservation Network Conservation Initiatives Director, Dr. Peter Lindsey, shared, «Africa's incredible protected areas hold the key to securing the future of lions and several other wildlife species, and can yield significant benefits for people.

The researchers hope their work will help resource managers and scientists keep a close eye on species that are moving north with climate change over time, and predict their impact on other species so they can concentrate conservation efforts and future research accordingly.

Shivan Parusnath, currently a PhD student at Wits University, conducted a conservation assessment of the species for his Masters research.

Dr. Barbara Durrant, Director of Reproductive Physiology at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research said, «Normal semen parameters for Rafetus are unknown as this was the first attempt to collect and examine sperm from this species.

James Mead, a vertebrate paleontologist with East Tennessee State University, said more research into the evolutionary history of native plants and animals on Abaco is needed as well as conservation programs based on paleontological research that aims to restore these species.

The dominant approach to conservation has been to focus on protecting pristine environments, but new research from Australia demonstrates that on average, urban environments contain disproportionately more threatened protected species in a given area than non-urban environments.

«While urbanization has caused cities to lose large numbers of plants and animals, the good news is that cities still retain endemic native species, which opens the door for new policies on regional and global biodiversity conservation,» said lead author and NCEAS working group member Myla F. J. Aronson, a research scientist in the Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural Resources at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

«Although the results of this study cause us a great deal of concern» said Ekwoge Abwe, coauthor of the study and manager of San Diego Zoo Global's Ebo Forest Research Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect themResearch Project, «we are encouraged that it highlights the importance of the proposed Ebo National Park where we have been conducting a long - term and ongoing research and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect themresearch and conservation program geared towards the protection of primate species and the reduction of the bushmeat practices that directly affect them.»

Weighing the benefits of improved scientific understanding of threatened species for conservation, against the research impacts on endangered animals is complicated.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

This research was funded primarily by a variety of grants from the Morris Animal Foundation, University of Minnesota, Margot Marsh Biodiversity Foundation, Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund, and a PharmacoNeuroImmunology Fellowship through the National Institutes of Health.

The research group will further investigate what kind of microclimates the species need for survival.The maps can be used not only for further climate and forest research, but also for conservation and land - use planning.

He added: «Our research has the potential to improve the way we manage conflicts between wildlife conservation and agricultural activities — not just involving large grazing bird species — but perhaps lions which prey on livestock in rural Africa, or hen harriers feeding on economically valuable grouse in the UK.»

The UK - based Predator Conservation Trust has established the Brown Hyena Research Project to help form strategies to promote the long - term survival of the species and its southern Africa habitat.

In a surprising and innovative move, the delegates also agreed that scientific findings from animal behavior research — including the concept that some cetacean species have cultures — should be considered in conservation decisions and strategies for these marine mammals.

In addition to much needed conservation efforts, Detwiler and her team also are working to solve the evolutionary puzzle of the Dryas monkey using genomic research to test the hypothesis that this species is a close relative of the Vervet monkey.

Scientists studying the potential effects of climate change on the world's animal and plant species are focusing on the wrong factors, according to a new paper by a research team from the Wildlife Conservation Society, University of Queensland, and other organizations.

As much a profile of Church and his rise to renowned scientist as it is a tour of the latest research on climate change, species extinction and conservation biology, author Mezrich's telling is riveting and almost too like fiction to be believed.

«Understanding the complexity of toad breeding habitat is critical to the conservation of the species,» said Stephanie Barnes, an aquatic biologist on the Sierra National Forest, where 10 of the research meadows were located.

This image by Hara Woltz, a conservation biologist from Columbia University (US), was taken while researching ecological interactions between species and landscapes in the archipelago, and depicts a Galápagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra) on Santa Cruz Island utilizing a human road.

«That would be conclusive evidence of biological species - level differences — a natural test,» says Scott Baker, a conservation geneticist at Oregon State University, Corvallis, who was not involved in the research.

We are piecing together a puzzle of both the ecology of this endangered species and the areas that are most critical to them,» said Dr. Alistair Dove, Vice President of Research and Conservation at Georgia Aquarium, a co-author on the study.

«We had to learn how to feed this species, we had to learn about its reproductive physiology, and thank goodness we started as early as we did because now it looks like [captive breeding] is a serious need for the species,» says Terri Roth, director of the zoo's Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife, which works closely with Indonesia's Sumatran Rhino Sanctuary in Way Kambas National Park.

Should humpback whales be removed from the threatened species list, a direct consequence for conservation biology could be the redirection of research and management funding to enhance the survival of other species and ecosystems that are in greater risk of extinction.

Research by Yale and the University of Grenoble documents where additional conservation efforts globally could most effectively support the safeguarding of species (some examples shown here) that are particularly distinct in their functions or their position in the family tree of life.

Slated for the ax are the Center for Materials Research and Education, which seeks to improve preservation and curation techniques for museum artifacts, and the Conservation and Research Center (CRC), a 1290 - hectare rural breeding and study facility for threatened or endangered species, operated by the zoo.

«This paper is both important and interesting, because it takes a species we consider «common» and examines the reasons for its decline,» adds Rutgers University Distinguished Professor of Biology Joanna Burger, a tern conservation expert who was not involved in the research.

«Now we know we have four distinct species, that makes it easier for conservation groups to convince African governments and other larger conservation groups to make a point that these giraffes need to be protected,» Janke, who conducted the new research, told The Christian Science Monitor.

Emma Pelton, endangered species conservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of westeconservation biologist at the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of westeConservation and co-author of the study, said the research will help conservationists better understand the extinction risk of western monarchs.

The topic for each talk will be specifically on Acoustics, both passive and active, emphasizing applications and technological developments relevant to fisheries and ecosystem research / management and protected species conservation (i.e., relevant to the NMFS mandate).

His biotechnology - based conservation program aims to develop an interdisciplinary platform for research, education, and service to prevent the loss of plant species valuable to life on earth.

In a letter published in Science, a group of conservationists and conservation scientists, including members of the IUCN Saola Working Group and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research Berlin, have voiced their concern about the future of the species and stressed the importance of urgent ex situ management...

«With nearly 200 authors and 47 chapters, «Snow Leopards» covers a wide range of topics from ecology, threats, conservation success stories, new research tools and technologies and country status reports, concluding with an outlook for the species» future.

Dr Andy Marshall, Senior Lecturer in York's Environment Department and Director of Conservation Science at Flamingo Land, set up the Schools for Forests campaign with the University's CIRCLE research team after discovering a new species of tree in East Africa.

«Snow Leopards,» Part of New Series, «Biodiversity of the World Conservation From Genes to Landscapes» was edited by Dr. Tom McCarthy and Dr. David Mallon, recognised snow leopard experts with more than 50 years of collective experience in research and conservation of Conservation From Genes to Landscapes» was edited by Dr. Tom McCarthy and Dr. David Mallon, recognised snow leopard experts with more than 50 years of collective experience in research and conservation of conservation of the species.

His research is at the interface of ecosystems, land use, and climate change focusing on tropical deforestation and degradation, functional diversity of tropical canopies, conservation of African savannas, invasive species and climate change, and the effects of land use on the global carbon cycle.

Lin will study threatened marine wildlife in South China to address illegal trade of these species, and use research and monitoring to reduce poaching and expand conservation.