and photograph wildlife in December. It was like traveling back in time when rivers were the main highways for both humans
and wildlife said de la Rosa director of the La Selva Biological Station for the Organization for Tropical Field Studies in San pedro Costa rica.
and see how they're reacting said Alex Hartman a USGS wildlife biologist at the Western Ecological Research center in Dixon California who helps oversee the shorebird-monitoring project.
For the most part we just let nature take its course and the birds can sort themselves out.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List lists them as Least Concern for extinction
Elusive Wildlife Caught in Photos Turner and her colleagues faced several challenges along the way including inquisitive animals knocking down cameras fires raging across the sites a run-in with a pride of lions on foot long hikes to sites in sweltering heat
This research has important implications for our understanding of anthrax in grazing wildlife and livestock Turner said.
and wildlife Flessa told Livescience. Research teams from agencies universities and environmental groups from both the United states and Mexico will monitor the effects of this pulse analyzing the area before the flood immediately following it and into the future.
Asiatic lions tend to be much bigger according to the World Wildlife Federation (WWF. They weigh 300 to 500 lbs.
This park is a wildlife sanctuary on 877.37 square miles (1412 square km) of land. The land includes a deciduous forest grasslands scrub jungle and rocky hills.
Panthera leo leo (African lion) Panthera leo persica (Asiatic lion) The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) only recognizes these two subspecies
while the Integrated Taxonomic Information system (ITIS) maintained by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service lists six other subspecies.
African lions are listed as vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. This is
confiscated ivory along with other illegal wildlife products in a public ceremony on Jan 6. The announcement released by the Wildlife Conservation Society
which works with governments to curtail ivory trafficking did not say exactly how much ivory and other material was to be destroyed
(and hugging) trees will change their range with the hotter and drier weather brought by climate change Bill Ellis a wildlife researcher at the University of Queensland in Australia who was involved not in the study wrote in an email to Live Science.
Conservation status The wild Bactrian camel is considered critically endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources.
#The Wilderness Act Turns 50 John Weaver senior conservation scientist for the Wildlife Conservation Society has conducted field research in many wild areas across western North america over the past 45 years.
Now many neo-conservationists believe we should intervene as technocratic managers to help Nature#by developing hybrid tree species to withstand hotter temperatures
Nature has been innovating with considerable talent for millions of years with repeated and marvelous success producing species
Protecting these wild places will help secure habitat for vulnerable wildlife safeguard their genetic integrity enhance connectivity
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature's (IUCN's) Red List of Threatened Species categorizes all remaining tiger species as endangered.
Most live on wildlife refuges to protect them from poachers. Tigers are fantastic swimmers. They can forge rivers
#End of the Hemlocks, a Lament (Op-Ed) Randy Edwards is a senior media relations manager for The Nature Conservancy
and has written about nature for nearly 20 years. This Op-Ed is adapted from one that appeared on the Nature Conservancy blog Conservancy Talk.
Edwards contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. The ash trees had to go.
Most people have only a passing acquaintance with the nature of the place where they live
Although most of us may not be able to name them we recognize their deep-green branches as they are commonly found in parks nature preserves and other protected natural areas.
(or were) a lot of old hemlock trees in nature preserves because the loggers didn't want them.
and were snatched up by organizations like The Nature Conservancy (which was early on sometimes derisively called the gully and hemlock society).
I didn't tell them that before my grandchildren are grown the adelgid is likely to kill those hemlocks as they have up to 90 percent of the hemlocks in the Great smoky mountains national park in The Nature Conservancy's Greenland Gap Preserve in West virginia
which appeared on the Nature Conservancy blog Conservancy Talk. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues
In Dewitt County Texas most people are convinced this is the elusive chupacabra said a reporter with KAVU News an ABC affiliate based in Victoria Texas though a wildlife biologist suggested it might be a dog or coyote.
Wildlife experts often see wild animals suffering from various stages of sarcoptic mange a skin disease that causes animals'hair to fall out
The International Union for Conservation of Nature lists the animals as a Least Concern though the organization admits it has no idea how large
The ancient ecosystem was detailed today (Feb 5) in the journal Nature. Pretty landscape In the past scientists imagined that the now-vast Arctic tundra was once a brown grassland steppe that teemed with wooly mammoths rhinos and bison.
Rabbit Breeds by Size Humane Society of the United states-Rabbit IUCN Red List-Oryctolagus cuniculus National geographic-Cottontail rabbit BBC Nature-Rabbi a
and traps but the populations are still growing according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
#Build a Better Drone, for Wildlife Conservation (Op-Ed) David Wilkie is director of conservation support
and sustainability and is part of the series The War for Wildlife: Dispatches from the Wildlife Conservation Society.
The authors contributed this article to Livescience's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights. Poachers are escalating the global war on wildlife through advanced technologies and techniques.
In Asia they are hacking into the signals from tigers'satellite collars to find and kill them.
To combat this sophisticated and expanding traffic in wildlife conservationists must themselves turn to new technologies
now these devices show great promise in strengthening wildlife law enforcement. Already authorities are using fixed-wing conservation UAVS to successfully keep track of hard-to-see rhinos in Nepal
while at the same time enhancing the effectiveness of wildlife law-enforcement and reducing risks to our courageous rangers.
The Wilkie's most recent Op-Ed was Conservation Is About Caring for Nature and People.
and destroyed 6 tons of ivory (including tusks and various carvings) by burning according to news reports and a release from the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS).
Elephant populations have been in decline across much of Africa with some 96 killed each day on average mostly for their ivory according to the Wildlife Conservation Society.
The study was published today (April 6) in the journal Nature. Starting at the microscopic level with minerals or grains in rocks the researchers investigated how rocks weaken
Creepy, Freaky Creatures That Are (Mostly) Harmless From snaggletoothed sharks to giant crabs nature is full of animals that frighten people often for no good reason.
Today the flock has about 95 birds that spend their spring and summer in wetlands at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere in central Wisconsin.
See Photos of the World's Cutest Baby Wild Animals I don't know that they actually think of us as whooping cranes said Glenn Olsen a veterinarian at the U s. Geological Survey's (USGS) Patuxent Wildlife Research center in Maryland who said he spends much of May through July
This differs from natural selection where nature actively chooses which mutations get passed on. While Coley remains confident that the Red Queen hypothesis will indeed prove to be a satisfactory explanation she also knows that a lot more data will be needed to get there.
and Kursar make a persuasive case for why nature seems to have endowed tropical regions with so many plant
But the puzzling dry season growth spurt has defied long explanation according to a study published yesterday (Feb 6) in the journal Nature.
To squeeze a whole life into a week seems like one of nature's more cruel tricks Zimmer wrote.
The research detailed in this week s issue of the journal Nature found that wheat rice
and nature Carson said. Natural cycles drove the rainforest to sprout but humans stayed on-site for 1500 years afterward he said.
I could see Kest not moving his overly practical nature telling him there was no point.
Big Sky Shrinking Glaciers Fading Wildlife. This article was adapted from'Better'Burgers Worse for Your Health No Better for the Climate
But the pharmaceutical industry is often dismissive of nature as a source of healing. It seems to overlook the fact that many of the most important classes of prescription drugs like ACE inhibitors for high blood pressure (first developed from Brazilian snake venom) beta blockers (from hallucinogenic Mexican fungi)
and their cultures and knowledge and along the way hopefully discover new medicines from nature.
The sixth-lightest element on the periodic table carbon exists in nature as two stable isotopes:
Alexander Hellemans is a freelance science writer who has written for Science Nature Scientific American and many others e
The brown bat can eat up to 1000 small insects in an hour according to the Defenders of Wildlife organization.
The Red List from the International Union for Conservation of Nature identifies more than 250 species as endangered vulnerable or near threatened.
The order which went into affect on June 20 cites noise harassment of wildlife and visitor safety as a few of the reasons for prohibiting these flying robots over federally administered lands and waters.
Screengrab Nature Video. The Maros karsts in southwest Sulawesi have dozens of caves. In addition to paintings archaeologists have found other traces of human occupation inside these cavers:
Screengrab Nature Video. The animal paintings inside Chauvet Cave in France were thought to be known the oldest examples of figurative art in the world.
In the early 1980s there were a lot of cave paintings on this site in the form of hand stencils (shown here) said Muhammad Ramli of the Preservation of Cultural Reserves Association in Indonesia as translated in a Nature video referring to the new finding.
Screengrab Nature Video. These calcium carbonate deposits which can take the form of cave popcorn (shown here) contain radioactive uranium.
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#Prehistoric Paintings in Indonesia May be Oldest Cave Art Ever Paintings of miniature buffalos warty pigs
The findings were published today (Oct 8) in the journal Nature. The Top 10 Mysteries of the First Humans The oldest painting a hand stencil was discovered on a 13-foot-high (4 meters) ceiling in a cave known as Leang Timpuseng in Sulawesi's southwestern peninsula.
Once in the air the sulfur would have transformed rapidly into sulfuric acid generating massive amounts of acid rain within a few days of the impact according to the study published today (March 9) in the journal Nature Geoscience.
In March the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service placed one of these species the lesser prairie chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) on its list of threatened wildlife.
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s flow during drought a portion that can seriously impact fish and wildlife American Rivers reports.
They grow to around 4. 5 to 5. 5 feet long (137.16 to 167.64 cm) and weight 50 to 80 pounds (23 to 36 kg) according to the Defenders of Wildlife organization.
The Eastern wolf also known as Great lakes wolf Eastern timber wolf Algonquin wolf or deer wolf has been deemed a distinct species from their western cousins according to a review by U s. Fish and Wildlife Service scientists.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources lists red wolves as critically endangered.
But It's a Welcome One (Op-Ed) Joe Walston is executive director of the Asia Program for the Wildlife Conservation Society.
Should we praise a monumental shift in approach to conservation by the world's biggest consumer of the world's wildlife
Nature s Giants: Tallest Trees On earth Subtle differences in geochemistry that arose more than 100 million years ago are now affecting life on the mountain range said Hahm.
Golden hamsters are considered vulnerable to extinction by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'Red List.
Wildlife which can normally flee a fire front can become trapped between the bushfire and the back burn.
Exacerbating impacts on wildlife is the technique known as blacking out#involving setting fire to unburnt areas that escaped combustion by the back burn.
Such unburnt patches can be critical refuges for wildlife and a sort of seed for recovery of adjacent burnt areas.
These include fire-sensitive plants habitat for endangered wildlife and areas recovering from a previous high-severity fire.
Likewise their wary nature suggests that climbing leads to improved site surveillance of potential threats and prey.
The 63-year-old Laysan albatross named Wisdom was spotted taking care of her newborn earlier this month on the Midway Atoll National Wildlife Refuge according to the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service.
which claimed 2000 of her fellow adult albatrosses and about 110000 chicks in the Midway wildlife refuge an island habitat in the middle of the North Pacific.
because they found similar results in a study the year before said Thierry who now works as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research.
From moms who turn their bodies into food to others who encourage their young to become cannibals here are the weirdest mothering techniques in nature.</
#Simply Copying Nature is No Way to Succeed at Inventing Just Ask Leonardo Da vinci (Op-Ed) This article was published originally at The Conversation.
One method is to look at nature. Some call this activity bionics others call it biomimetics.
The first step is to imitate nature and the second step is to abandon nature s ways.
At some point you have to give up the love affair dump nature and move on. The problem is that simply copying nature doesn t work.
Here is an example from my field structural materials. Bones are an excellent material providing support and strength.
Currently we can t make materials that reproduce a bone s internal structure. But even if we could we wouldn t be able to use it in engineering structures for many reasons.
First nature can live with failure but we can t . When we design a component for a car
But nature is happy to work with much higher failure rates: the chance of breaking a bone
The reason for this difference is that for nature the failure of an individual is of no consequence.
So nature is wasteful of individual lives in a way which we risk-averse humans can t tolerate.
His book Design in Nature: Learning from Trees is a classic on biomimetics. Mattheck s lifelong love affair with trees has led to many important innovations in engineering design.
if you remember that nature was only the starting point not the objective of the exercise.
#Nature can be a wonderful muse an excellent starting point in the development of a new engineering device
or material but don t make the mistake of thinking that nature has solved already your problems for you.
A team led by researchers with the Wildlife Conservation Society scooped up 85 leopard fecal samples as they scoured footpaths dried-up streams
and the nearest protected area was the Kalsubai Harishchandragad Wildlife Sanctuary 11 miles (18 kilometers) to the west.
of nature reserves in agricultural landscapes study researcher Ullas Karanth the Wildlife Conservation Society's director for Science-Asia said in a statement.
In nature mold s ability to break down detritus (waste) ensures that dead matter doesn t accumulate.
The grim numbers were released at a wildlife trafficking symposium in London this week to update a study published last year in the journal PLOS ONE
or one every 20 minutes day and night study researcher Fiona Maisels a biologist with the Wildlife Conservation Society said in a statement.
The new data was unveiled at the United for Wildlife International Wildlife Trafficking Symposium taking place Feb 11 and 12 at the Zoological Society of London.
In his 2005 book Last Child in the Woods which introduced the world to the term nature-deficit disorder journalist Richard Louv argued that children need to unplug from computers
Studies show that exposure to nature can help reduce ADHD symptoms; in schools with an environmental education component students score higher on standardized tests in math reading writing
and listening than their non-nature-exposed counterparts. Other positive effects include improved critical thinking problem solving and cooperation.
The antibiotic resistance study was an early hint about the dynamic nature of these genomes she adds.
and Prebiotics (ISAPP) published their findings this week in the journal Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology.
Seeing patterns in nature probably requires a mental search image for those patterns Byers said.
#New york's Power to Fight Illegal Ivory (Op-Ed) John Calvelli is executive vice president of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and director of the society's 96 Elephants campaign.
and with recently passed legislation in New jersey help close one of the nation's largest ports to this illegal wildlife trade.
Taking a Page from Eliot Ness to Fight Wildlife Trafficking (Op-Ed The New jersey Senate
In a recent study in Nature an international team of scientists found that iron and zinc concentrations were reduced substantially in wheat rice soybean
Wildlife conservation is also getting a boost thanks to several groups'efforts to use some of these Google tools to track invasive species map populations of endangered species
Video Jane Goodall's Wild Chimpanzees The monitors look for signs of human activity that could endanger wildlife
According to the World Wildlife Fund human activities have led to a 93 percent reduction in tigers'historic range.
Then the Kenyan Wildlife Service can send out a patrol to go out and investigate. We're at a crucial stage now where we can act
For instance Defenders of Wildlife is utilizing Google maps API to help demonstrate the impacts of the BP Deepwater horizon oil spill
And despite its vampirelike nature There's nothing supernatural about it Blacksburg told Live Science. Westwood and his colleagues studied how strangleweed parasitizes two common plants tomatoes and the small flowing plant Arabidopsis.
Despite the existence of these laws New york is one of the largest markets for illegal ivory in the United states according to the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)
In 2012 the New york state Department of Environmental Conservation together with the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service seized more than $2 million worth of ivory in New york city.
and the trade of arms and narcotics representatives from the World Wildlife Fund have said. In November 2013 the U s. destroyed six tons of ivory carvings jewelry and other trinkets that had been collected by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service through smuggling busts and confiscations.
The high-profile ivory crush was staged to send a global message that the material should no longer be used in commercial products.
The agreement asks member states to adopt more uniform penalties for wildlife trafficking including a sentence of up to four years in prison for organized wildlife crime.
Environmental groups applauded the move including the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) which estimates that 35000 elephants were killed by poachers in Africa last year a rate equivalent to 96 elephants killed each day.
Instead of slowing down as the centuries add up old trees speed up their growth according to a study published today (Jan 15) in the journal Nature.
Chiappe and his colleagues detailed their findings online today (July 15) in the journal Nature Communications.
I was fortunate to lead a few nature hikes during my trip and the attendees found more millipedes than I did.
Nature Conservancy CEO Mark Tercek also is vegan and has said on his blog: As an environmentalist I think our global consumption of meat is far too high.
I know a crime against nature when I see one. While there is certainly much public
and Wildlife Service said of New york's role in the illicit ivory Trade in Images: 100 Most Threatened Species New york is one of the largest markets for illegal ivory in the United states
and Wildlife Service seized more than $2 million worth of ivory from three businesses in New york city's Diamond District.
The bust represented a victory against the illegal commercialization of wildlife in New york but more still needs to be done Florence said.
During his witness testimony Woody called up two investigators from the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service to present several tusks and ivory carvings that had been seized by federal agents to the committee members.
and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) estimates that 96 elephants are killed each day by poachers in Africa.
and other trinkets that had been collected over 25 years by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service through smuggling busts and confiscations.
but given the complicated nature of glacial dynamics all of these attempts have been limited and prone to error.
The study findings were detailed earlier this month in the journal Nature Climate Change. Follow Laura Poppick on Twitter.
when it comes to offsets aimed at avoiding a threat rather than restoring wildlife. For example how threatened is the forest
Malika Virah-Sawmy previously worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and continues to support the organisation with promoting sustainable business practices.
The term#supertaster is born These differences in perception are partly due to the nature of the receptors in your mouth
Trap More Wolves (Op-Ed) Zack Strong is an NRDC wildlife advocate in Bozeman Mont.
and Wildlife Service's (FWS) proposed plan to remove Endangered Species Act protections from gray wolves in most of the lower-48 United states. This was the largest number of comments ever submitted on a federal
because removing federal protections from wolves means handing their management over to state governments and their wildlife agencies.
Continuing the disturbing pattern of state aggression toward wolves Montana's Fish Wildlife and Parks (FWP) Commission recently proposed several amendments to the state's wolf-management rules that would greatly expand the circumstances under
145 kilograms) according to the African Wildlife Foundation and an ostrich's eyes are 2 inches (5 centimeters) in diameter the largest of any land animal.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature's (IUCN) Red List most ostrich subspecies are endangered not though their populations are declining.
or if it was part of the apes'basic nature. A new 54-year study suggests this coordinated aggression is innate to chimpanzees
The study was published today (Sept. 17) in the journal Nature. Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter@Laurageggel and Google+.
Anthropologists David Samson of the University of Nevada Las vegas and Kevin Hunt of Indiana University in Bloomington examined 1844 chimpanzee nests in western Uganda's Toro-Semliki Wildlife Reserve.
and nature at that point and they really were about philosophy too.##When you re traveling you have these expectations of
They said If you're interested in nature you have to go visit this tree.
and nature reclaiming something over time that we as humans have torn apart in an instant.
but people unfortunately like their ivory tusks said the study's lead researcher George Wittemyer an assistant professor of fish wildlife and conservation biology at Colorado State university.
According to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species no flamingo species is considered currently endangered.
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'Red List the jaguar is threatened near due to poaching and the destruction of the rainforest.
Theworld Wildlife Federation states that there are only 15000 jaguars left in the wild. Their name comes from the Native American word yajuar.
Big Sky, Shrinking Glaciers, Fading Wildlife (Op-Ed) Elliott Negin is the director of news and commentary at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS.
and Wildlife Service (FWS) to determine in 2011 that the whitebark pine is in imminent risk of extinction due to among other things global warming the first time the federal government identified climate change as a contributing factor in a tree species
The findings were published March 16 in the journal Nature Communications. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
The occurrence of such patterning in nature is rather unusual study researcher Stephan Getzin of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig Germany said in a statement.
I started to realize how simply nature carves all these shapes Bruthans said. The scientists conducted experiments with oven-dried cubes of sandstone that were weak enough that running water could erode them.
The scientists detailed their findings online today (July 20) in the journal Nature Geoscience. Follow Live Science@livescience Facebook & Google+.
The previous study whose authors included six of the same authors as the more recent study concluded that the most recent common ancestor of TB was 70000 years old according to the paper published in the journal Nature Genetics.
The study was published today (Aug 20) in the journal Nature. Follow Laura Geggel on Twitter@Laurageggel and Google+.
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