or even dictating important aspects of sloth behavior especially their ritualized behavior of descending the tree to defecate wildlife ecologist Jonathan Pauli of the University of Wisconsin-Madison leader of the study published today (Jan 21) in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society
The ruminants Americans eat mainly cows pose the biggest threat to the climate according to an article in this month's edition of the journal Nature Climate Change.
and analysis at the Union of Concerned Scientists and a co-author of the Nature Climate Change article.
The results detailed online Jan 19 in the journal Nature Geoscience show that changes in climate can happen rapidly
#Taking a Page from Eliot Ness to Fight Wildlife Trafficking (Op-Ed) David Wilkie is director of conservation support at WCS.
It convinced U s. President Barack Obama to issue an Executive Order on Combating Wildlife Trafficking
and establish a highly influential Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking. And most recently it has prodded the European parliament to call for a moratorium on all ivory sales within the EU
and seize illicit flows of ivory and other illegally traded wildlife. Because the criminal gangs that finance the ivory trade work in cash they must move
and seize illicit funds is a potentially powerful additional way to curb wildlife trafficking. If the United states can bottle up the assets of traffickers they will have fewer resources to finance the illegal trade.
and the thousands of other participants in the illegal wildlife trade might become just a little less untouchable.
The Wilkie's most recent Op-Ed was Build a Better Drone for Wildlife Conservation.
Increased banditry illegal logging in national parks and nature reserves and a sharp increase in the hunting of lemurs as bush meat#has left them facing extinction.
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Both species of chinchilla are on the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural resources'endangered-species list.
According to Endangered Wildlife and Plants of the World Volume 5 (Marshall Cavendish Corp. 2001) some gazelles can live their entire lives
For example the Cuvier's gazelle's population is estimated at only 1750 to 2950 according to International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List.
An Aug 3 study in the journal Nature Climate Change found that faster trade winds over the Pacific bring up cold water and cool the atmosphere.
An Aug 17 study also in Nature Climate Change suggested the Pacific Decadal Oscillation climate cycle might be responsible for the hiatus. That cycle flips every 20 to 30 years.
and Southern Oceans said England who co-authored the Aug 3 Nature Climate Change study. Email Becky Oskin or follow her@beckyoskin. Follow us@livescience Facebook & Google+.
Michigan State university (MSU) panda habitat experts revealed the oft-hidden yet significant conservation conflict between pandas and horses in a recent article in the Journal for Nature Conservation.
Panda in Wolong Nature Reserve eating lunch from CSIS at MSU on Vimeo. For years timber harvesting has been the panda's biggest threat.
Vanessa Hull a doctoral student at MSU's Center for Systems Integration and Sustainability (CSIS) has been living off and on for seven years in the Wolong Nature Reserve most recently tracking pandas that she has outfitted with GPS collars.
This aspect of wildlife forensic science is supported by the United nations Office for Drugs and Crime and has already proved highly successful in tracking seizures and locating their source.
With that knowledge pressure applied saw Zambia s director of wildlife replaced and its courts start to impose harsher sentences for ivory smugglers in order to tackle the problem at source.
The illegal trade in wildlife is highly profitable and well-organised. If nations wish to save the African elephant then action to provide
One of the World s Most Endangered Primates In 2012 the International Union for the Conservation of Nature described 91 percent of the 103 known species and subspecies of lemurs as threatened with extinction;
How about insights into the culture of pornography or the nature of sexual fantasy?</</p><p>If so have we got the journal for you.</
#Zoos, Aquariums and Their Visitors Are Critical Advocates for Conservation (Op-Ed) John Calvelli is executive vice president for public affairs at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and director of the 96 Elephants campaign.
Taking a Page from Eliot Ness to Fight Wildlife Trafficking (Op-Ed) Our presence at the AZA's Winter Meeting gave more institutions an opportunity to hear our message
Chances are pretty good that you will be learning about the latest crisis befalling our wildlife partners on this planet
and get to the food then cold temperature might actually cause some mortality urban ecologist Steve Sullivan of the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museumin Chicago told Fox news Chicago.
On May 21 the Brazilian government World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and partners announced the creation of a $215 million fund to ensure long-term protection of the world's largest network of protected areas 150
The Nubian ibex is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature because its numbers are decreasing;
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The discovery of these bacteria also revealed clues to the dental hygiene and diets of these centuries-old humans according to the study detailed today (Feb 24) in the journal Nature Genetics. 5 Surprising Ways to Banish Bad
Rhino Horn and Tiger Bone Vietnam could be the latest country to destroy its stockpiles of illegal wildlife products.
and tiger bone the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) announced. In recent years the international community has recognized that Vietnamese citizens have emerged as key players in global illegal wildlife trade as traders transporters traffickers
and end-consumers for wildlife Susan Lieberman WCS executive director of conservation policy said in a statement applauding the move.
If this decision is turned into action it will set a high standard for other governments and reinforce Vietnam s commitment to treating wildlife crime as serious crime Lieberman said.
Vietnam would join other countries that have destroyed recently their stockpiles of confiscated illegal wildlife items often used in traditional Asian medicines luxury goods and souvenirs.
In February France pulverized more than 15000 pieces of ivory mostly trinkets seized at airports over a 20-year span.
Despite international bans wildlife products like ivory and rhino horn remain in high demand fueling poaching
According to International Union for Conservation of Nature there are 7000 yellow-headed Amazons left in the wild.
A Zookeeper's Life (Op-Ed) Christopher Scoufaras is a zookeeper at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)' s Queens Zoo.
and relegated wildlife to small parcels of protected lands. This fragmentation has had its greatest impact on highly migratory species like buffalo that require large intact landscapes.
In what was the first wildlife restoration effort in the world buffalo were saved through the persistent efforts of early conservation champions like Theodore Roosevelt William Hornaday Ernest Thompson Seton
and wildlife but unfortunately are no longer able to fully express that relationship because of the absence of buffalo.
My wildlife expert colleagues at NRDC are recommending several steps that the EPA can take to protect monarchs.
and wildlife pollute water and deplete nutrients in the soil. Excess fertilizer from agriculture is a significant source of global-warming pollution.
Nature's Giants: Photos of the Tallest Trees On earth Biggest straw On earth Since the 1950s the Sierra nevada snowpack has shrunk by nearly 15 percent.
The World Wildlife Fund has determined that DNA evidence proves that the Borneo pygmy elephantis genetically different from other Asian elephants.
According to the Red List of Threatened Species of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) the Asian elephant is endangered.
According to the African Wildlife Foundation there are around 470000 African elephants roaming the globe. The African elephant can be identified by its ears.
because it will be worn more down than the less dominant tusk according to the World Wildlife Fund.
#'Climate Smart'Agriculture Is Blossoming (Op-Ed) David Cleary Director of Agriculture at The Nature Conservancy contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
and several other countries in taking a stand against wildlife trafficking. Earlier this month Belgian Deputy Prime minister Laurette Onkelinx announced plans to destroy all the illegal ivory seized by customs on April 9.
and the Wildlife Conservation Society estimates that 96 elephants are killed each day by poachers in Africa.
and smuggling busts by the U s. Fish and Wildlife Service in November. Officials in Hong kong also announced their plan to burn more than 30 tons of elephant tusks and ivory products throughout the first half of this year.
#Developing World Boasts Leading Women Conservationists (Op-Ed) Danielle Labruna is a geographic information systems specialist in the Conservation Support Program of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.
Blogs from the Wildlife Conservation Society. The views expressed are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher.
& Mary in 1956 and has been active in wildlife recovery and restoration efforts ever since he was called a legend more than 20 years ago
#Food safety Returns To Nature (ISNS) Outbreaks of foodborne diseases carried by bacteria can be a nuisance at best and deadly at worst.
It's also relatively easy to find a similar phage in nature said Gill. Given those economic concerns getting to clinical trials for human treatment takes millions of dollars that many drug companies aren t willing to invest.
#oethey re the most abundant organism you can find in nature. We re just harnessing that antibacterial process#Ebner said.
The new findings were published today (June 26) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers suspect that the close living style of the guenon species combined with repeated expansion
Not Popcorn and Crumbled Bread (Op-Ed) Deborah Robbins Millman is the director of Cape Wildlife Center one of New england's largest wildlife rehabilitation centers
There has been little scientific study done on the condition yet most wildlife and waterfowl experts agree the overwhelming cause of angel wing is an unhealthily high protein and/or carbohydrate-based diets.
Wild Animals Suffer on'Junk Food'Diets Cape Wildlife Center our wildlife rehabilitation center based in Barnstable Mass
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Groot a walking talking tree seems to defy nature but how outlandish is the idea of a plant-animal hybrid?
In 4-ethyloctanal we identified a novel chemical that had never been demonstrated in nature before.
If you do the things right you can reveal some of nature's secrets Plafker said.
and its use shifted from ritualistic to hedonistic in nature she added. Drug plants on the other hand were cultivated never on a large scale.
When the kits leave the nest they don't travel farther than 2 miles from home according to the Massachusetts Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.
According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Red List these species are endangered:
and allowing them to graze in the protected panda habitat of Wolong National Nature Reserve new research finds.
The findings published in the Journal for Nature Conservation this week have made a difference however.
When Liu Hull and their colleagues presented the results to Wolong Nature Reserve officials they banned horses from the reserve.
Joel Berger a senior scientist with the Wildlife Conservation Society and chair of wildlife biology at the University of Montana posted the picture on Twitter from eastern Russia's remote Wrangel Island.
and herding fundamentally changing human society and how people related to nature. To discover more about the initial conditions underlying the evolution of villages an international team of scientists investigated the site of AÅ Ä klä HÃ yã k the earliest known Neolithic mound in Cappadocia in central Turkey.
and his colleagues wrote Wednesday (April 23) in the journal Nature Communications. The researchers used an ocean model called the Nucleus for European Modeling of the Ocean (NEMO)
The creatures arrived at Vanatori Neamt Nature Park Romania on April 25. They will spend the next several weeks in a large enclosure to get used to their new home before being released.
One of the bison a female named Glen Rosa born in July 2012 was raised at Scotland's Highland Wildlife Park
The World's Biggest Beasts Glen Rosa and the other bison will join an already established herd in Vanatori Neamt Nature Park Romania to help augment both numbers
and genetic diversity within the group Douglas Richardson head of living collections for Highland Wildlife Park said in a statement.
The species is considered vulnerable by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN. Bison had a similar trajectory in the United states. Tens of millions of the animals once roamed the Great plains
Both are listed on the 25 Most Endangered Primates list published by the International Union for Conservation of Nature Species Survival Commission Primate Specialist Group.
Those who live here seem as tough as the desert landscape they inhabit living as much at the margins of nature as they have at the margins of American society.
Nature's 10 Biggest Pests An estimated 40 people in the United states die every year from stings by hymenoptera species. That group of insects includes some 150000 species of bees
David Ainley a senior wildlife ecologist at ecological consulting firm H. T. Harvey & Associates who studies Antarctic penguin colonies says that aside from giving Magellanic chicks the chills rain can also damage the burrows
The Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) has estimated that some 96 elephants are killed each day on average mostly for their ivory.
The African Wildlife Foundation's CEO Patrick Bergin also said that by incinerating its stockpile Hong kong will raise awareness that owning ivory has a dark side one that is connected to wholesale elephant slaughter civil unrest terrorism and a complex supply
The scientists detailed their findings online today (April 29) in the journal Nature Communications. Follow us@Livescience Facebook & Google+.
One species that is implicated in human wildlife conflict is the brown hyaena (Parahyaena brunnea. Brown hyaenas are classified as Near Threatened#with an estimated 2500 free ranging animals remaining in South africa.
The International Union for Conservation of Nature suggests that brown hyaenas are under threat from human persecution
Wildlife surveys have been enhanced greatly by the development of camera traps. A key factor is the capture confirmation
but they were eliminated from eastern North america within 200 years of colonization according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.
The U s. Fish and Wildlife Service lists the Florida panther the Costa rican puma and the Eastern puma as endangered.
NASA's Earth Observatory released a new high-resolution image of an Alaskan forest near the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge that has been left off of most maps.
#USDA Wildlife Services Should End Indiscriminate Killing (Op-Ed) Zack Strong is an NRDC wildlife advocate in Bozeman Mont.
This op-ed was adapted from one that appeared on The Wildlife News. Strong contributed this article to Live Science's Expert Voices:
Each year Wildlife Services a little-known agency within the U s. Department of agriculture (USDA) shoots traps and poisons millions of animals including about 100000 native carnivores ostensibly to resolve conflicts between people and wildlife.
However thousands of these animals are killed unintentionally and many more are killed before any conflict has occurred even.
carefully documents the non-selective nature of many of the lethal devices and methods used by Wildlife Services
and interviews former Wildlife Services agents who explain that inevitably these practices kill many wild animals by mistake.
For example Wildlife Services uses spring-loaded devices called M-44s that shoot cyanide into the mouth of whatever animal happens to tug on the baited head.
Wildlife Services agents also use a variety of traps and snares. These devices often capture non-target animals including rare and threatened species such as wolverines lynx and grizzly bears.
According to Wildlife Services'own data in 2012 the agency mistakenly caught and killed more than 520 animals in leghold traps
even though their indiscriminate nature has been known for decades. For example in 1975 a former government-employed trapper testified before the U s. Congressabout the non-selective nature of leghold traps as referenced in the book Cull of the Wild:
A Contemporary Analysis of Wildlife Trapping in the United states: Even though I was experienced an professional trapper my trap victims included non-target species such as bald eagles and golden eagles a variety of hawks and other birds rabbits sage grouse pet dogs deer
antelope porcupines sheep and calves...My trapping records show that for each target animal I trapped about 2 unwanted individuals were caught.
And scientists continue to describethe indiscriminate nature of snares. While studying the impacts of wolf snares on moose Alaska biologist Craig Gardner reported in the journal Alces:
Another particularly ugly method employed by Wildlife Services is shooting predators from planes and helicopters sometimes killing them sometimes just catastrophically wounding them.
Perhaps most egregiously Wildlife Services is funded largely by taxpayer dollars and many of its operations occur on federal and state lands.
This means that in many instances the federal government is using public funds on public lands to kill publicly owned wildlife to benefit a private few.
It's why we've pushed for federal legislation prohibiting the use of poisons to kill wildlife.
And it's why we'll continue to work toward reasonably reforming Wildlife Services particularly its program of predator control by banning the use of indiscriminate poisons requiring prioritization of nonlethal prevention measures
and dollars spent on killing wildlife especially the mistakes. The author's most recent op-ed was Montana Landowners May Soon Shoot Trap More Wolves.
This op-ed was adapted from one that appeared on The Wildlife News. Follow all of the Expert Voices issues
These forests provide food (especially fruiting trees) habitat and connectivity to other patches of forest for wildlife.
Researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society have documented use of the corridors by white-lipped peccaries an important indicator species that reveals much about the health of the ecosystem.
and habitat that wildlife need and increases the chance of conflict between people their cows and predators with fewer and fewer prey options.
There are ways to preserve the traditional ranching way of life in the Pantanal that protect its magnificent wildlife populations.
Finally awareness of the unique success story that is traditional Pantanal ranching should encourage more visitors birders wildlife aficionados families interested in a ranch vacation to come.
What they will find will surely alter their perception of Brazil as a land known more for deforestation than sustainable ranching that supports rather than undermines the protection of local wildlife.
Nature makes the rules and life finds the loopholes as the old saying goes. Our loopholes may come from finding solutions to our demands for continuing our good life without destroying the planet.
and American black bears) are endangered or vulnerable according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The giant panda is endangered the most bear.
According to the World Wildlife Federation there are only 20000 to 25000 polar bears left. The IUCN lists sun bears and sloth bears as vulnerable due to habitat loss. e
#A Centenary for the Last Passenger pigeon (Op-Ed) Steve Zack is coordinator of Bird Conservation for the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS.
and created numerous parks and reserves for wildlife. Arguably such actions and public interest have meant fewer extinctions
and now Africa with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently recognizing 12 of the 16 species as at risk.
According to the World Wildlife Federation& (WWF) gorillas are the world's largest primate. Mountain gorillas live in Rwanda Uganda and the Democratic republic of the congo on green volcanic mountains.
All 4 Gorilla Subspecies The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists the Gorilla beringei species (mountain gorillas
The anonymity and online nature of how science papers are reviewed can make the message even blunter.
Bighorn sheep are endangered not according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. It is estimated that there are 15500 to 15700 bighorn sheep in Canada
She has landed On earth to create games about nature for her fellow Blorbians. Many aspects of Earth including plants animals
they including Plum have been longing to experience nature On earth. So Plum commandeers a space ship
and document their progress using the web game Nature Sketchpad or the mobile app Plum s Photo Hunt (iphone ipod Touch ipad) allowing children to draw scenes
#oethe drawing submissions from the online Nature Sketchpad and the photographic submissions from Plum s Photo Hunt app feed in an orderly way into a Django database for
#Up Ahead WGBH is now working on a family engagement campaign for the fall a national initiative designed to appeal directly to families to get outside connect with nature
Wild water buffalo are endangered according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature. They have a population of less than 4000 though it is uncertain
and has a population of 900000 according to the African Wildlife Foundation. Male water buffalo have horns that curve backward.
Nature Newsa plague of crop-eating caterpillars has struck Liberia and a second wave could spread across West Africa in the next few weeks,
Nature Newsozone experts are exploring ways to curb powerful greenhouse gases of their own making under the Montreal Protocol,
which is 11,700 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas (M. Wara Nature 445,595-596;
Nature Newslike many remote islands, the Galapagos islands that fired Charles darwin's imagination are both a hotbed of biodiversity
An account of the eradication is published in the Journal of Wildlife Management1. The island has been monitored
Nature Newstrees in the western United states and Canada are dying more quickly than they used to,
Nature Newswhen the Ebola Reston virus was discovered in pigs in the Philippines last year, it marked the virus's first known foray outside primates,
Nature 438,575-576; 2005). ) It's almost certainly the case in the Philippines, says Rollin.
Nature Newson 13 january, the US Department of agriculture (USDA) launched a service that allows dairy-cattle breeders to double their chances of selecting the best bulls to sire milk-producing cows.
Nature Newstropical forest that has regrown after clear-cutting can become almost as biodiverse as untouched forest, according to new research.
Nature Newsthe European union (EU) is due next month to finally approve controversial legislation to tighten up pesticide rules.
Nature Newsa team of researchers at the University of Bristol, UK, is suggesting that changing the crops farmers grow might help to cool the planet by reflecting more sunlight.
Nature Newsplants cannot make methane, say researchers seeking to resolve a mystery that has puzzled biologists for several years.
Nature Newsclick here for a description of who's who. On the role of science:
Nature Newswith a combination of carefully groomed landscapes and the natural splendour of tropical rainforests, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical garden (XTBG) in China's southwestern Yunnan province is renowned for its exceptional beauty (see map.
and restore some of those in the buffer zones of national nature reserves that have been converted to rubber plantations.
to serve as crucial links between islands of existing nature reserves. A special village committee runs the fund,
Nature Newsrising temperatures during crop-growing seasons will pose a serious threat to food security by 2090, scientists report.
Nature Newssaleemul Huq of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) in London, is a pioneer of adaptation to climate change.
Nature News caught up with Huq in Dhaka, Bangladesh, at the Third International Conference on Community Based Adaptation to Climate Change,
Nature Newsthe climate community is counting the costs of losing NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO),
Nature Newsas farmers around the world anxiously monitor the march of a deadly orange fungus across their wheat fields,
Nature Newschina must rapidly improve its outdated irrigation infrastructure if its ambitious plans to save water are to be realized,
Nature Newseurope has failed to reach a decision on whether France and Greece should be ordered to lift their national bans on cultivation of a genetically modified maize (corn) known as MON801,
Nature Newsresearchers warn that the overuse of nitrogen fertilizer in China is poisoning air, soil and water and say farmers could cut their use of the fertilizers without compromising crop yields.
Nature Newsaustralian firefighters are desperately trying to extinguish the worst bushfires that the country has seen in decades, causing more than 170 deaths so far in the state of Victoria.
Nature asks if savage blazes such as these will get more frequent in a warming world,
Nature Newsthe creation of human-animal hybrid embryos proposed as a way to generate embryonic stem cells without relying on scarce human eggs has met with legislative hurdles and public outcry.
Nature Newsone of the most famous experiments in biology isn't the solid piece of work it's usually portrayed as,
because nature speaks with an unambiguous voice. Speaking as a sociologist, I'd say it's a historical process,
Nature Newsthe tropical forests of South america, Africa and Asia take up and release huge amounts of carbon each year.
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