Captive breeding is becoming increasingly attractive for conservation programs where re-introduction is anticipated. Such technique requires implementation of rigorous protocols starting with the understanding of life-history traits under captive conditions.
A troublesome trend is occurring at colleges and universities around the country: fewer students are graduating with degrees in natural resource related degree programs. As a result, the number of qualified professionals to manage fish and wildlife programs is dwindling.
The Indian Vulture, Gyps indicus, is listed as ‘Critically Endangered’ on the IUCN Red List of Threatened SpeciesTM. This robust and scruffy scavenger used to be found in villages, towns and cities near cultivated and wooded areas in south-eastern Pakistan and India.
Over 500 crocodile babies take their first steps in life. All 500 of them came from from 16 gharial crocodile nests, all laid on one tiny island.
A new University of Georgia study that is the first to examine comprehensively the magnitude of hydrocarbon gases released during the Deepwater Horizon Gulf of Mexico oil discharge has found that up to 500,000 tons of gaseous hydrocarbons were emitted into the deep ocean.
The more humanity acidifies and warms the world’s oceans with carbon emissions, the harder we will have to work to save our coral reefs.
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