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Released: 18-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Planning for Coastal Run-Off
Wildlife Conservation Society

1. Planning for linkages among terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems can help managers mitigate the impacts of pollution from land-based run-off on water quality and coastal ecosystem services, which affect the

Released: 17-Jul-2019 9:00 AM EDT
Cat Claw Conundrum Confuses Conservationists
Wildlife Conservation Society

1. Researchers have long believed that the IUCN Endangered fishing cat (Prionailurus Viverrinus), was the only small-to-medium sized cat species in Southeast Asia that left distinct claw marks in its tracks.

Released: 21-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Sea Stars Get a Check-Up
Wildlife Conservation Society

Sea star wasting disease has killed millions of seas starts along the Pacific coast since 2013, so there is a need for diagnostic tests to evaluate their health.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Where Wildlife go to Die
Wildlife Conservation Society

Researchers identified global concentrations on land and at sea of 4,543 species threatened by unsustainable commercial harvesting.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Farming Sea Cucumbers
Wildlife Conservation Society

The dried body wall of sea cucumber is a valuable marine export commodity in Papua New Guinea (PNG), but overfishing led the National Fisheries Authority (NFA) to impose a moratorium on the fishery in October 2009.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Does the Fishing Cat Still Fish in Myanmar?
Wildlife Conservation Society

The distribution of the fishing cat (Prionailurus viverrinus) in Myanmar remains poorly known.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Carrion Crisis: There’s a Major Decline in Scavengers
Wildlife Conservation Society

Many scavenger species are in a state of rapid decline and there is growing evidence these declines can drastically alter ecological food webs.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Identifying Conservation “Hot Spots” for the Nile River
Wildlife Conservation Society

The river Nile flows across 11 African countries, supporting millions of human livelihoods, and holding globally important biodiversity and endemism yet no basin-wide spatial conservation planning has been attempted to date

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Putting the “Protect” in Marine Protected Areas
Wildlife Conservation Society

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a critical defense against biodiversity loss in the world's oceans, but to realize near-term conservation benefits

Released: 14-Jun-2019 3:05 PM EDT
Tracking the Illegal Pangolin Trade in Africa’s Gulf of Guinea
Wildlife Conservation Society

Populations of Asian pangolins have severely declined, and intercontinental trafficking of African pangolin scales to Asia has emerged in the last decade with coastal countries in the Gulf of Guinea have been highlighted as hotspots of illegal pangolin trade.

Released: 14-Jun-2019 2:05 PM EDT
Tropical Crops Need Bugs
Wildlife Conservation Society

Hymenoptera, a large order of insects that contains bees and wasps, is the main group of pollinators in agricultural systems, yet little is known about the role they play in pollination networks and the dependence of plants on specific pollinators in tropical agroecosystems.



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