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Avian bird flu surges in New York urban wildlife, increasing disease concerns
6+ day, 10+ hour ago (1479+ words) NEW YORK " Catherine Quayle has been caring for sick and injured wild animals in New York City for the past 12 years, first as a volunteer at the Wild Bird Fund, the city's only wildlife rehabilitation center, and now as that…...
Colombia's main river redraws the map of little-known night monkeys
14+ hour, 21+ min ago (641+ words) I became very passionate about those animals, in fact, when I was in school, my favorite pastime was to go outside and lie down under their sleeping place, to watch them do nothing," Montilla, now a doctoral student in biological…...
Marine flyways are the missing map we can use to boost seabird conservation (commentary)
2+ week, 7+ hour ago (553+ words) For decades, we have celebrated the great migrations of land birds like cranes sweeping across continents and swallows stitching hemispheres together, but far offshore, another story has been unfolding, largely unnoticed. Seabirds have been navigating vast, predictable highways across the…...
Half of seabirds are declining. Protecting marine flyways could help save them
4+ day, 20+ min ago (396+ words) Animals that cross borders often encounter conservation systems that stop at them. Migratory species move through jurisdictions with little regard for political boundaries, relying on habitats spread across large distances and governed by different rules. The result is patchy protection,…...
AI-centered conservation efforts can only be ethical if Indigenous people help lead them (commentary)
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (546+ words) At COP30, attendees claimed that AI has enormous potential to effectively advance environmental data science to address some of our biggest challenges, including rising pollution, drastic biodiversity loss, worsening natural disasters, and more. At the same time, experts and Indigenous communities…...
Mongabay shark meat expos" wins national journalism education award in Brazil
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (244+ words) A Mongabay expos" that revealed widespread Brazilian government procurements of shark meat to serve in thousands of schools, hospitals, prisons and other public institutions has won first place in the higher education category of Brazil's National Association of Directors of…...
Climate change drives uneven shifts in tree diversity across Amazon and Andes
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1352+ words) The tropical forests of the Amazon and Andes are some of the most biodiverse places on the planet, but across both regions, changes in climate and landscape conditions are driving a shift in the number of tree species, recent research…...
Urban forests in Niger's schoolyards serve climate resilience and education
10+ mon, 2+ week ago (917+ words) An unusual subject has found its way into the curriculum of schools in Niger: trees. As municipal authorities across the Sahel country work to adapt to extreme heat and other effects of climate change, the value of urban forestry has…...
When abandoned conservation projects are counted as progress, what are we protecting? (commentary)
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (619+ words) COP30 has come and gone, leaving behind a familiar mix of new commitments and renewed political promises. But amid the declarations of progress, one issue that received almost backhanded attention is the quiet abandonment of conservation projects after their high-profile launches....
Precision conservation: the rise of place-specific strategies where protection works best
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1235+ words) At its core, the argument is pragmatic. Conservation operates in heterogeneous systems, where the same intervention can succeed in one place and fail in another. As Spake and colleagues note, implementation outcomes vary across landscapes due to complex ecological and…...