Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Scientific monitoring of Tigers gets a boost in India

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WCS/CWS India under the leadership of Dr Ullas Karanth has been developing new monitoring methodologies for tigers and prey species for o...
Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Comprehensive landscape assessments of protected area networks

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Dynamic performance assessment of protected areas Christopher P. Barbera, Mark A. Cochranea, b, , Carlos Souza Jr.b, , Adalberto Veríss...
Sunday, April 15, 2012

Estimating the population of Emperor penguins using a single synoptic survey

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In this piece of path breaking research, the researchers attempted to estimate the population of emperor penguins ( Aptenodytes fosteri )...
Saturday, April 14, 2012

Opportunity to work in Periyar Tiger Reserve

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Young wildlife biologists, here is an opportunity for you to hone your skills in Periyar Tiger Reserve, India’s finest Tiger reserve. Per...
Thursday, April 12, 2012

Rare image of a lynx using a highway wildlife-overpass in Banff National Park, Canada

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                                                            Photo courtesy: Highwaywilding.org Here is a very rare image of a Canada...

Assessing age from colour of coats – A case study involving Thornicroft's giraffes

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Here is an interesting piece of research done on giraffes . Prof Fred Bercovitch from the Primate Research Institute and Wildlife Resear...
Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Vehicular traffic and the use of highway edges by large mammals – Urgent need for holistic EIA

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Impact of vehicular traffic on the use of highway edges by large mammals in a South Indian wildlife reserve Sanjay Gubbi, H. C. Poornes...
Monday, April 09, 2012

Book Recommendation

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The other day Girish from Karnataka, one of the regular readers of this blog, wanted a recommendation of a book on Population Genetics...
Saturday, April 07, 2012

The Diversity of Sacred Lands in Europe – IUCN WCPA news release

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‘The Diversity of Sacred Lands in Europe’, provides a unique insight into Europe’s often forgotten sacred natural sites. It looks into ...
Wednesday, April 04, 2012

Taking into account uncertainties should be a mandatory aspect to include in the viability analysis of populations

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Disentangling effects of uncertainties on population projections: climate change impact on an epixylic bryophyte Alejandro Ruete , Wei ...
Tuesday, April 03, 2012

Herbicide may Induce Morphological Changes in Vertebrate Animals

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Dr Rick Relyea, University of Pittsburgh professor of biological sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences and di...
Monday, April 02, 2012

The Wild Life of Our Bodies

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Here is an interesting book that I finished reading yesterday, Rob Dunn’s book, The Wild Life of Our Bodies . Dunn is a biology...
Saturday, March 31, 2012

Here is a paradox - Norway is investing more than 13 billion dollars in dozens of companies linked to deforestation

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Norway is pumping in hundreds of millions of dollars a year to protect rainforests. A great gesture by all means, but here comes the pa...
Friday, March 30, 2012

The importance of frugivorous birds in human-impacted landscapes

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Species richness matters for the quality of ecosystem services: a test using seed dispersal by frugivorous birds Daniel García and Dani...
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Petition to Ban horrific Hare Coursing Cruelty in Ireland

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Live Hare Coursing is a horrific form of animal cruelty. Majority of Irish people want it outlawed. In this sport hares are set up as bai...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012

General connectivity improvement and clearly localised connectivity improvement can be efficient compensation measures for area loss

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Trading connectivity improvement for area loss in patch-based biodiversity reserve networks Thomas Dalang and Anna M. Hersperger Bi...
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

A video from EIA and Telepak

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This video from the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telepak documents forest depredation in Indonesian Borneo, and its imp...

Sacred natural sites of the world - IUCN WCPA news release

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A new initiative to protect the sacred natural sites of the world 26 March 2012 | Article Sacred Natural Sites are areas of rich an...
Monday, March 26, 2012

Resolving challenges to interdisciplinary research should be context specific

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New Page 1 Challenges to Interdisciplinary Research in Ecosystem-Based Management LEILA SIEVANEN , LISA M. CAMPBELL, HEATHER M...
Sunday, March 25, 2012

What is a sacred natural site?

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"What is a sacred natural site and what does it mean to you?" This video is couple of months old. It was my discussion wi...