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“#Farewell smooth handfish: What can we learn from the world’s first marine fish extinction?” Credit: John Turnbull/Flickr Earlier this month, a group of Australian scientists confirmed a depressing landmark for our blue planet: The first marine fish of modern times has been declared extinct on the IUCN RedList. The smooth handfish (Sympterichthys unipennis) was one…
“#Botswana reports mysterious deaths of hundreds of elephants” Botswana is home to some 130,000 elephants Hundreds of elephants have died mysteriously in Botswana’s famed Okavango Delta, the head of the wildlife department said Thursday, ruling out poaching as the tusks were found intact. The landlocked southern African country has the world’s largest elephant population, estimated…
“#Learn from the pandemic to prevent environmental catastrophe, scientists argue” Credit: CC0 Public Domain The dynamics of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic share “striking similarities” with the twin environmental crises of global heating and species extinction, argue a team of scientists and policy experts from the UK and US. They say that lessons learned the hard way…
“#Treatments tested for invasive pest on allium crops” An adult Allium leafminer. Credit: Riley Harding Native to Europe but discovered in Pennsylvania in 2015, the Allium leafminer is a fly whose larvae feed on crops in the Allium genus, including onions, garlic and leeks. Since its arrival in the U.S., it has spread to New…
“#How to bring conservation messaging into wildlife-based tourism” Tourists watching lemurs in Madagascar. In Madagascar, tourism already generates a net conservation gain for at least 13 lemur species. Credit: Joan De La Malla The study states that failing to encourage tourists to do more on behalf of wildlife represents a missed opportunity for conservation. “We…
“#Underwater cameras reveal biodiversity hotspot in tropical marine park” Credit: University of Western Australia Researchers from The University of Western Australia have found an area of tropical ocean protected under law is a hotspot for iconic marine life but does not provide enough defence from human activities. While the Oceanic Shoals Marine Park was found…
“#As wildfires flare up across West, research highlights risk of ecological change” Professor Jonathan Coop said he’s seen an incredible amount of forest lost in the Jemez Mountains where he grew up. Credit: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University One of Jonathan Coop’s first vivid memories as a child was watching the flames of the 1977…
“#New fiddlehead study warns against overharvesting ” Credit: David Fuller Fiddleheads, a traditional springtime delicacy in New England and Eastern Canada, can decline significantly over time if harvesters pluck too many from the same plants in a season, according to a new four-year study conducted by a University of Maine Cooperative Extension expert. Fern crowns with…
“#Ecologists detect warning signals of malaria outbreak” Ecology professor John Drake discusses research with then-Honors undergraduate student Mallory Harris, who is lead author on this malaria study, along with student Aditya Krisnaswamy. Credit: Andrew Davis Tucker/UGA taken in 2017 Researchers at the University of Georgia have demonstrated that disease surveillance data can be used to…
“#Checklist of Pa. bees documents 49 new species and some that may be endangered” A cuckoo bee, a native member of the Apidae family, visits a flower for nectar on Mt. Nittany in Centre County. Credit: Shelby Kerrin Kilpatrick A study documenting bees that are reported to occur in Pennsylvania has found the presence of 437…