2019’s Conservation Success Stories by IUCN
Monday, December 23rd, 2019. “A year of incredible species action” raves the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.…
Category: Conservation
Three Examples of Birds Coming Back From the Brink
PICTURED: the state bird of Hawaii, the Hawaiian Goose (Branta canadensis). Photo credit Bettina Arrigioni. CC 2.0. December 12th,…
Once Numbering Less Than 400, Majestic Bukhara Deer Return To The Wilds Of Kazakhstan
PICTURED: A Bukhara deer stag (cervus elaphus bactrianus) at the Cologne Zoo. Photo credit Sarefo. CC 2.0. Kazakhstan, September…
Lost to Science For 30 Years, Team Captures 200 Images of This Tiny Vietnamese Deer
In the digital age of globalization, Google, and infinite access to information, it might pass someone by that there’s…
Fishermen Working To Achieve IUCN Green List Standards See The Seal Population Recover Off Lima Coast
LIMA, Peru. November, 2019. Lima Peru is the site of a remarkable revival of marine wildlife. Off the coast…
Interior Department Directs $100 Million For Public-Private Wetlands/Waterfowl Conservation
PICTURED: The Snake Wild and Scenic River, Idaho. The Upper Snake is one of the largest beneficiaries of this…
Madagascar’s Indigenous Communities Are Taking Initiative To Save Endangered Lemurs And Prevent Deforestation
PICTURED: The silky sifaka in Marojejy National Park, Madagascar. Photo credit, Jeff Gibbs, taken from Wikimedia. The South-west of…
Partnering With Indigenous Communities, Conservationists Can Protect Wildlife While Preserving Tribal Tradition
PICTURED: The Lion Guardians of Ruaha from left to right, Gwagi, Darem, Stephano (coordinator), Ema, Mandela, and Daudi. Photo…
IUCN Red List Passes 100,000 Species Assessed
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List has broken through the 100,000 species barrier; it…
Cooperation Or Conflict: How To Save Biodiversity In The Tropics
Tremendous sacrifices have been made in the quest to feed the people of the world, much of it fronted…
Operation Thunderball Saves More Trafficked Wildlife Than Any To Come Before
Operation Thunderball – no it isn’t a convoluted scheme by a villain in a James Bond film, but rather…
American Prairie Reserve: Stitching The Great Plains Back Together Again
Two Crow Ranch, located 30 miles north of Winnett, Montana, and comprised of 5,002 acres of private land and…
‘Extinct’ Clouded Leopard Sighted In Southeast Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan. February 23rd, 2019. In 2013 a research team consisting of experts from the U.S. and Taiwan concluded…
Since 2011, Elephant Poaching Has Fallen Dramatically
According to a new paper published in Science, the numbers of elephants killed illegally in Africa dropped from 10%…
How Conservationists Take Advantage Of Public Perception To Save More Than Just Tigers And Pandas
We live in the Anthropocene, the era of humans. Unsurprisingly, most public dollars go towards the benefit and advancement…
The Fifth Oldest Tree In The World Was Discovered In US, But It’s Not A Sequoia
Bladen, North Carolina, 2017. In a stand of bald cypress trees on a North Carolina nature conservancy, scientists discovered…
California Condors May Find New Home For Release In Pacific Northwest
The US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is planning to introduce a small group of California condors into the…