Earth Focus
| Apr 5, 2013
Is it possible to rehabilitate large-scale damaged ecosystems, improve the lives of people trapped in poverty, and sequester carbon naturally? John D. Liu has proven that it is. His film, "Hope in a Changing Climate," showcases approaches that hav...
Earth Focus
| Mar 8, 2013
Gray wolves once ranged across North America. But by the 1930s, they were nearly extinct -- trapped, poisoned and hunted by ranchers, farmers, and government agents. With protection under the 1973 Endangered Species Act, the wolf population reboun...
International Business Times
| Nov 29, 2012
Cameras set up in Indonesia's still largely unexplored Sembilang National Park captured an extremely welcome sight for conservationists. A female Sumatran tiger padded through the rainforest, followed by her two young cubs, showing that the critic...
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Miranda Smith
| May 3, 2011
Deep in the jungles of Suriname, Dr. Mark Plotkin is racing against time. Here in the vast canopy of trees is a treasure of unknown dimension--the chemically rich and diverse plant life of the forest--the secrets of which could one day yield cures...
Earth Focus
| Jan 20, 2012
This Earth Focus report sheds light on the struggle of the Tsilhqot'in and Xeni Gwet'in people of British Columbia, Canada to stop the construction of Prosperity Mine, a gold and copper mine proposed by Taseko Mines Ltd. The mine would destroy Fis...
Al Jazeera English
| Oct 3, 2011
Rainforest activist Jose Claudio Ribeiro da Silva and his wife Maria were murdered in May, 2011. The killing was an apparent revenge attack after the couple repeatedly reported illegal logging and ranching. Al Jazeera's Gabriel Elizondo ...
VOA News
| Sep 28, 2011
Kenyans are in mourning following the recent death of Nobel Prize-winning environmentalist Wangari Maathai. Some shared their thoughts with VOA correspondent Gabe Joselow at a park in Nairobi that Maathai famously fought to defend.
— May 9 at 11:48 pm
...never given up the conservation culture and has done its utmost to protect the giant panda. In March 1987, it set up the Chengdu Research Base o...
— May 3, 2011 at 02:08 pm
...show a potential win-win situation for the Pantanal and Cerrado's ranches and wildlife," said the study's lead author, Donald Parsons Eaton of t...
Conservation biology is the scientific study of the nature and status of Earth's biodiversity with the aim of protecting species, their habitats, and ecosystems from excessive rates of extinction and the erosion of biotic interactions. It is an interdisciplinary subject drawing on sciences, economics, and the practice of natural resource management.
The conservation ethic is based on the findings of conservation biology.
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