Pages tagged with “wildlife”

• Risk of Extinction for the World’s Reptiles

  A study has been carried out estimating, for the first time, the global extinction risk of reptiles by using a short-cut method by sampling 1,500 species (16% of all known reptile species). This study included lizards, snakes, turtles/ tortoises, amphisbaenians (“worm lizards”) and crocodiles.   While, overall reptiles are less threatened than amphibians (the most highly threatened group), they are…

• Why Conservation?

  By Quinton Paul Josop My name is Quinton Paul Josop.  I'm currently in my second year studying advanced nature guiding and conservation in northern KwaZulu-Natal in South Africa. I have a keen interest in the natural world, especially birds, trees, mammals, insects, flowers and the marine environment. I'm also inspired by people that promote conservation and see why it is…

• Capturing Photos, Hearts and Minds in Haiti

  By Robin Moore  The Co-Founder and Creative Director of Frame of Mind, as well as a powerful voice in amphibian conservation and a skilled wildlife photographer. Few places reflect the mirrored fortunes of the environment and people as poignantly as Haiti, where thin topsoil washes into the ocean in dirty red plumes from hillsides once cloaked in verdant forest. But…

• Conservation Evidence Group: Amphibian Synopsis

  Synchronicity Earth is funding the Conservation Evidence Group, based at Cambridge University, to develop a synopsis for Amphibian conservation evidence. The group works on the premise that conservation practitioners largely base their activities on their own experience and of others nearby and rarely access published literature.

• Habitat Loss

  Coastal habitats – including coral reefs, seagrass beds, and mangroves – are home to 90% of known marine wildlife. They also provide us with the majority of fish catches and play vital roles as buffers against storms and sea level rise, and as stores of carbon.

• EDGE Species

  The EDGE of Existence programme was developed in 2007 by scientists at the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) to highlight species that are Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered.

• Species

  ‘If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering’. Aldo Leopold, Round River, 1953 A large proportion of research and financial support for conservation is directed towards ‘charismatic’ species.…

• Pollution

  Although they make up over 70% of the planet’s surface, there is no part of the oceans that is untouched by humans in some form. One of the most visible effects of this anthropogenic domination is pollution. This can take many forms; for example, agricultural fertilisers travel down rivers and spill out into estuaries, along with sediment and chemical waste.…