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Meanwhile, human beings have also been working to counteract the effects of their development and growth as well as man-made climate change. Measures like the U.S. Endangered Species Act, habitat-protecting nature reserves and hunting prohibitions are all designed to slow the rate of extinction and preserve dwindling species...
It's not hard to understand Traill's logic - the smaller a species population becomes, the more vulnerable it is to extinction. Not only are small, dispersed populations more easily wiped out, but also they are more susceptible to inbreeding, which leads to a decrease in genetic diversity and further...
Increasing species numbers, however, may not be possible. The main hurdle, not surprisingly, is politics. The needs of a real conservation effort may require a level of animal protection beyond what is politically possible. That puts conservationists in a bind. Do they push for the tighter levels of protection that...
The digitization work, which will be funded by the NLC but conducted by Harvard librarians, will also allow all of the items in the collection to be examined for damage and treated for conservation if necessary. Harvard and NLC representatives declined to disclose the project’s exact price...
Others, including those close to him, wonder privately if fighting climate change is less a conviction for Arias than a vehicle back to the international accolades he enjoyed a quarter century ago. They point out that his conservation kick was greatly influenced by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore's...