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Conservation: More than half of unassessable species may be at risk of extinction

2023 Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP) Conservation Team Awards Application Deadline: 10 October 2022.

AZoCleantech speaks to Robert Cowie from the Pacific Biosciences Research Center at the University of Hawaii about his team's research on the Sixth Mass Extinction.

  I. Introduction For too long, the environmental left has pushed a narrative that undeveloped land and wildlife are disappearing. This narrative has justified programs that expand government land ownership and the regulation of natural resources. The current Administration’s “30 by 30” proposal—that 30 percent of the nation’s land be conserved by 2030 to protect biodiversity—is a good example. However, the reality regarding U.S. lands, habitat, and wildlife is encouraging, with man...

Coconut crabs are the world's largest land-dwelling arthropods. HowStuffWorks looks at these monstrous crustaceans that dwarf many other crabs and are native to the islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans.

According to a recent phylogenetic study, the genus Ceropegia is the largest genus of the family Apocynaceae (commonly known as the dogbane family

Mongabay seeks to raise interest in and appreciation of wild lands and wildlife, while examining the impact of emerging trends in climate, technology, economics,and finance on conservation and development.

Polar bears, honeybees, mango trees and coral reefs are all examples of the countless animal and insect species, plant life and ecosystems that comprise the planet's vast biodiversity. Every living organism has a role to play in an intricate web of connectedness, no matter the size, and without them, there would be no life on Earth.

Chondrichthyan species (sharks, rays, skates, and chimaeras) are a class of high ecological, economic, and cultural significance, and yet they are the most threatened taxa in the marine environment. The creation of reference chromosome-length genome assemblies allows for conservation genomics methods, such as population and ecological genomics, to be utilized. Despite being greatly threatened and of great importance in maintaining ecosystem function, chondrichthyan species have been repeatedly a...

A team of conservationists in Brazil funded by the Conservation Leadership Programme (CLP), of which WCS is a partner, has assisted in the creation and recent p