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ORONO — University of Maine researchers are encouraging people to get outside and help document one of nature’s great migrations this spring. Maine Big Night, a community science nonprofit founded by UMaine doctorate candidate Greg LeClair calls on Mainers to brave the dark and muck to find frogs and salamanders that are on the move, […]
Advocates are petitioning the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to save the smallest rabbit species in North America, the pygmy rabbit. Its habitat, the so-called Sagebrush Sea of the Intermountain West, stretches from Oregon to Wyoming. ...
The Biden administration is now taking public comments on a proposal to grant the California Spotted Owl protection under the Endangered Species Act. The move is a reversal of the Trump administration's 2020 decision to deny the brown-and-white bird further protections, even though its population has been on the decline for decades. Pamela Flick, California program director for Defenders of Wildlife, noted the proposed listing stems from the settlement of a yearslong lawsuit lawsuit by conservation groups. ...
Wildlife crossings save lives, both human and animal, by allowing migrating species to avoid oncoming traffic and move over or under roads and freeways instead. Now a coalition of scientists, nonprofits and government agencies are highlighting their potential to help us adapt to climate change. The partnership has just published an open letter, calling on policymakers to prioritize climate resilience as roads and bridges are built or repaired using the funds from the 2021 infrastructure bill. ...
Researchers are studying the feeding habits of Arctic charr to help predict how other fish species could adapt to a warming climate. Arctic charr are considered glacial relics, once filling some of the deepest, coldest ponds of New England, but today, populate just a dozen lakes throughout Maine. Michael Kinnison, director of the Maine Center for Genetics and the Environment at the University of Maine, calls the Arctic charr a "canary in the coal mine" for climate-change resilience. ...