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Energy companies buy protections from the conservation bank for the areas known as “strongholds,” while conducting certain conservation practices on lands amid their operations, and in exchange are exempted from future restrictions should the species ultimately be listed.
According to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), carbon storage capacity in forests all around the world is only 88% of its potential. The study aims to assist in prioritizing areas for boosting reserves.
Researchers use geospatial imagery to assess global carbon stocks and better target climate change mitigation efforts.
Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout the American West, thriving on the prairie lands of eastern New Mexico and the American West. But in recent years, the chicken's numbers declined amid growing development in the oil and gas and agriculture sectors throughout the region and conservationists worried the unique bird could be in danger of extinction.
CARLSBAD, N.M. (AP) — Lesser prairie chickens once numbered in the thousands throughout...