Ecologists Have this Simple Request to Homeowners — Plant Native A new study shows how quickly songbird populations fall off when gardens are planted with exotic trees and shrubs By …
Tigres, rhinocéros : la décision chinoise qui choque La Chine vient d’annoncer qu’elle autorisait de nouveau le commerce de produits issus de tigres et de rhinocéros, des espèces en danger. …
China Reverses Its Ban on the Use of Rhino and Tiger Parts in Medicine Conservationists worry that the decision will further imperil threatened species By Brigit Katz smithsonian.com In a …
Extreme Botany: The Precarious Science of Endangered Rare Plants They don’t make the headlines the way charismatic animals such as rhinos and elephants do. But there are thousands of critically …
A Brazilian rainforest is now being called an ‘extinction vortex’ An example of recent Atlantic Forest fragmentation. (Photo: SPOT Satellite/Wiki Commons) It’s sometimes a challenge for scientists to articulate …
Wildlife corridor is a road to survival for animals in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest Photo: Eric Gevaert/Shutterstock Noel Kirkpatrick Brazil’s Atlantic Forest once covered around 330 million acres, a swath of …
The Metamorphoses of the Atlantic Forest Survey of 2,000 species shows a predominance of small animals and resistance to forest fragmentation The cougar, which has adapted to large and small …
Tracing Alfred Russel Wallace’s Footsteps Through the Jungles of Borneo A biologist treks to the site where the little-known naturalist penned a paper on evolution that would spur on a …
Plan Bee: The Rise of Alternative Pollinators Honeybees are under siege, straining the business of farming. Now growers are turning to other bee species to help their crops. Heidi …
Butterfly Effect: Monarchs Raised and Released by Prisoners Solves Mystery of Migration Patterns By Jessica Wapner On 7/12/18 at 11:49 AM Floris van Breugel/Nature Picture Library In what may be …