Biodiversity impacts of the 2019–2020 Australian megafires Data collected from more than 2,000 taxa provide an unparalleled opportunity to quantify how extreme wildfires affect biodiversity, revealing that the largest effects on plants and animals were in areas with frequent or recent past fires and...
CONSERVATION OF PLANTS AND ANIMALS. Our first prime minister JAWARLAL NEHRU said “life would be very dull and colourless if..
An obvious concern follows regarding the usefulness of such calculations as a basis for assessing the loss of species. Any absolute estimate of species extinctions must beextrapolatedfrom the 100,000 well-known species of living plants and animals, to the roughly 1.5 million described species, to ...
In this study, we focus on threatened flora in Spain to analyze the role of various drivers of herbivory in the process by which plants become endangered, attempting to identify patterns in the drivers and threats. Thus, using Hurdle negative binomial regression models, we first test whether her...
CONSERVATION OF ANTARCTIC ANIMALS AND PLANTSdoi:CFR 2021 TITLE45 VOL4 CHAPTER VI PART 670
The interplay between different uses of woody plants remains underexplored, obscuring our understanding of how a plant’s value for one purpose might shield it from other, more harmful uses. This study examines the protection hypothesis by determining if
Reports of illegal trafficking in elephant ivory or rhino horn abound, but plants are actually more frequent victims of the illicit trade than wildlife. In fact, roughly 30,000 of the… Peru’s Brazil nut harvesters learn to monitor forests with drones ...
The community of Cordova, Alaska, has implemented a microgrid powered by renewable energy sources, coupled with a satellite-based communication system. This has allowed them to maintain communication and power during severe storms that have crippled other coastal communities. This demonstrates the effect...
In war and conflict zones, the jamming of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNNS) signals by military forces disrupts the tracking of tagged animals, and has increased in frequency following the recent escalation of conflicts in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. Such disruption to data collectio...
For the immediate future of 300 – 400 years, we must advocate for the “Best” for nature. Saving Half for Nature will be important as rebuilding begins. I hope that saving the “Best” is a practical goal. Instead of plants and animals, there may be masses of people jammed into cool...