Pandas are endangered mainly due to habitat loss. Humans have cleared much of the bamboo forests that pandas need to survive. Because pandas eat only bamboo, they cannot adapt to live outside of those forests the way other animals do, unless the pandas are provided with bamboo. Are pandas u...
Black rhinos are doing a bit better, though they are still on the brink. In the 1960s, there were estimated to be around 100,000 of them living primarily in southern Africa. However, they experienced an alarming 80% decline in the 70s and 80s. By the early 90s, their numbers reached ...
The common sense truths of Nature are eternal. Case in point. If I said to you that it would be best for lions if tigers were brought in and placed among them, that we would have strength from diversity, you would probably think me crazy. Of course tigers and lions should live in ...
LEVITT: I think it’s even more important than the way you laid it out, because in the example you gave, the students are told what the point is. The point is I have 12, I want to distribute fairly. It’s not easy, often, in the real world to define your problem. You’re face...
“My assumption was that only extreme or absolute poverty, or desperate situations, would drive people to poach. I had no idea that subjective measures of poverty were equally important,” Eli Knapp, lead author of the study and assistant professor at Houghton College in New York, told Mongabay...
we are set to lose some of the most important species in the ecosystem, which, in turn, will result in severe ecological imbalance and bring about the downfall of all the plants and animals related to that particular species. More importantly, we need to understand that we are a part of ...