The Forest Service Gets a Slap on Their Prairie Dog Killing Plan

The Forest Service Gets a Slap on Their Prairie Dog Killing Plan

On the Thunder Basin National Grassland of northeastern Wyoming, the livestock industry has been pursuing an aggressive campaign to expand poisoning and shooting of prairie dogs. And in 2020, the Forest Service gave them a plan amendment that radically expanded prairie dog killing, and eliminated a special designation of a Black-footed Ferret Reintroduction Area to […]

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International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

International panel launches guidelines for ‘high integrity’ biodiversity credits

At the United Nations biodiversity conference currently underway in Colombia, an international panel has published a framework with guidelines to scale up “biodiversity credits,” an emerging financial mechanism to tackle the global loss of nature. Biodiversity credits are meant to be a way for companies to invest in projects that protect or restore nature, earning […]

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High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

High-flying life of Australia’s birds revealed in new detail – thanks to weather radars

The yearly travel plans of birds up and down Australia‘s east coast have been revealed for the first time, using the same tool that tracks the weather – a development experts say could have “profound” implications for conservation as more windfarms are built. Scientists have used weather radars to show that bird migration across eastern […]

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