Kenya, one of the world’s most popular and exotic wildlife ecosystems, has all but been decimated by loss of forest cover in recent history, severely threatening the health of the land, its people and once powerfully robust wildlife.
To address the country’s massive losses in forest cover, Kenyan communities will plant 7.6 billion trees over the [...]
Honey, Someone Shrunk the Sheep!
Sheep on Soay Island off the west coast of Scotland are getting smaller, defying the evolutionary advantage that typically accrues to larger animals when food becomes scarce during cold weather. Increasingly warmer winters have shortened the season of scarcity, enabling smaller sheep to survive — and give birth to more small [...]
Human-induced environmental change causes significant increases in emerging infectious diseases in both wildlife and human population, says Wildlife Trust conservation scientist Dr. Alonso Aguirre as published in the New York Academy of Sciences journal.
The driving factors of environmental change include deforestation, urban sprawl, transportation infrastructures, climate change, and the control of water resources for dams, [...]
National Environmental Education Week: April 12-18
Now in its fifth year, Environmental Education Week’s 2009 theme, Be Water Wise!, will be celebrated with K-12 activities across the country. EE Week is the largest organized environmental education event in the United States.
EE Week builds upon the educational impact of Earth Day by creating a full week of [...]
A new Wildlife Phenology Program will enlist professional and citizen scientists across the country to monitor and record seasonal wildlife events to help managers understand and respond to climatic and other environmental changes.
The Wildlife Society (TWS) and the USA National Phenology Network (USA-NPN) announced the program as the second phase in the USA-NPN’s monitoring efforts; [...]
