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Birds of Vellayani captured in a book

Edit The Hindu 16 May 2016
Named ‘Feathers of Vellayani,’ the register is part of an attempt launched by the KSBB to take up the conservation of the Vellayani lake as a biodiversity heritage site ... Printed in colour, the register has devoted one page each to describe a species with its picture, physical features, sound, preferred habitat, feeding, nesting and breeding habits, conservation status and scientific and vernacular names....

More evidence: Solar farms can increase biodiversity

Edit Treehugger 13 May 2016
Any time I write about solar farms promoting increased biodiversity, somebody somewhere will call BS ... Encouragingly, the study found that solar farms were particularly beneficial for rare and threatened bird species.. "When weighting bird species according to their conservation status, solar farms scored significantly higher. in terms of bird diversity and abundance, indicating their importance for declining bird species. The decline ... ....

A Walrus Has Been Born In A Canadian Aquarium For The First Time

Edit IFL Science 12 May 2016
Aquarium du Québec has just been part of a nearly unheard of event. the birth of a walrus in captivity ... In a Facebook post, the aquarium said. “The delivery went naturally without any human intervention,” although veterinarians monitored the behavior by using video cameras ... The IUNC Red List say there is an insufficient amount of data on walruses to determine their conservation status ... [H/T. Motherboard] ....

Migratory Birds and Their Habitats in the Western Hemisphere Get $4 Million Boost (US Fish and Wildlife Service)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
Migratory birds throughout the Western Hemisphere will benefit from $4 million in grants for 32 collaborative conservation projects across the Americas, the U.S ... The Neotropical Migratory Bird Conservation Act grants will leverage the Service's investment with $16.9 million in additional partner funds-a more than four-to-one match ... Ensuring Conservation Status for the Last Unprotected Forests in Caribbean Guatemala.....

Zoo Knoxville Announces Birth of Critically Endangered Red Wolf (City of Knoxville, TN)

Edit Public Technologies 10 May 2016
They are classified as Critically Endangered by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, which is widely recognized as the most comprehensive, objective global approach for evaluating the conservation status of plant and animal species ... Zoo Knoxville features exhibits of wild animals in natural habitats and is world renowned for its efforts in conservation and species survival....

Transcending myths about the 'real' Bhagat Singh

Edit Deccan Herald 08 May 2016
Bhagat Singh lived many lives. One was his actual lived life, which was cut short by the British government in 1931 when he was only 23. The remaining lives of Bhagat Singh were constructed by others, interested in reaping a rich political harvest. He became a convenient icon for various political parties ... Understanding terrorism ... Right wingers the world over, tend to be conservative and status quoist, mortally afraid of a radical change....

Funding for Scottish-backed rare cat conservation effort

Edit BBC News 06 May 2016
A project aimed at improving the conservation status of one of the world's rarest and least known wild cats has secured key funding ... They are classed as "near-threatened", according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources....

Survey Results in China Reveal Strong Public Support for Pangolin Protection (Humane Society International)

Edit Public Technologies 06 May 2016
Aita and HSI released the poll on the Chinese public's attitude toward pangolin consumption and conservation status in a joint public forum in Beijing on Thursday ... The survey found that some of the reasons behind pangolin consumption include treating business guests and showing status, in addition to popularly-held beliefs stemming from commercial promotion alleging pangolins' tonic or medicinal properties....

Key funding for rare cat conservation

Edit BBC News 06 May 2016
A project aimed at improving the conservation status of one of the world's rarest and least known wild cats secures key funding ... ....

Rare skink appears to be making a comeback

Edit NZ Herald 03 May 2016
Searchers looking just north of Hokitika for one of the rarest vertebrate animals in the country have struck gold.The Chesterfield skink was identified only 20 years ago and has a conservation status of "nationally critical", indicating... ....

Malta should consider moratorium on turtle dove hunting, says EU

Edit The Guardian 03 May 2016
The International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) put turtledoves on its Red List of species threatened with extinction for the first time last October ... The conservation agency said it broke the birds directive’s rules which forbid hunting species that have an “unfavourable conservation status” or “very low population levels”. The letter said ... “What brings us back? Turtle doves ... this is a species very rapidly disappearing.” ... ....

Zoo seeks proposals for Northwest conservation grants

Edit The Examiner 02 May 2016
The Oregon Zoo is now accepting applications for its 2016 Future for Wildlife grants in support of animal conservation and wildlife welfare programs in the Pacific Northwest ... Nadja Wielebnowski, the zoo’s conservation and research manager ... $5,000 to assess the conservation status of the Olympic mudminnow — the only known freshwater fish endemic to Washington....

230 million-year-old dinosaur footprint found in north Spain

Edit The Miami Herald 02 May 2016
The statement said the "conservation status is exceptional and retains details of claws and skin." ....
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