Research Briefs | Feb 10, 2010 Scientists have examined how well our planet's biodiversity and carbon stocks overlap. The findings from their study could have major implications for the future of global conservation work...
Field News | Jan 28, 2010 In a recent article in the journal Environmental Management, conservation biologist George Wilhere argues that the Endangered Species Act and its provision for habitat conservation plans are hampered by three main paradoxes: the Train Wreck Paradox, the Jeopardy Paradox, and the Maximum Mitigation Paradox. We interview George Wilhere and ask him how we can fix the problem...
Field News | Jan 26, 2010 When the staff of the Point Reyes National Seashore in California started reflecting on how to deal with the proliferating non-native deer in the park, it knew it was tackling a sensitive issue. It was concerned about the exotic deer damaging soils and vegetation, competing for food with native tule elk and black-tailed deer, and contaminating them with fatal disease. Yet visitors had grown fond of those endearing park fixtures...
Research Briefs | Sep 22, 2009 
Does graduate school adequately prepare students for work as conservation practitioners? A new study tries to answer that question...read more
Research Briefs | Sep 15, 2009 
Mitigation banks have emerged as a preferred alternative for complying with the Clean Water Act's stated goal of no net loss' of wetlands. But are they working?
Field News | Aug 14, 2009 The Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit yesterday to reinstate federal endangered species protection for the Sacramento splittail, an imperiled fish found in California’s Central Valley and San Francisco Bay-Delta. The fish rose to fame in 2003 in helping to bring down the last shreds of credibility of the Bush Administration on conservation issues...read more
Field News | Aug 5, 2009 The ESA Annual Meeting has entered it's 3rd full day of activities. One event that really catches my eye is a symposium on managed relocation, a contraversial technique for conserving species in the face of climate change...read more
