Wildlife Conservation and Protection
phys.org
> The extinction of hundreds of bird species caused by humans over the last 130,000 years has led to substantial reductions in avian functional diversity—a measure of the range of different roles and functions that birds undertake within the environment—and resulted in the loss of approximately 3 billion years of unique evolutionary history, according to a new study published in Science.
A video discussing the tension and trade offs between conventional rewilding and guerrilla rewilding.
www.huffpost.com
> The Biden administration asked an appeals court to revive a Trump-era rule that lifted remaining Endangered Species Act protections for gray wolves in the U.S.
phys.org
> All on its own, an endangered species is making a fierce comeback in California, newly published state wildlife data show.
seaturtles.org
> When the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) allowed the sablefish fishery to expand into designated critical habitat for leatherback sea turtles, Turtle Island and Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) went into action and filed a federal lawsuit challenging the opening of nearly 2,000 square miles of leatherback sea turtle critical habitat to sablefish pot fishing.
phys.org
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/13080829 >> What do windows, vehicles, power lines, fences, communication towers, wind turbines, and airfields all have in common? They block the flight path of raptors—sometimes with fatal consequences.
www.resilience.org
www.theguardian.com
>Experts said the problem was caused by historic floods last year that inundated Thessaly plane farther north. The floods refilled a nearby lake that had been drained in 1962 in a bid to fight malaria, swelling it to three times its normal size. > >Since then the lake waters have receded drastically, forcing the freshwater fish toward the Volos port that empties into the Pagasetic Gulf and the Aegean Sea, where they cannot survive. > >Note: I'm not sure I understand the reason why this happened or how the net would have >A net was not placed at the mouth of the river leading into Volos, the experts said. When the fish met the sea, the saltwater likely killed them. Note: I'm not too sure how the suggested net would have protected the fish. Wouldn't they be caught in it and crashed by other fish?
[Archived link](https://archive.ph/lkoF1) of the article
