Just a few swabs from a handful of leaves can say a lot about what animals are roaming in the area. Two dozen leaf swabs from plants in Uganda’s Kibale National Park revealed a stunningly accurate ...

A new study published online today, April 25, in the scientific journal Science provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling conservation ...

The field of biodiversity monitoring using remote sensing techniques has advanced rapidly in recent years, propelled by the need for timely, scalable and cost-effective tools to track species, ...

Fifteen years ago, Yale scientists launched a digital platform called “Map of Life,” an initiative to monitor changes in global species populations and support practitioners with robust conservation ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A new study published in Science reveals that conservation works, with conservation actions improving or slowing the decline of biodiversity in two ...

Plant conservation strategies encompass a spectrum of approaches designed to safeguard threatened species and preserve biodiversity at genetic, species and ecosystem levels. In situ conservation ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. New technologies—from environmental DNA to AI-powered sensors—are generating vast amounts of biodiversity data, creating unprecedented ...

Natalia Ocampo-Peñuela, assistant professor of environmental studies, and a team of Colombian researchers have introduced a transformative approach to mapping bird species distribution across Colombia ...

Through the federal Building Canada Act, “projects of national interest” are being fast-tracked while hundreds of major resource projects are already under construction or planned in the next decade.

Vora is a practicing physician, senior adviser for One Health at Conservation International, and executive director of the Preventing Pandemics at the Source Coalition. Walzer is a wildlife ...

A recent study published in Ecological Applications examines how certain bird species are coping on 44 privately-owned agricultural sites throughout the state of Iowa. The team used new techniques, ...

Ecologists have devised a new framework to classify how biodiversity credit operators define what a unit of nature is. The new analysis demonstrates the challenges involved with devising a ...