Tag Archives: conservation

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Beyond baby pandas – What zoos do for conservation

Captive breeding programs increase the population size and genetic diversity of endangered species such as the giant panda, but zoo conservation efforts extend much further than that.

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7 drawbacks to trophy hunting as conservation

Trophy hunters, African governments, and even some scientists support widespread trophy hunting as a form of conservation. However, the use of trophy hunting as a conservation tool has some major drawbacks.

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Saving the California condor with citizen science

Conservationists and researchers are relying on crowdsourcing and citizen science to detect odd behavior indicative of lead poisoning in the recovering population of wild California condors.

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What does it mean to Conserve?

Find out what is going right in the world of conservation, and how you can make a real, measurable difference when things aren’t.