Hacker News with Generative AI: Conservation

'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns (bbc.com)
“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.”

Conservation, Extinction, Environment, Science

8 points by Brajeshwar 3 days ago | 1 comments

'The sixth great extinction is happening', conservation expert warns (bbc.com)
“We’re in the midst of the sixth great extinction,” Dr Goodall tells me during our interview for BBC Radio 4’s Inside Science. “The more we can do to restore nature and protect existing forests, the better.”

Conservation, Extinction, Climate Change, Environment

3 points by austinallegro 3 days ago | 1 comments

Penguin travels every year to visit man who rescued him (2016) (cbc.ca)

Animals, Wildlife, Human-Animal Interactions, Conservation

43 points by thunderbong 5 days ago | 12 comments

The Leningrad botanists who saved the first seed bank (theguardian.com)
During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger

History, Botany, Russia, Conservation

144 points by robaato 9 days ago | 44 comments

Islands of the Feral Pigs (hakaimagazine.com)
In Hawai‘i, people, pigs, and ecosystems only have so much room to coexist, and the pigs exist a little too much.

Wildlife, Hawaii, Environmental Issues, Conservation

46 points by PaulHoule 9 days ago | 26 comments

Listening in on the Mysterious Marbled Murrelet (hakaimagazine.com)
The marbled murrelet is an elusive creature. At sea, the stubby seabird dives at the first sign of predators. On land, it lays its eggs high in the mossy branches of the Pacific Northwest’s old-growth forests—a fact only serendipitously discovered by a utility-company employee climbing trees in the 1970s.

Nature, Birds, Conservation, Pacific Northwest, Wildlife

7 points by ohjeez 18 days ago | 0 comments

Ratting on wildlife crime: training rats to detect illegally trafficked wildlife (frontiersin.org)
The illegal wildlife trade (IWT) is one of the largest global crime economies, directly threatening species and their habitats, and biodiversity, and indirectly the global climate, and countries’ economies.

Wildlife Crime, Conservation, Animal Training, Science, Crime

33 points by pavel_lishin 19 days ago | 1 comments

Much of Ireland Is an Ecological Desert. Meet the Man Who Wants to Rewild It (nytimes.com)
Is Ireland really all that green? Ecologically speaking, the answer is no, says Eoghan Daltun, a sculptor who restored a patch of native rainforest in the Beara Peninsula, on the country’s rugged southwestern coast.

Environment, Ireland, Conservation, Rewilding

45 points by aa_is_op 23 days ago | 19 comments

Migrating birds find refuge in pop-up habitats (hcn.org)
Every July, the western sandpiper, a dun-colored, long-beaked bird, leaves the shores of Alaska and migrates south. It may fly as far as the coast of Peru, where it spends several months before making the return trip. Western sandpipers travel along the Pacific Flyway, a strip of land that stretches along the Western coast of the Americas, from the Arctic down to Patagonia.

Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, Environment

16 points by pavel_lishin 29 days ago | 1 comments

Species in Pieces (species-in-pieces.com)
30 species. 30 pieces. 1 fragmented survival.

Conservation, Biodiversity, Endangered Species

67 points by microflash 30 days ago | 7 comments

Wild animals are spiraling to extinction. Can a bunch of bureaucrats save them? (vox.com)
Starting this week, thousands of people will descend on the Colombian city of Cali for an important meeting you may have never heard of: COP16.

Conservation, Extinction, Environmental Policy, Colombia, International Meetings

93 points by rntn 31 days ago | 72 comments

Wildlife numbers plummet 73 percent over past half-century, report finds (aljazeera.com)
Wildlife populations across the globe have shrunk by more than 70 percent over the past half-century, according to the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF).

Wildlife, Conservation, Environment, Science, Report

6 points by Qem 42 days ago | 0 comments

Pine martens return to Dartmoor after 150-year absence (theguardian.com)
Fifteen pine martens are darting through the woods of Dartmoor for the first time in 150 years after the rare but recovering species was reintroduced into south-west England.

Wildlife, Conservation, England, Reintroduction

82 points by zeristor 50 days ago | 31 comments

Koalas are up power poles, on roads, in schools. Outlook for koalas remains poor (cnn.com)

Wildlife, Australia, Conservation, Environment, Climate Change

8 points by peutetre 52 days ago | 0 comments

The fight to save Chile's white strawberry (atlasobscura.com)
It’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes.

Agriculture, Chile, Food, Conservation

109 points by ofou 55 days ago | 51 comments

Paramotorists soar across remote Peru desert to collect threatened plants (phys.org)
In an innovative paper published today in the journal Plants, People, Planet, scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Huarango Nature and paramotorists from Forest Air, highlight the exciting potential of paramotoring as a means of aiding research and conservation efforts in some of the most fragile and challenging parts of the globe.

Conservation, Botany, Technology, Peru, Remote Sensing

69 points by wglb 56 days ago | 24 comments

Dumped orange peel transformed a barren pasture (2017) (sciencealert.com)
An experimental conservation project that was abandoned and almost forgotten about, has ended up producing an amazing ecological win nearly two decades after it was dreamt up.

Conservation, Ecology, Environmental Science, Science, Agriculture

221 points by metadat 58 days ago | 148 comments

Taj Mahal's magnificence fading? Cracks appear across the iconic monument (indiatimes.com)

Taj Mahal, Architecture, India, Conservation, Historical Sites

7 points by rustoo 60 days ago | 0 comments

Wildlife experts warn of butterfly emergency as count reveals record low numbers (news.sky.com)
Conservationists have declared a "butterfly emergency" after a vast community survey recorded the lowest ever numbers of the insect.

Conservation, Environment, Wildlife, Insects

51 points by austinallegro 62 days ago | 2 comments

Wild ginseng is declining, but small-scale 'diggers' aren't the main threat (theconversation.com)
Across Appalachia, September marks the start of ginseng season, when thousands of people roam the hills searching for hard-to-reach patches of this highly prized plant.

Environment, Botany, Conservation, Appalachia

11 points by rntn 66 days ago | 0 comments

No basis for claim that 80% of biodiversity is found in Indigenous territories (nature.com)
A much-cited statistic about how much of the world’s biodiversity is under Indigenous stewardship is unsupported — and could harm the cause it is meant to support.

Indigenous Peoples, Biodiversity, Conservation, Science

9 points by morea 69 days ago | 0 comments

Wild Mustang and Burro Freeze Marks (2020) [pdf] (mustangheritagefoundation.org)

Animals, Wildlife, Conservation, Environmental Science, Photography

34 points by 082349872349872 73 days ago | 17 comments

Nature’s Ghosts: The World We Lost and How to Bring it Back (nature.com)
Even ‘untouched’ natural landscapes bear witness to millennia of human influence, a lyrical book argues — with implications for how we seek to rewild them.

Nature, Environmentalism, Rewilding, Conservation, Human Impact

86 points by Thevet 73 days ago | 81 comments

The Largest Wetland Is Burning, and Rare Animals Are Dying (nytimes.com)

Environment, Climate Change, Wildlife, Conservation

8 points by thelastgallon 80 days ago | 1 comments

The Powerful Potential of Tiny Conservation Plots (noemamag.com)

Conservation, Biology, Environmentalism

10 points by PaulHoule 80 days ago | 0 comments

Krishna Bhusal: Time to highlight South Asia's less-studied vultures (mongabay.com)

Conservation, South Asia, Birds, Endangered Species

4 points by PaulHoule 82 days ago | 0 comments

We can and should domesticate raccoons (oliviali.me)