Hacker News with Generative AI: Conservation

Amazon deforestation declines to lowest level in a decade (tdynews.com)
Brazil has reported a significant reduction in deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, with the loss of trees decreasing by 31% over the past year.

Amazon Rainforest, Deforestation, Brazil, Environmental News, Conservation

5 points by Sontho 7 days ago | 0 comments

The return of the buffalo is reviving portions of the ecosystem (nativesunnews.today)
“Bringing buffalo back to their ancestral homelands is essential to restoring the ecosystem.”~ Executive Director for Tanka Fund Dawn Sherman

Environment, Wildlife, Conservation

66 points by geox 10 days ago | 35 comments

Botanical gardens have reached peak capacity (cosmosmagazine.com)
In an analysis of a century’s worth of data on botanical gardens and arboreta, researchers reveal that global living plant collections have reached capacity, impacting their ability to meet scientific and conservation goals.

Science, Botany, Conservation, Environmentalism, Research

9 points by geox 11 days ago | 0 comments

Mapping Antarctica’s hidden ice-free lands: a blueprint for conservation (unsw.edu.au)
UNSW researchers unveil a new map and classification system that will help protect the unique plants and animals of Earth’s most remote and fragile continent.

Antarctica, Conservation, Geography, Mapping, Research

73 points by gmays 13 days ago | 1 comments

In Praise of Subspecies (aeon.co)
To lump or to split? Deciding whether an animal is a species or subspecies profoundly influences our conservation priorities

Conservation, Biology, Taxonomy, Species

21 points by Petiver 17 days ago | 7 comments

How to Tell a Leopard from Its Roar (nautil.us)
Making a Shazam for conservationists

Conservation, Wildlife Identification, Animal Behavior, Technology

6 points by dnetesn 37 days ago | 2 comments

One of four lynx captured in Scottish Highlands dies (theguardian.com)
One of the four lynx captured in the Scottish Highlands this week has died.

Wildlife, Scotland, Conservation

6 points by howard941 40 days ago | 0 comments

Great Whales Can Live a Lot Longer Than We Thought – If We Leave Them Alone (theguardian.com)
Bowhead whales may not be the only species that can live to 200 years old. Researchers have found that the industrial hunting of great whales has masked the ability of these underwater giants to also live to great ages

Marine Biology, Longevity, Conservation, Environmental Impact, Whales

4 points by m463 47 days ago | 0 comments

Ireland has lost almost all its native forests (worldsensorium.com)

Ireland, Deforestation, Environment, Conservation

66 points by dnetesn 48 days ago | 18 comments

Baby red handfish 'thriving' in captive-breeding program in Tasmania (abc.net.au)
A Tasmanian marine research project has handed "one of the world's rarest fish" a lifeline.

Conservation, Marine Biology, Endangered Species, Australia

5 points by PaulHoule 49 days ago | 0 comments

Chlamydia could make koalas extinct. Can a vaccine save them in time? (bbc.com)
This hospital is ground zero of a grim chlamydia epidemic which is killing thousands of koalas and making even more sterile, pushing the national icons to the brink of extinction.

Wildlife, Conservation, Health, Australia, Extinction

6 points by peutetre 52 days ago | 0 comments

Painstaking work to conserve Ireland's oldest paper documents begins (theguardian.com)
Work has begun to conserve and digitise one of the oldest paper documents still in existence on the island of Ireland.

History, Conservation, Ireland, Digitization, Documents

12 points by bookofjoe 52 days ago | 3 comments

Bird flu kills more than half the big cats at a Washington sanctuary (cnn.com)

Animal Health, Wildlife, Disease Outbreaks, Conservation

169 points by bikenaga 57 days ago | 58 comments

Saving the Apple's Ancient Ancestor in the Forests of Kazakhstan (smithsonianmag.com)
Found in the Tian Shan mountains, Malus sieversii could hold the secret to making other species of the fruit more stress-resistant

Conservation, Botany, Kazakhstan, Genetics

11 points by vector_spaces 62 days ago | 2 comments

When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to Now for Rewilding in Ireland? (worldsensorium.com)
When Two Hemispheres Collide: Where to now for rewilding in Ireland?

Rewilding, Ireland, Conservation, Environmentalism, Geography

81 points by dnetesn 64 days ago | 21 comments

"The Custer Wolf is Dead." (1921) [pdf] (cdn.pbs.org)

History, Wildlife, Conservation

51 points by joebig 66 days ago | 12 comments

As Wolf Populations Rebound, an Angry Backlash Intensifies (e360.yale.edu)
The reintroduction of endangered wolves to Yellowstone National Park 30 years ago was a major conservation victory. But as wolves have spread across the West, anger and resentment at the apex predator has escalated, with hunters in some states increasingly targeting them.

Wildlife, Conservation, Environmentalism, Human-Wildlife Conflict, Politics

10 points by chmaynard 70 days ago | 8 comments

Miles of Russian Forest Couldn't Keep These Two Tigers Apart (nytimes.com)
When Russian scientists released a pair of orphaned Amur tiger cubs into the wild in a remote corner of Russia’s far east in 2014, they were trying to save a species.

Wildlife, Conservation, Russia, Endangered Species

18 points by Thevet 71 days ago | 12 comments

Turning bogs from wastelands to nature-scapes (worldsensorium.com)
An astonishing 85% of our peatlands are degraded.

Environment, Conservation, Peatlands, Sustainability

35 points by dnetesn 81 days ago | 10 comments

An English castle became a stork magnet (bbc.com)
Helped by a bold rewilding project, storks are migrating between Britain and North Africa again for the first time in 600 years. How can we make their journey safer?

Wildlife, Conservation, Migration, England

67 points by ohjeez 88 days ago | 14 comments

For the Love of a Little Sea (hakaimagazine.com)
The birthplace of experimental marine biology is in decline. Will Ireland rally to save it?

Marine Biology, Ireland, Conservation

19 points by benbreen 90 days ago | 0 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, Environment, Science

8 points by Brajeshwar 94 days ago | 1 comments

Scientists Clone Two Black-Footed Ferrets from Frozen Tissues (smithsonianmag.com)
Researchers have cloned two black-footed ferrets from preserved tissue samples in an effort to conserve the creatures, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service announced last week.

Cloning, Conservation, Endangered Species, Genetics, Science

96 points by Brajeshwar 94 days ago | 18 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 95 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 96 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 100 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 101 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 110 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 110 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 114 days ago | 19 comments