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Perspective | Giant Catch in the Mekong Reveals Mysteries of Biodiversity Hot Spot

Circle of Blue

The stingray was tagged with a tracking device and returned to the Mekong River, where its movements are informing conservation planning. Despite its importance, little is known about this ecosystem and the biodiversity that exists here. It turned out to be the largest freshwater fish ever caught. Agency for International Development.

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Specimen Preparation: A Preservation of Time

Academy of Natural Sciences

For example, specimens can help us to analyze how species evolve over time, how environmental changes affect biodiversity, and why some species have gone extinct or have become endangered. All of this data is recorded in the preparation notebook and then transcribed to a tag that is ultimately tied to the specimen. After a skin?is

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POLLINATORS! The Musical Coming To Millbrook Marsh Nature Center, State College Sept. 11

PA Environment Daily

This free educational event will include monarch tagging and other activities between the shows. Bees and other pollinators help ensure food security, biodiversity and healthy ecosystems. 20; Bees Play A Critical Role In Food Production, Biodiversity [Posted: August 30, 2022] PA Environment Digest

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‘Many kids go through a phase where they want to be a marine scientist. For me, it wasn’t a phase’

Frontiers

As a graduate student, I became intrigued about the use of MPAs as conservation management tools to support biodiversity preservation and positive societal impact. We found that tagged sharks spent most of their time adjacent to the MPA, in an area of heavy commercial shark fishing.

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Rematriating Buffalo in Washington State

Washington Nature

Today, the program employs roughly a dozen men to mend fences, tag and inspect Buffalo, and on this night, they were all gathered for the large task of adding the relocated herd to their fields. These colonial strategies not only destabilized Native communities, but they also harmed biodiversity and the overall health of our prairies.

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How dancing honey bees could help us save pollinators

Frontiers

Around the world, they contribute to the conservation of biodiversity, and importantly, to food security. Today (20 May) is all about highlighting the need for worldwide cooperation to restore and support pollinators and the crucial role they play in biodiversity conservation. Bees, insects, birds, butterflies, bats.

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Catching Animals. on Camera in the Ellsworth Creek Preserve

Washington Nature

The team’s hypothesis suggested that an actively restored forest area (thinned treatment type), will have higher biodiversity. Top left: Black bear, top right: Coyote, bottom left: Roosevelt elk, bottom right: Douglas squirrel.

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