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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. Hearing the news, our team members rushed to the site from Phnom Penh, the Cambodian capital.

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

PA Environment Daily

By Alexandra McLaughlin, Penn State News Penn State Extension Master Gardeners from Centre County recently debuted “POLLINATORS! 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.

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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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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. Check out this post on our news site for a curated list. 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.

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Catching Animals. on Camera in the Ellsworth Creek Preserve

Washington Nature

by Iseabel Nance, University of Washington News Lab The Nature Conservancy’s Ellsworth Creek Preserve is a “living laboratory.” A new study led by TNC Science Program Specialist Maia Murphy-Williams is looking at one piece of the puzzle to understand the impact of forest-restoration methods.

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ESA Policy News: November 8, 2021

ESA

Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) have expressed concerns over the total price tag of the budget reconciliation bill. . The new draft of the bill from the House Rules Committee is smaller than the $3.5 More News: House Passes $1 Trillion Infrastructure Bill, Putting Social Policy Bill on Hold – The New York Times.

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ESA Policy News: September 13, 2021

ESA

Forest ecologist named OSTP assistant director for climate and biodiversity. trillion ( see ESA Policy News, Aug. Both Senators voted for a procedural motion to advance consideration of the bill, but they have expressed concerns about the total price tag. More News: Democrats Want a ‘Climate Corps.’ The New York Times.

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