Researchers have been estimating the vast numbers of insects, including many pollinators, migrating at one location in the Pyrenees. But climate change and habitat loss could affect their abundance.
Joseph Curti, University of California, Los Angeles and Morgan Tingley, University of California, Los Angeles
Even in a concrete jungle like Los Angeles, wild species show up in surprising places. New research identifies the types of wildlife that best tolerate urban development.
Uniquely, an Australian subtropical peatland ecosystem exists that is not only resilient to the frequent bushfires, but actually needs fire to survive.
Zoologist Elizabeth Morrison receives the Jamaican giant galliwasp from Mike Rutherford, a curator at the University of Glasgow, on April 22, 2024.
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The majority of 25 surveyed developments around New Zealand lacked healthy, ecologically meaningful vegetation. Applying biodiversity targets for medium-density housing could turn this around.
A pollinator garden at McConnell Air Force Base in Wichita, Kan., with nine species of native plants.
USFWS Mountain-Prairie
NoMowMay is a catchy concept, but it doesn’t provide the food that native North American pollinators need or lasting support for them.
Sunday Abiodun, 40, a former poacher turned forest ranger, armed with a sword, looks for poachers inside the Omo Forest Reserve in Nigeria, 2023. Abiodun is now part of a team working to protect the Omo Forest Reserve, which is facing expanding deforestation from excessive logging, uncontrolled farming and poaching.
(AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)
Matthew Flinders Professor of Global Ecology and Models Theme Leader for the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage, Flinders University