Content tagged "conservation"
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The Parataxonomist Revolution: How a Group of Rural Costa Ricans Discovered 10,000 New Species
Hiring local people, rather than students or academics, as permanent field researchers upset traditional research structures, but has paid off for science and for local communities.
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In Medias Res, Spring 2015
“As this issue of In Medias Res testifies, however, the challenging weather has not slowed the pace of activities of the denizens of CMS/W!”
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Eyes over Kenya: The use of drones for conservation
Chelsea Barabas (CMS, ’15) and Jude Mwenda (MAS, ’15) spent January in Kenya, working with a conservancy to explore using drones to monitor poaching.
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Preying on the Predator: The Shark Fin Controversy
If the demand for fins and the practice of shark finning continue at the current rate, human interference may forever change the nature of our oceans.
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The Butterfly People, and Their Impacts on the Creatures They Love
The complex interactions between humans and butterflies, focusing specifically on people whose lifestyles are significantly intertwined with butterflies.
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Drinking Up the Desert
Even with the addition of river water, Tucson, like other cities in the American Southwest, continues to search for new water sources for its ever-growing population.
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Eavesdroppers: How Scientists Are Learning to Listen in on the Animal Kingdom: Four Stories on Wildlife and Sound
Sound gives scientists a new way of knowing what is swimming, roaming, and flying where. And some scientists are using these sounds for conservation.
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Winging It: A Bold Step Toward the Whooping Crane’s Return
The concerns and ethics as wildlife biologists train endangered whooping cranes to follow behind ultralight airplanes for their migration’s entire 1,200-mile journey.
