Conservation biology

responsible for it as the person who illegally transported it and the person who bought the animal can get in just as much trouble. Cobra international states” ...has escalated into an international crisis. Wildlife trafficking is both a critical conservation concern and a threat to global security with significant effects on the national interests of the United States and the interests of our partners around the world.” (Kibwana) To stop this wildlife trafficking will be a work in progress.…

to listen to counter arguments and just see this as a negative thing with no benefits to animals. Despite common conception, legal trophy hunting has helped saved species, persevered land from development and is the majority source of wild life conservation funding in these countries. I also feel the need to point out that trophy hunting and…

(e.g., glaciated northern part of North America and Europe) has become a conservation threat to rare native species, community, and ecosystems (Gundale 2002; Hale et al. 2006; Nuzzo et al 2009; Maerz et al. 2009; Sutherland et al. 2011; Nuzzo et al. 2015). In 2011, Sunderland and coauthors identified earthworm invasions in previously earthworm free regions as one of the 15 most immerging issues of biodiversity conservation. One of the reason for the issue is that invasions by European earthworms…

Are killing wild animals from their habitat safe for the environment, extinction, and safety of others? Big game hunting is also a big business for wealthy few, it has become a dreadful and unacceptable sport that was taken too far, from where people have been killed and populations has been unstable. A stable population, safe sports and environment are more imperative than just a trophy of a piece of animal that is kept to represent the success of hunting. Trophy hunting should be tamed before…

The paper I have chosen to do a referee report on, "Contributions of the US state park system to nature recreation"by Juha Siikamäki, analyzes the economic contributions of state park systems in the United States. The stated goal of the paper was to estimate the net contributions of state parks in the US to help aid policy makers, and the public, with public policy and management decisions. To do this the author uses a novel approach to help with estimating the economic contributions of a state…

Intrude There are many problems we have in this world. One that we don’t think about is poaching. Poaching is basically hunting, killing, taking or capturing wildlife illegally from its habitat. A poacher will kill animals out of season or kill the endangered animals for a profit and doesn’t care about the effect that is left. It happens way too much, it is done all around the world. Even here in the United States, but what separates us from some other countries is we have DNRs’ and the…

The two strategies outlined above may not be ideal conservation solutions as separate methods, but perhaps make work in conjunction with one another. A short-term strategy such as supplementary food items and the re-introduction of rabbit species may be used while the process of protecting an area is being completed. The short-term approach would allow the survival of the species hopefully for a duration that would provide a reasonable amount of time for the protected areas to come into practice…

SAN DIEGO >> U.S. researchers are launching studies on Mexico’s red-crowned parrot — a species that has been adapting so well to living in cities in California and Texas after escaping from the pet trade that the population may now rival that in its native country. The research comes amid debate over whether some of the birds flew across the border into Texas and should be listed under the Endangered Species Act. Parrots in U.S. urban areas are just starting to draw attention from…

And we won’t admit it. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature there is around 16,000 species at risk of extinction and 41,415 species that are threatened. Many species including ourselves are in danger if we do not look for a solution to prevent it. In Andrea Wulf’s The Invention of Nature, she introduces Alexander von Humboldt who was the first scientist to notice climate change. Today, it is a big topic since we can see it occur in front us or on the news such as and…

journalist Elizabeth Kolbert discusses New Zealand’s problem with invasive species attacking endemic fauna which results in many of their native species becoming extinct. Kolbert explains the problems of exterminating specific animals such as stoat for conservation of their natural wildlife. She also explains the issues of how explorers brought various animals to different parts of the world. Hence, Elizabeth Kolbert discusses the difficulty of eliminating invasive species and that extreme…