Ex-situ conservation

Conservation Officer Protecting nature, catching criminals, and enjoying the great outdoors, there's nothing like the daily life of a conservation officer. In the criminal filled world of the outdoors we need someone to protect and keep it safe. Who could this be you may ask? The answer is conservation officers. Officers enforce fish and game laws and work to help and protect nature. The great outdoors is a wonderful place, but the truth is there are some bad people out there. Often…

3 Ways To Boost Furnace Effectiveness When the warm air inside your house leaks out quickly, your furnace will have to work harder than normal to keep your home warm. Having walls, ceilings, and floors that are properly insulated will go a long way with keeping the hot air in, but they are not enough. Windows are one area where air tends to leak out the most, and if you ignore them, your furnace won’t be operating at optimal efficiency. Double-Pane Windows If your home is older and still has…

area (Zuardo). The International Union for Conservation of Nature Red List assessments estimated the population to be less than 500 individuals, but the most recent surveys on Isla Escudo detected only “79 individuals located in five isolated patches of red mangrove forest, with no single population great than 20…

In Edward O. Wilson’s newest book Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, he argues that if we conserve half of the earth’s land and water for nature, we are likely to save 90% of the remaining life on the planet. At Wildlands Network, we have long advocated for essentially the same vision for the biodiversity of North America, long before Dr. Wilson so eloquently put it into words at the global scale. We’re putting these ideas into practice with the formation of our Eastern Wildway Network,…

As the summer is approaching, homeowners will be desperately looking for efficient air conditioning systems. Air conditioning is a godsend during the hot summer months but as summer months fade away, people tend to forget the value of it. Air conditioning repair is a major household expense. To avoid the likelihood of your air conditioner breaking down, it is important to keep it properly maintained. Furthermore, it is important that the repair of air conditioners is performed properly. The…

The Law of Conservation of Mass is a system where an isolated system cannot be created or destroyed by a chemical reaction or physical transforms. (from the website: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/introchem/chapter/the-law-of-conservation-of-mass/).The Law states that mass of products in the reaction must be equal to the reactans or the things that causes the reactants.Again from the same website.The History behind it is that the Greeks were the first to come up with the idea,but it wasn’t…

Sumatran tiger, is the smallest of the remaining five tiger subspecies. It has lived for over a million years in the once extensive moist tropical jungles of the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. It has not yet been assessed for the IUCN Red List but its conservation status is listed as critically endangered. Their population in the wild has heavily diminished and is estimated to range between less than 400 to 500 remaining tigers. Their habitat ranges from lowland forest to mountain forest and…

What Does Conservation Mean to Me? Gaylord Nelson, the founder of Earth Day and a prior senator of the United States, once said, “The most important environmental issue is one that is rarely mentioned, and that is the lack of conservation ethnic in our culture.” Nelson, like me, appreciates the outdoors and wants to keep it beautiful. Although, to do that, we need to conserve the three main subjects, energy, water, wildlife, and trees just a bit more. Our lives revolve around the environment.…

messages from the presentation, in particular, that resonated with me the most. These messages include the purpose of conservation, and persevering even when the outlook is grim. It was due to the relatedness and the fact that conservation scientists often forget these messages that I regard the aforementioned messages as the most important. Brian Gratwicke defined the purpose of conservation science to be the mitigation of a threat. This purpose is often lost in light of politics. For…

How paradigms works to both advance and hinder the wildlife profession There have been multiple changes in paradigms during North American history, beginning with the occupation by Europeans. Like their European ancestors, early immigrants to North American had little value for wildlife. A dominance paradigm attributed to Judeo-Christian ethics was evident in early settlers who felt a sense of responsibility to exploit the gifts of the earth. These early stages of wildlife management in North…