The Little Things in Life
One can spend days on expedition hoping to see a rare bird species or searching for that elusive mammal only to get a brief glimpse before it flies, hops or […]
Category Archives: Species Conservation
The Bald-headed Uacari
The Sunday Species 16th September 2012 Latin Name: Cacajao calvus Common Name: Bald-headed Uacari Location: Amazonian Peru and Brazil IUCN Red List Status: Vulnerable This neotropical primate species is easily […]
The Last Wild Camels
Camels are incredible creatures with a whole arsenal of traits totally unique amongst mammals. Two species exist today belonging to the genus Camelus, these are the Dromedary and Bactrian camels. […]
A Weekend on Wallasea
Wallasea Island is a low lying coastal floodplain situated north of the River Thames estuary. For generations it has been used as arable farmland, protected by a sea wall, but […]
Funky Flora
Plants are vital to all life on earth. Indeed, they paved the way for animals to exist by filling the air with oxygen, albeit as algae in the seas, and […]
A Typical Day aboard the Lobo de Rio
“Beep beep beep beep beep” wakes me up. I roll over, its 5 in the morning. That was the painfully loud alarm clock from the macaw team’s room as they […]
The Story of the Worlds Rarest Duck
I’ve closely followed the story of the Madagascar Pochard since its rediscovery in 2006. This duck must get the prize for the most elusive species; evading scientists, considered extinct, but in fact clinging on to survival for decades and then saved on the brink of extinction.
On Bees, Crops and Pollination
Pollination is an important ecosystem service at risk. Habitat loss and agricultural intensification are the main threats to pollinators in Europe and America. This ‘pollinator crisis’ is being driven by […]
Radio Tracking for Conservation
Macroecology is the study of large-scale patterns and processes in biodiversity around the globe. One of the key aims in macroecology is to explain the processes that give rise to […]
Pallas’s Cat
The Sunday Species 10th June 2012 Latin Name: Otocolobus manul Common Name: Pallas’s Cat Location: Central Asia Steppe Grasslands IUCN Red List Status: Near Threatened This is a beautiful small […]
Lawrence Ball │ Conservation Science 