“‘The idea is to create a baseline national map of the remnant kelp forests, something that’s actually never existed before,’ said Leah Kaplan, sustainability business lead for Google Cloud, APAC. Those maps will be used by the Nature Conservancy and its partners to guide the planting of more heat-resistant varieties of kelp.”
From Bloomberg.
“The wild tiger population in Thailand’s Western Forest Complex, near the border with Myanmar, has increased almost fivefold in the last 15 years from about 40 in 2007 to between 179 and 223 last year, according to the kingdom’s Department of National Parks.”
From FRANCE 24.
“Once hunted to local extinction in southern Finland, Wolverine has been observed returning to its historical range.
The exciting news was revealed by a study published in Ecology and Evolution in which scientists from Aalto University used satellite imagery and field data to document the elusive mammal’s gradual reappearance.
Classified as Endangered in Finland since the 1980s, Wolverine was last seen in the south of the country in the 19th century.”
From BirdGuides.
Cornell Lab of Ornithology | Conservation & Biodiversity
“In just 20 years Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas removed 60 populations of invasive mammals from 39 islands: rats, cats, mice, dogs, donkeys, goats, and rabbits. With invasive mammals gone, the stage was set for seabirds to return.
Even after the mammal invaders are removed it’s not always easy to convince seabirds to recolonize an island…
Over the past decade, the biologists of Grupo de Ecología y Conservación de Islas have been attracting seabirds to islands by installing decoys, audio systems, and mirrors (which create an illusion of more birds than there really are). Biologists built artificial burrows to give seabirds a head start on nesting in their new homes. While continuing to remove invasive mammals and vegetation, they have also trained lighthouse keepers and navy personnel to avoid introducing new invasive species…
Of 27 seabird populations that had disappeared from Pacific islands near Baja California, 22 populations have returned within the past decade. Four new species are nesting in the region, including Blue-footed Booby and Caspian Tern.”
The Dispatch Newspaper | Conservation & Biodiversity
“For the first time, biologists have documented zoo-reared northern leopard frogs surviving a winter in the wild at the Columbia National Wildlife Refuge in Eastern Washington — despite the presence of invasive American bullfrogs that nearly wiped them out.
Thanks to targeted bullfrog control, some of the northern leopard frogs released last August by the Oregon Zoo and Northwest Trek Wildlife Park are surviving, an important turning point in the recovery of this endangered species.
‘This is great news,’ said Jen Osburn Eliot, who oversees the Oregon Zoo’s frog-rearing efforts. ‘We care for these frogs at the zoo until they’re big enough to return to the wild, but without efforts to control the invasive bullfrog population they wouldn’t survive. This is a strong indicator that those efforts are working.'”
From The Dispatch Newspaper.
