Professor Nishikawa Kanto of #KyotoUniversity & a team of researchers announced that they found living examples of the species #SouthChina giant salamander, or Andrias sligoi.
I'm very pleased to share the news that an International Union for the Conservation of Nature guidelines document seven years in the making is now published.
"The world at night : preserving natural darkness for heritage conservation and night sky appreciation" is a collection of dark-sky best management practices in parks and protected areas drawn from years of experience.
#DYK that the IUCN SSC Seahorse, Pipefish & Seadragon Specialist Group (SPS SG) is dedicated to the conservation of seahorses, pipefishes, pipehorses and seadragons— as well as related species such as trumpetfishes, cornetfishes, and shrimpfishes?
Project Seahorse is the host for this specialist group, and our director, Prof. Amanda Vincent, is it's Chair.
@projectseahorse I found the whole website very interesting, a great introduction to the work of an #IUCN#SpecialistGroup - & I enjoyed the glorious images scattered throughout.
This may be the first IUCN entity officially represented on the Fediverse; may others follow! Meanwhile I appreciate the gorgeous photo stream of #EndangeredSpecies from @redlist & look forward to more portraits of #QuirkyFish.
On the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, looking back to look forward.
August 21, 2023 - by Terry Tempest Williams
As a child, I watched the men I loved in my family lift their high-powered rifles and shoot one #PrairieDog after another and another for fun, and then walk away. They called them “pop-guts.” On the way back to our camp, I stepped over their small blood-soaked,
At the State Capitol, I was met with incredulity and disdain by representatives who insisted on calling prairie dogs “varmints,” the Speaker of the House handed me a recipe for “Prairie Dog Stew.”
Finally in 1984, the Utah prairie dog was added to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife’s Endangered Species List and remains on the #IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.