Sequencing Life To Conserve Biodiversity ( www.technologynetworks.com )
Neil Ward tells us about the role that genomics can play in conserving biodiversity and how innovative technologies such as HiFi sequencing are helping biodiversity projects.
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Neil Ward tells us about the role that genomics can play in conserving biodiversity and how innovative technologies such as HiFi sequencing are helping biodiversity projects.
Proper biodiversity conservation requires long-term commitments to protect areas of land and water, as laid down in international guidelines.
The China Wildlife Conservation Association (CWCA) and the San Diego Zoo in the United States recently signed a giant panda conservation agreement, with a pair of giant pandas selected for a 10-year international conservation cooperation project....
Targeted culling of crown-of-thorns starfish has resulted in parts of the Great Barrier Reef maintaining and even increasing coral cover, leading researchers to call for the programme to be dramatically scaled up
Wanjira has also been working with the county government and the national government in river clean-ups in an initiative dubbed Adopt-a-river, in collaboration with UNEP.
Mexico has had a long history of resilient agricultural systems and food cultures that reflect the country’s agrobiodiversity. With GEF funding, FAO and CONABIO are reviving traditional practices to support the resilience of farmers’ livelihoods and meet the population’s nutritional needs
But the Center for American Progress says states need to do more on conservation.
The sad case of the Norfolk Island morepork shows we need a way to control or eradicate invasive rodents without killing native species. When pest rats and mice decimate populations of native species, pest control is a no-brainer. But what if baiting rats protects threatened songbirds, while poisoning critically endangered owls?...
The Nature Trust of BC is making its final push to purchase a parcel of land near Prince George.The Ferguson Lake Wetlands is a 129.2-hectare area of wetland, riparian forest, and mixed forest ecosystems....
Historical analysis shows that the marine mammals likely kept some of California’s kelp forests growing over the past 100 years.