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Movin' On Up

By Biohabitats / On February 16th, 2015
Loggerhead sea turtle.
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And Winter Broke

By Cristina Eisenberg / On March 31st, 2011
In March I participated in a University of Nebraska literary retreat at the Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust. It was the climax of spring migration on the river, where sandhill cranes pause to feed during their 5,000 mile journey from Mexico to as far as Siberia. I spent my time there ensconced in a primitive blind with several eminent poets, bearing witness to the cranes' sempiternal return.
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Road Ecology: Making Roads Safer for Animals and Humans

By Admin / On September 15th, 2010
Animals and cars don't go well together. Increasingly, wildlife crossings are coming into focus for many transportation departments across the country. The California Roadkill Observation System (CROS ) is the first statewide roadkill reporting web site and is a way for people throughout the state to record their observations of the dead animals and of their environmental context.
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Northern Invaders

By David Wilcove / On October 30th, 2008
Lately I've been paying more attention to the birds visiting my backyard feeder, and I'm sure I'm not the only one doing so. As the end of fall approaches, lots of birdwatchers in the northeastern United States begin to wonder whether the "winter finches" will appear.
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New Lessons from Old Europe

By David Wilcove / On October 9th, 2008
Scientists tend to distrust conclusions that are not based on empirical data and adequate sample sizes. So take what I'm about to say with a large grain of salt, since it is neither empirical nor based on sufficient data. The issue of sustainability is arguably the greatest challenge of our time. How do we provide for 6.7 billion people (rising to over 9 billion by mid-century) without inflicting irreparable harm to our environment?
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Migrating Birds of Falsterbo

By David Wilcove / On October 2nd, 2008
In late September, there are few places in North America where I would rather be than Cape May, New Jersey, arguably the best place on the continent to watch migrating birds in the autumn. But I'm in Europe now, not North America, and this past weekend I had the pleasure of visiting the Cape May of Scandinavia, a place called Falsterbo. Located in southwestern Sweden, Falsterbo is a thin peninsula that juts into the ocean.