— “when we go back, we can put the mussel in a hole,” clayton said. “so it’s easier, less energy consuming for that mussel to rebury into the substrate.” each mussel will be tagged with small silver plastic tag and measured. “so we’ve actually had mussels in here who’ve been tracked for the 15-year period we’ve been monitoring here,” she said. read : mussel woman, biologist passes along pearls of wisdom about threatened mussels
art ecology science & animals
From interviews
PROGRESS FOR BIG INDICATORS
— fin whales, once hunted to the brink of extinction, have been upgraded from endangered to vulnerable, according to a report published this week by the international union for the conservation of nature (iucn). read : fin whales removed from global list of endangered species more: fin whales back from brink of extinction thanks to conservation efforts more : scientists count whales from space
AI & HUMINT COLLAB
PAWS, which stands for protection assistant for wildlife security, is a newly developed ai that takes data about previous poaching activities and outputs routes for patrols based on where poaching is likely to occur — algorithms used by homeland security, the transportation security administration, and the coast guard to predicts where resources like agents and surveillance would best be placed to interfere with smuggling and terrorism. read article : rangers use artificial intelligence to fight poachers
THIS IS WHOS PATAGONIA?
— many locals are wary of large-scale intervention by rich outsiders. nevertheless, the parque patagonia project has already achieved much. read article : the new face of patagonia more : parque patagonia
DEMENTED ARCHITECTURE & THE HITLERI CAVE BEETLE
— anophthalmus hitleri, a blind cave beetle species, was discovered in 1933 and endemic in slovenia. is now endangered. the same beetle is also the subject of an art work – wallpaper to be precise – on show at wellington’s city gallery as part of the group exhibition demented architecture. read article : at wellington’s city gallery more : jasmina cibic
A HORSE IS A HORSE
— it said the petitioners failed to prove that the behavior of the wild mustang herds is significantly different from that of domestic horses listen : wild horses not declared as threatened or endangered
REWILDING WORDS
george monbiot to orion’s editor, jennifer sahn
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