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January 17, 2013 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Bloodsucking flies help scientists identify rare, hard-to-find mammals

Last year scientists released a study that is likely to revolutionize how conservationists track elusive species. Researchers extracted the recently sucked blood of terrestrial leeches in Vietnam's remote Annamite Mountains and looked at the DNA of wha...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Featured, Syndicated | Tags: africa, animals, archive, conservation, endangered species, environment, features, green, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, madagascar, mammals, rainforest animals, saving species from extinction, strange, technology, tropical forests, wildlife

April 06, 2012 by Mongabay.com | No comments

Baby boom: 18 of the world’s rarest duck born

The global population of one of the world's rarest birds just increased 43 percent. The Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust is reporting that 18 Madagascar pochards — the world's rarest duck — hatched and are now being reared at a facility

Posted in: Conservation corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, birds, conservation, endangered species, environment, green, happy-upbeat environmental, in-situ conservation, madagascar

February 20, 2012 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Innovative conservation: wild silk, endangered species, and poverty in Madagascar

For anyone who works in conservation in Madagascar, confronting the complex difficulties of widespread poverty is a part of the job. But with the wealth of Madagascar's wildlife rapidly diminishing— such as lemurs, miniature chameleons, and hedge...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Interview, Syndicated | Tags: africa, agriculture, animals, community-based conservation, conservation, conservation finance, deforestation, economics, endangered species, environment, environmental economics, farming, governance, green, happy-upbeat environmental, health, illegal logging, in-situ conservation, interviews, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, madagascar, mammals, parks, poverty, primates, protected areas, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforest logging, rainforests, reforestation, sustainability, sustainable development, tropical forests, wildlife

January 09, 2012 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

How lemurs fight climate change

Kara Moses may have never become a biologist if not for a coin toss. The coin, which came up heads and decided Moses' direction in college, has led her on a sinuous path from studying lemurs in captivity to environmental

Posted in: Conservation corner, Interview, Syndicated | Tags: animals, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, climate change, community-based conservation, conservation, corruption, deforestation, ecological services, ecology, ecosystem services, endangered species, environment, environmental services, extinction, forest carbon, forests, governance, green, hunting, illegal logging, in-situ conservation, interviews, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, logging, madagascar, mammals, plants, poaching, poverty, poverty alleviation, primates, rainforest, rainforest animals, rainforest conservation, Rainforest deforestation, rainforest destruction, rainforests, saving rainforests, threats to rainforests, threats to the rainforest, tropical forests, wildlife

February 17, 2011 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Saving Madagascar’s largest carnivorous mammal: the fossa

Madagascar is a land of wonders: dancing lemurs, thumbnail-sized chameleons, the long-fingered aye-aye, great baobab trees, and the mighty fossa. Wait—what? What's a fossa? It's true that when people think of Madagascar rarely do they think of its to...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Interview, Syndicated | Tags: africa, animal behavior, Animal behvaior, animals, community-based conservation, conservation, deforestation, ecology, endangered species, environment, forests, Fragmentation, green, in-situ conservation, interviews, islands, jeremy hance, Lemurs, madagascar, mammals, poaching, poverty, poverty alleviation, predators, primates, protected areas, saving species from extinction, strange, tropical forests, wildlife

September 01, 2010 by Mongabay.com | No comments

Photos: ‘Tarzan’ chameleon discovered in Madagascar

Scientists have discovered a new species of chameleon in a small block of rainforest in Madagascar.

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, animals, biodiversity, conservation, endangered species, environment, forests, green, herps, in-situ conservation, madagascar, mongabay, new species, rainforests, reptiles, species discovery, wildlife

April 06, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Once common tortoise from Madagascar will be ‘extinct in 20 years’

The radiated tortoise, once common throughout Madagascar, faces extinction within the next 20 years due to poaching for its meat and the illegal pet trade, according to biologists with the Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) and the Wildlife Conservation So...

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: africa, animals, conservation, endangered species, environment, extinction, Forest, forests, green, herps, in-situ conservation, jeremy hance, madagascar, mongabay, poaching, poverty, protected areas, reptiles, tropical forests, wcs, wildlife, wildlife trade, wildlife trafficking

March 04, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Photos: Madagascar’s wonderful and wild frogs, an interview with Sahonagasy

To save Madagascar's embattled and beautiful amphibians, scientists are turning to the web. A new site built by herpetologists, Sahonagasy, is dedicated to gathering and providing information about Madagascar's unique amphibians in a bid to save them f...

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January 19, 2010 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Conservation organization, Durrell Wildlife Trust, forced to cut staff due to economic downturn

The Durrell Wildlife Trust—which turned fifty last year—has announced that it will be cutting back 10 percent of its workforce, approximately 12-14 positions, due to an ongoing deficit caused by the economic recession.

Posted in: Conservation corner, Local corner, Syndicated | Tags: amphibians, animals, biodiversity, birds, conservation, conservation finance, economics, endangered species, environment, ex-situ conservation, green, in-situ conservation, islands, jeremy hance, madagascar, mammals, mongabay, primates, rainforest animals, reptiles, saving species from extinction, wildlife

November 12, 2009 by Jeremy Hance | No comments

Forgotten species: Madagascar’s water-loving mammal, the aquatic tenrec

There are many adjectives one could attach to the aquatic tenrec: rare, mysterious, elusive, one-of-a-kind, even adorable, though one tries to stray from such value-laden titles since it excludes so many other non-adorable inhabitants of the animal kin...

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