Wildlife Ecology and Management

Wildlife Ecology and Management (5th Edition) Product Description: This exceptionally comprehensive, single-source introduction to the art, science, theories, practices, and issues of wildlife management is ideal for the novice in the subject. Features full-chapters on predators, urban wildlife, policy, water, soil, diseases, conservation biology. New, up-to-date issues covered include the removal of dams, global warming, emerging diseases among elk and deer, adaptive harvest... Read Full Story

Image: heatherkh (taken underwater so is not the sharpest of images.) Your first response may well be ‘Is that thing REAL?!’ and no one would blame you in the slightest. However, while this luridly multicolored insectoid monstrosity may at first appear to be an elaborately designed model, rest assured that the little fellow is very real - right down to the stylish purple beret. Image: Bedwetting in Australia What we have here is a larvae of one of the many varieties of Caddisfly... Read Full Story

Image: wvs In the early 1900s, near the Berezovka river in Ukraine, frozen Woolly Mammoths were found with half chewed food still in their mouths, and more food undigested in their stomachs. Since then, scientists have been debating and speculating about what terrible environmental scenario could have flash frozen Woolly Mammoths so quickly. Image: Paul L McCord Jnr One scenario, put forward in the 1999 book The Coming Global Superstorm , posits that freezing arctic air could be... Read Full Story

Have you ever heard of aerial hunting? It's a brutal practice. Wolves are shot from low-flying aircraft or chased to exhaustion, then killed at point-blank range. Governor Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for Vice President, promotes this barbaric practice, exploiting a loophole in the Federal Airborne Hunting Act to allow private wolf killers to shoot down wolves using aircraft. To encourage the killing, she even proposed a $150 bounty for the left foreleg of each dead wolf! We have to... Read Full Story

Due to the efforts of conservation groups, the Pemba flying fox, a type of giant fruit bat with a wingspan of over 5 ½ feet long, has been saved from the brink of extinction. The story of the bats remarkable comeback is, according to conservationists, a true success story. As recently as 1989, only a handful of bats could be found on Pemba, a tropical island off the coast of Tanzania. The decline in the bat population was due to several factors: hunting, low birth rate, and the destruction... Read Full Story

If you understand the environment you are visiting - you can see so much more! I know sometimes it is fun to just turn up somewhere and take in everything you see at face value - but it is so much more of a vacation if you actually know what you are looking at and why it is there. Why Learning Is Fun. On a recent trip to Costa Rica I had brought some wildlife guide books (as I have a keen interest in mammals anyway) and had a good look through them on the journey there. They... Read Full Story

A summer of rain, last year's effort to rake up infected leaves, or maybe just the natural immune system of trees. Whatever the reason this year the dreaded tar spot disease has not been as prevalent. These leaves were picked up yesterday, as the fall colours begin to come out spectacularly. A year ago not one of the leaves would not have been splotched with fungus growths which look just like tar spots. A little hope for the world! Read Full Story

On 6 April 2008, water voles received full protection under Section 9 of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended). Full legal protection makes it an offence to intentionally kill, injure or take water voles, intentionally or recklessly damage, destroy or obstruct access to any structure or place used for shelter or protection and to intentionally or recklessly disturb water voles whilst occupying a structure or place used for that purpose. There is a defence against the above... Read Full Story

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An afternoon bobbing and weaving between heavy rain showers found me at a vacant lot in an upscale subdivision in NW Gainesville, FL. A pair of Mississippi Kites winged overhead, calling loudly, and clearly taking insects out of the air above my head. I am not usually so close to these birds. It was very pleasing to watch these birds doing their work with such a will. I was at that location to look at trees on the lot of a soon-t0-be-built home. Honest opinion: The lot was the one of... Read Full Story