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October 23, 2018
It is 5 o’clock in the evening and I’m getting dressed to start my work day. I pick up a tiny white mouse and pack it into my hiking bag. By 9 o’clock, my coworker and I have bushwhacked our way...
October 23, 2018
Westgate Conservancy’s thorny acacia scrubland is the archetypal image of Kenya’s northern rangelands. Registered in 2004 by Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), Westgate Conservancy provides a vital...
October 22, 2018
For any critically endangered species, conservation breeding programs offer a way to bolster the numbers of that species in a safer environment than the wild. This is particularly true of the ‘alalā, or...
October 22, 2018
I am looking through a tiny porthole through which I can see 13 young California condors in a socialization pen (photo 1). This is a one-way mirror, so the condors cannot see me, but I can see them. They are...
October 22, 2018
For the past 25 years, the Institute for Conservation Research at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park has maintained an off-site breeding and research center for critically endangered rock iguanas.
This area...
October 22, 2018
There is a weed invasion in California, and it stinks. Globe chamomile or Stinknet Oncosiphon piluliferum, is a small, herbaceous plant with a noxious odor that is native to South Africa. Although the...
October 15, 2018
Everything began with a presentation about Andean bears in Lima in 1996. I was a kid, and I was left with an unforgettable impression of Andean bears: the place they lived, the distinctive white marks in their...
October 08, 2018
This is a blog post about work being done by San Diego Zoo Global and the University of Washington, rearing and releasing Mariana crows (Aga) on the Island of Rota, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands...
October 02, 2018
When one thinks of studying the diets of large, charismatic predators such as bears and big cats, one cannot help but get carried away with the notion that the research must be like a David Attenborough documentary...
October 01, 2018
It’s amazing what technology can do today. For example, the Reproductive Sciences lab has a new piece of equipment called the Biostation IMQ. It is a microscope inside a small incubator that takes...
