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April 30, 2018
Every February, the staff of the Pacific Pocket Mouse (PPM) Conservation Breeding Facility and some wonderful volunteers prepare our facility for the start of a new breeding season.
During the months of October...
April 24, 2018
My coworker, Emily Gray, and I celebrated Earth Day this year by promoting one of our study species, the Stephens’ kangaroo rat (SKR). SKR are one of the animal stars (endangered species) that live on the...
March 27, 2018
With some notable exceptions (e.g. lions, hyenas, wolves, wild dogs and others), most large carnivores live a solitary existence. They hunt for food, raise young, and fend off rivals all on their own. This is true...
February 12, 2018
I recently joined San Diego Zoo Global’s reticulated giraffe conservation project. I started volunteering with the project in September, and am now working full time on the project.
My role mainly...
January 30, 2018
At the beginning of 2017, I moved to California to work with the Reproductive Sciences team at the San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research and continue my research passion of applying assisted...
January 18, 2018
2017 was an incredibly successful year in our quest to conserve rare plants and end extinction in San Diego County. I’m excited to share some of our highlights.
In 2017 we made a total of 33 seed collections...
January 16, 2018
Iconic in spirit and towering in stature, the reticulated giraffe of East Africa is, unfortunately, under siege. This graceful animal has declined by about 70 percent in the past 20 years—from 36,000 to fewer...
January 15, 2018
Cyclura nubila caymanensis, aka SIRI (Sister Islands Rock Iguanas) are endemic to the Cayman Islands. More specifically, they can be found only on the Sister Islands of Little Cayman and Cayman Brac. The taxon is...
January 08, 2018
Two thousand seven hundred years ago, at a place called Nimrud (in present-day Iraq), lived a woman named Ninharrissi. In Assyrian language, her name translates to Lady of the Mountains. Ninharrissi loved to...
January 08, 2018
Many of our San Diego County endangered plants face serious hurdles on their road to recovery. I have personally seen a decline in many of our endangered plant populations, usually the result of invasive species....
