by ABA| Accreditation | Sep 2, 2022 | environment
Editor’s note: News about conservation and the environment is made every day, but some of it can fly under the radar. In a recurring feature, Conservation News shares a recent news story that you should know about.The last known Tasmanian tiger — which was not a...
by ABA| Accreditation | Aug 24, 2022 | environment
The Dongjiang River in southern China provides drinking water for 40 million people, from city dwellers in Hong Kong to rural residents. But this critical freshwater ecosystem is being pushed to its limits. With limited effective wastewater treatment facilities in the...
by ABA| Accreditation | Aug 23, 2022 | environment
The Yukon River is the busiest highway in all of Alaska — each fall, millions of salmon commute up the 3,200-kilometer (1,990-mile) waterway in search of safe places to spawn. Several months later, the river carries millions of juvenile fish downstream to the Bering...
by ABA| Accreditation | Aug 22, 2022 | environment
Did you drink coffee or eat an apple today? Thank a bee.About one out of every three bites of food is made possible by honeybees and other pollinators. Worldwide, they help produce US$ 170 billion in crops per year. But the world’s honeybees are in steep decline, with...
by ABA| Accreditation | Aug 16, 2022 | environment
Editor’s note: News about conservation and the environment is made every day, but some of it can fly under the radar. In a recurring feature, Conservation News shares three stories from the past week that you should know about. From flitting hummingbirds to...
by ABA| Accreditation | Aug 14, 2022 | environment
The zoo in your city may be thousands of miles from the savannahs of Africa — but its effect on wildlife conservation may be many times greater.At least one conservationist says that researchers and staff at the world’s zoos and aquariums — not just scientists in the...
