Charley, as the turtle was named, was placed among seaweed 25 miles off Marathon on Friday. The sea turtle had been rescued seventeen days earlier by a fisherman who saw it floating about twenty miles off the Middle Keys. Leer más.
In January 2012 a wildfire ravaged the 1,000 hectare Elandsberg Nature Reserve 100km north of Cape Town, South Africa – home to the Geometric tortoise (Psammobates geometricus). Where more than 200 lived before the fire, estimates suggest only 65 still survive. The IUCN’s Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Specialist Group considers this tortoise to be one of the world’s 25 most endangered. Leer más.
Scientists at the Vancouver Aquarium have sprung into action, as part of an effort to prevent an endangered frog population from becoming extinct in eastern British Columbia. Leer más.
La primavera está en pleno auge, días de lluvia, dan paso a cielos azules con temperaturas agradables, que hacen que sea la mejor época para estar en contacto con la naturaleza. Desde la última visita, han caído unos 127 l/m2, datos del SAIH, que se suman a las ya abundantes precipitaciones del año hidrológico, siendo esto muy bien aprovechado por los anfibios. Leer más.
The European Institutes for Advanced Study (EURIAS) Fellowship Programme is an international researcher mobility programme offering 10-month residencies in one of the 16 participating Institutes: Berlin, Bologna, Brussels, Budapest, Cambridge, Delmenhorst, Freiburg, Helsinki, Jerusalem, Lyon, Marseille, Paris, Uppsala, Vienna, Wassenaar, Zürich. The Institutes for Advanced Study support the focused, self-directed work of outstanding researchers. The fellows benefit from the finest intellectual and research conditions and from the stimulating environment of a multi-disciplinary and international community of first-rate scholars. Leer más.
