I am sure many people would agree with me that conservation biology is as much a social/political matter as it a scientific endeavor. Even though scientific information on conservation status of species, general population studies, the efficacy of nature conservation and the causes of biodiversity decline is vital, but it cannot change (at least not easily) the priority we humans give to biodiversity conservation and thus the amount of effort and money we are willing to spend on it. Leer más.

Ciencia en Bicicleta con Carlos Jaramillo, geólogo y científico del Instituto de Investigaciones Tropicales del Smithsonian. Ir al enlace.

La falta de lluvia y la consiguiente sequía podría ser la causa de que este año el número de nacimientos de lagarto gigante de El Hierro, que es una especie en peligro de extinción, haya sido inferior a la de anteriores campañas. Leer más.

More than 200 million olive ridley sea turtle hatchlings have been released over the past six years on La Escobilla beach – in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca – as part of a government conservation program, Environment Secretary Juan Rafael Elvira Quesada said. Leer más.

Magazine of the Species Survival Commission. Ir al enlace.