Humankind’s appetite for seafood has had a bigger impact on the world’s marine turtles than long thought. A new report by Conservation International (CI) in partnership with Duke University’s Project GloBAL (Global By-catch Assessment of Long-lived Species) finds that in the past eighteen years it is likely millions of marine turtles have been killed as bycatch by the world’s fisheries. Leer más.

La primera mención del género Salamandra en Marruecos se debe a Boulenger (1890), basandose en material procedente de ‘Benider Hills near Tanger’. Leer más.

Wildlife personnel have spotted highly threatened albino salt-water crocodiles in the brackish water bodies and water-inlets along the wetlands of Bhitarkanika National Park in Odisha. Leer más.

SalaMarker is a software package originally developed by Jami MacNeil (URL), Guha Dharmarajan (URL), and Rod Williams for use with Visible Implant Elastomers (VIEs). SalaMarker is a computer program that will generate lists of unique marks based on user parameters. The program prompts the user to enter parameters (number of body locations, number of tags, and number of colors) in a step-by step fashion. The program generates codes in a text (.txt) file that can be copied into Microsoft Excel or Word for use in the field or lab. The SalaMarker code generator can be downloaded for free at SalaMarker. Leer más.

The dunes sagebrush lizard survives in one of the smallest habitats of any lizard — a tiny area of oak-covered sand dunes in southeastern New Mexico and west Texas. This habitat covers less than 2 percent of all land in the Permian basin, but is threatened by oil and gas development and herbicides sprayed by ranchers. Leer más.