Category:Wildlife
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We share this planet with thousands of other animal species, which you can learn more about on this page.
See also Biodiversity and Marine Mammals pages, and of course Global Warming and Deforestation. Antidote to trendlines: New Page: Awwwwwwwww (pictures of baby animals).
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Overviews/Background
The Atlas of Global Conservation is being published by UC Press and The Nature Conservancy on this day. Presented here at Google by The Nature Conservancy's Lead Scientist, Dr. M. Sanjayan (a Slug!).
10 Species we'll probably lose and 10 success stories (condor is on both lists, see below).
How Long Do Animals Live? (interesting graphic)
Powerful video: She's Alive... Beautiful... Finite...Hurting...Worth dying for (too many activists killed by poachers and loggers.
16 wildlife hotspots in the U.S. that need protecting (East coast).
UCSC pioneered the idea of rewilding, including bringing back extinct species. This has been taken up by LongNow, and was basis of TEDx conference.
News Articles
News Sources
Yale's Environment 360 has many great articles on bio-diversity, for example How humans are affected in unexpected ways by species loss.
Animal Lifeboats, zoos and biodiversity.
Stories
Rhinos In Mozambique Likely Extinct, Expert Says; Elephants May Be Next 5/13
Central African Republic Elephants Killed By Poachers In Dzanga-Ndoki National Park (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) 5/13. Elephant stomps on a poacher who tried to shoot him.
Who Would Kill A Monk Seal? 5.13.
Vineyards Could Shrink 73 Percent by 2050. That means the wine industry is going to start using more water. Some wineries may move to new areas, such as Montana and British Columbia."Those are areas that can be important for grizzlies and moose and wolves and a whole range of wildlife," Hannah said. Central China, home to the giant panda, also could become suitable for vineyards, according to the study. Setting up wildlife corridors now is one way to protect wildlife as wineries put down new roots, said co-author Rebecca Shaw of the Environmental Defense Fund. 4/13.
Lawmakers Push To Take Gray Wolf Off Endangered Species List 3/13
DNA makes possible resurrecting extinct species See also Lazarus Project brooding frog NPR audio 3/13. Stewart Brand muses.
5 big breakthroughs at CITES 2013, sharks, apes, rhinos, elephants, tutrles 3/13
Tiger Bone Wine Trade Reveals China's Two-Faced Approach To Conservancy (NSFW) 3/13.
Wolverines Threatened By Climate Change, Officials Propose Endangered Species Act Protection turns out (turns out the honey badger WILL give a bleep). More on Wolverines.
Please do feed the polar bears (or they’ll die)
Biotechnology to save species.
2011 Elephant Poaching Surged To Record Levels, WWF Report Finds (PHOTOS).
Animals Lost in Wolf Hunts Near Yellowstone including, sadly, the beloved 832F.
Lone Wolf returns to California looking for love. 4/12. Coyotes in NYC. More. 12/12 Update.
Predators moving into cities 12/12
Efforts To Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade Will Be Stepped Up, Says Hillary Clinton 11/12
Animal Lifeboats, zoos and biodiversity.
Montana Wolverine Protection Sought By Conservationists 10/12.
A Barrier for South Texas Wildlife 10/12.
New species of monkey found 9/12.
Dogs used to find(audio and text).
Wildlife Crime: Vietnam Ranked Worst Country In New WWF Report On Animal Protection. 7.12
California Condors Still On Brink Of Extinction Due To Lead Poisoning 'Epidemic' 6.12 (Cites Slug Finkelstein).
Poachers attack reserve in DRC.
Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, is working on a new project to bring back extinct animals. From the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth, Brand explains why and how the project, "Revive and Restore," plans to bring back some extinct species.audio and text interview. 6.12. Rewilding is a UCSC idea (see Soule).
Good news for Endangered Species Day but WWF shows we've lost 30% since 1970. 5/12
Should We Move Creatures Threatened by Climate Change? 1/12
Chimps use for research outdated 12/11. a win for orangutans
Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs for the Bear (text and audio interview) 1/11
Lady Ditch Tiger Restoration Plan.
"Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity"
Shafqat Hussain, Pakistani economist and conservationist, started Project Snow Leopard, providing innovative solutions for the preservation of the elusive snow leopard.
Santa Cruz Island Fox recovery inspired novelist TC Boyle to write about it, When The Killing's Done.
Grey Wolves delisted from Endangered Species List by politicians, not scientists, being hunted.
Northern Spotted Owl Protection Plan May Harm Rival Birds 3/12
Yangtze River Dolphin Declared Extinct as of 2006
Websites/Organizations
World Wildlife Fund helps stop trade in animal parts and tracks threats from climate change, and deforestation among others.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
Bay Area organizations related to endangered species.
A seminal study last fall in Nature put climate in perspective of 10 biophysical systems crucial to human health -- and it found biodiversity loss more troubling than any other Link
Slideshow of endangered animals for World Animal Day.
Species Watch from NRDC.
Interactive
Science for Citizens is searchable. Environmental projects.
Encyclopedia of Life is an online, collaborative project where you can learn about any species on Earth, as well as contribute information and submit photos. This global initiative seeks to create an "infinitely expandable" resource for all of our planet’s 1.9 million known species.
Wildlife Watch allows you to input data and see results of others
Books
Mary Ellen Hannibal, Bay Area writer and editor focusing on science and culture and author of "The Spine of the Continent: The Most Ambitious Wildlife Conservation Project Ever Undertaken" audio interview. Spine project website, inspired by UCSC's Soule, see Slugs in Action.
From Island Press, John Terborgh and James Estes (Go Slugs!) explore importance of predators in Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. They explain how top predators play an essential role in maintaining ecosystem well-being, and how this natural regulatory system is often drastically disrupted by human interventions-when wolves and cougars are removed, for example, populations of deer and beaver become destructive. Author and conservation biologist Cristina Eisenberg offers her perspective in The Wolf's Tooth, sharing accounts from her fieldwork to bring to life the relationships among keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity. Energy Development and Wildlife Conservation in Western North America, edited by David E. Naugle.
Thinking Like a Mountain excerpts a clear and inviting introduction to the science of conservation biology from Ed Grumbine and Michael Soule's (Go Slugs!) previous book, Ghost Bears.
Joe Roman, author of the new book, “Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act.” is interviewed here
Douglas Adams. Best known for the amazing Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, he also wrote Last Chance to See about endangered animals. Intro Ch. 1 password required. Author reading about Komodo dragon encounter. Warning, some animals were harmed in the production of this book ;) NEW! at UC talk based on Last Chance experiences. The BBC has done a new series in which Stephen Frye retraces the original journey. Here are some of the original radio dispatches.
Intelligent Tinkering: Bridging the Gap between Science and Practice (The Science and Practice of Ecological Restoration Series) by Robert Jonathan Cabin
Never Cry Wolf : Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves Farley Mowat
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 12/08 Interview PBS. Short essay on Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). On Bengal Tigers
Diane Ackerman The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds
Video
Nature on PBS has great programs and resources. Search by animal.
CBS 60 Minutes frequently covers green issues, including jaguar, also elephants, a great African migration threatened by deforestation, Tasmanian Tiger and sharks.
60 Minutes Presents: Into The Wild 13 min - Sep 19, 2010 Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle. Secret language of elephants.
Night vision video from Stanford (e.g. mountain lion). UCSC cougar footage from Puma project.
Photographer Paul Nicklen found an extraordinary new friend diving under the Antarctic ice to get close to the much-feared leopard seal. Share his hilarious, passionate stories of the polar wonderlands, illustrated by glorious images of the animals who live on and under the ice. TEDtalk.
UCSC pioneered the idea of rewilding, including bringing back extinct species. This has been taken up by LongNow, and was basis of TEDx conference.
Researcher Elizabeth Murchison tells us how she's fighting to save the Tasmanian Devil, and what she's learning about all cancers from this unusual strain. (Contains disturbing images of facial cancer). TEDtalk
Bats in the Bay Area. Bats are in trouble in North America because of a disease. TEDtalk video 11/12.
Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe. Learn more at Goldman Prize.
Dmitry Lisitsyn fought to protect Sakhalin Island's critical endangered ecosystems while also demanding safety measures from one of the world's largest petroleum development projects. Learn more at Link.
Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats. Note some disturbing images.(TEDtalk). Last Lions documentary trailer
Pacific Flyway (California bird migration).
Milking the Rhino examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals. John Kasaona Conservationist TEDtalk. video of rhino airlift to save. Some populations extinct because traditional medicine thinks the horn cures cancer.
How Poachers became Caretakers TEDtalk video.
Wildlife trade for traditional medicine Hotspots (PBS Conservation Documentary). Three years in the making, this 2-part program follows Conservation International's president and author Dr. Russell A. Mittermeier on his journey to assess key biological hotspots around the world areas at greatest risk of extinction. It takes viewers to multiple locations throughout New Zealand, the United States, Peru, Brazil, Madagascar and Chile's remote Easter Island to capture the precious array of life at stake. The documentary takes a sobering yet hopeful look at conservation biology: the trench warfare, the subtle policy decisions, the slippery slopes, the unknown dimensions and the real creatures whose lives hang in the balance.Website.
Kartick Satyanran works tirelessly to save India’s wild animals from illegal captivity and poaching -- most notably rescuing hundreds of “dancing” bears. TEDtalk
Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog’s documentary on Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 summers with grizzlies in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. He felt a close affinity to the bears, and would approach and even touch them. Treadwell used film he took of the bears to raise awareness of their situation. Herzog uses Treadwell footage from the last 5 years of his life and interviews with people who knew him well to create a snapshot of a man most people can’t understand. Herzog portrays Treadwell as a disturbed individual who may have had a death wish towards the end. As you likely know, Treadwell ends up being killed and eaten by a grizzly, along with his girlfriend. Herzog’s film is moving and beautiful, and deals well with a subject most filmmakers couldn’t begin to touch.
Never Cry Wolf, based on book of same name by Farley Mowat online video segment. Wolves in Yellowstone. Also The Wolf That Changed America
Wolves at our Door. A pack of wolves are raised by the filmmakers. They explore the behaviors and social lives of the wolves. (1997, 50 min.)
Bears PBS Nature doc
Planet Earth McHenry Library DVD5143
A stunning 11-part series that captures rare action, impossible locations, and intimate moments with our planet's best-loved, wildest, and most elusive creatures. 550 min.
Winged Migration. Codirected by Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats (Paris: Galatée Films, 2001.) DVD1702
KQED Channel 9 (also available on its digital channels).
Radio interview with makers
Schedule. Hummingbirds and Raptor cam (Peregrine falcons, saved by UCSC research)
The Last Survivors website raises awareness of the last surviving Caribbean endemic land mammals and focuses conservation attention on these valuable but highly threatened species. Before humans arrived, around 120 species of land mammal (excluding bats) occurred in the Caribbean region, but many have now gone extinct, some very recently, with possibly only 15 surviving today. For two of the “Last Survivors”, the Hispaniolan solenodon and Hispaniolan hutia, a Darwin-Initiative funded project was launched in the Dominican Republic in October 2009 see also and more footage.
Audio
The world’s largest online nature sounds archive features 8,000 hours of animal noises
Wildlife in NYC Science Friday 4/12 including coyotes.
Joe Roman, author of the new book, “Listed: Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act.” is interviewed here. Co-author of "Facing Extinction: Nine Steps to Save Biodiversity".
Stewart Brand, author of Whole Earth Discipline and founder of the Whole Earth Catalog, is working on a new project to bring back extinct animals. From the passenger pigeon to the wooly mammoth, Brand explains why and how the project, "Revive and Restore," plans to bring back some extinct species.audio and text interview. 6.12.
Animal Language from RadioLab
Blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection. Also from RadioLab
Author Sy Montgomery's latest adventure took her to Mongolia to join a scientific expedition tracking snow leopards. link LOE.org
Richard Ellis, artist and author of "On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear" 12/09
Wildflower: An Extraordinary Life and Untimely Death in Africa (excerpt) Mark Seal has written a book about wildlife activist and filmmaker Joan Root. Joan Root was murdered in her home in Nairobi Kenya. audio interview with author
Tracking jaguars 6/09 images
Brent Stirton, Chronicling the Virunga Gorilla Murders
Images
Moose Peterson's book Captured: Behind the Lens of a Legendary Wildlife Photographer is more than just a photography book-it's a chronicle of more than 30 years'worth of unbelievable moments that only nature can reveal. (Google talk) video.
UCSC has produced at least three world class nature photographers: Gordon Wiltsie (NPR audio interview), Frans Lanting (a TEDtalk video), and Kennan Ward.
This koala had the worst day ever.
Jim Balog won the Rowell Award. Here he documents global warming. Photographer James Balog shares new image sequences from the Extreme Ice Survey, a network of time-lapse cameras recording glaciers receding at an alarming rate, some of the most vivid evidence yet of climate change.Link. New documentary Chasing Ice.
9 threatened animals of the Southeast.
Still images from automatic camera.
Florida's endangered speciesThe most eye-catching creature among the 60 listed is the alligator snapping turtle, a ferocious looking reptile that can get as big as 165 pounds and has a menacing hooked beak. It lives in the rivers of the state's panhandle, FWC officials reports. The snapping turtle is considered a "species of concern" as its numbers have dwindled due to fishing injury, dredging, and pollution.
Specific Species
Primates/Apes
Jane Goodall legendary primatologist and environmental educator (TEDtalk video). She is the subject of a new feature film Jane's Journey. Chimps in trouble 3/12
New species of monkey found 9/12.
Orangutans Threatened By Forest Fires And Land Clearing.
The Impenetrable Forest: My Gorilla Years in Uganda is an insider's account of life in the remote African bush as a Peace Corps volunteer by Thor Hansen. video review.
Bears
Please do feed the polar bears (or they’ll die) 2/13. LOE audio. related: Ringed, Bearded Seals Listed Under Endangered Species Act Due Partially To Climate Change Concerns 1/13
This guy is babysitting 27 orphaned bear cubs, and he could use your help 1/13
Fierce Advocate for Grizzlies Sees Warning Signs for the Bear (text and audio interview) 1/11.
Killer bears, and the humans who track them down 4/12.
Kartick Satyanran works tirelessly to save India’s wild animals from illegal captivity and poaching -- most notably rescuing hundreds of “dancing” bears. TEDtalk
Grizzly Man (2005) Werner Herzog’s documentary on Timothy Treadwell, a man who spent 13 summers with grizzlies in Katmai National Park and Preserve, Alaska. He felt a close affinity to the bears, and would approach and even touch them. Treadwell used film he took of the bears to raise awareness of their situation. Herzog uses Treadwell footage from the last 5 years of his life and interviews with people who knew him well to create a snapshot of a man most people can’t understand. Herzog portrays Treadwell as a disturbed individual who may have had a death wish towards the end. As you likely know, Treadwell ends up being killed and eaten by a grizzly, along with his girlfriend. Herzog’s film is moving and beautiful, and deals well with a subject most filmmakers couldn’t begin to touch.
Bears PBS Nature doc.
Richard Ellis, artist and author of "On Thin Ice: The Changing World of the Polar Bear" 12/09.
Big Cats
UCSC students get first-hand scientific experience while monitoring the elusive big cats as part of the Puma Project. Night vision video from Stanford (e.g. mountain lion). UCSC cougar video footage from Puma project.
India, home to the world’s largest population of wild tigers, created a new protected area for the big cats. In March, the Indian government declared the forests of Sathyamangalam Wildlife Sanctuary a Tiger Reserve. This new reserve connects two other protected areas and secures another critical piece in one of the most important and largest contiguous tiger habitats in the world. In addition to sheltering a healthy tiger population, this forest complex is home to leopards, elephants, hyenas and vultures.
Scientists: To save the lions, fence them in .
Kidnapped Ethiopian girl rescued by caring, protective lions
Snow Leopard Raw Footage: Endangered Species Caught On Camera In China (VIDEO).
Tiger Bone Wine Trade Reveals China's Two-Faced Approach To Conservancy (NSFW) 3/13.
These are the youngest wild tigers ever captured on film.
Indian State OK's Shooting Tiger Poachers 5/12
The president of the California Fish and Game Commission created a controversy by killing a mountain lion out of state. Dan Richards was lambasted by critics over a photo that shows him with a mountain lion he shot during a January visit to Idaho. Hunting mountain lions is legal in Idaho and other states but banned in California. Richards, a Republican commercial real estate developer, has maintained he will not step down from his appointed position, despite efforts to remove him by 40 members of the state Assembly, the lieutenant governor and animal rights activists...Californians who have twice voted down statewide efforts to reinstate mountain lion hunting. More 3/12
Shafqat Hussain, Pakistani economist and conservationist, started Project Snow Leopard, providing innovative solutions for the preservation of the elusive snow leopard.
Lady Ditch Tiger Restoration Plan.
The Snow Leopard by Peter Matthiessen 12/08 Interview PBS. Short essay on Arctic National Wildlife Reserve (ANWR). On Bengal Tigers.
Jaguars (video).
Beverly + Dereck Joubert live in the bush, filming and photographing lions and leopards in their natural habitat. With stunning footage (some never before seen), they discuss their personal relationships with these majestic animals -- and their quest to save the big cats from human threats. Note some disturbing images.(TEDtalk). Last Lions documentary trailer.
Tracking jaguars 6/09 images.
Empirical Proof that all cats like boxes (images).
Elephants, Hippos and Rhinos (see also videos above and Featured Stories)
Rhinos In Mozambique Likely Extinct, Expert Says; Elephants May Be Next 5/13.
Central African Republic Elephants Killed By Poachers In Dzanga-Ndoki National Park (GRAPHIC PHOTOS) 5/13. Elephant stomps on a poacher who tried to shoot him, can ya blame him?
Video of rhino relocation from WWF.
Elephant conflicts with ranchers.
2011 Elephant Poaching Surged To Record Levels, WWF Report Finds (PHOTOS).
An Indian rhino calf that lost its mother to poachers earlier this week is clinging to life with the help of conservationists, according to WWF staff assisting with its care. The 2-week-old calf is in critical condition after poachers gunned down its mother and chopped off her horn on April 2. WWF celebrated the arrival of two calves—one from the poached rhino and one from another translocated rhino—just last week. The disturbing incident marks the latest in a surge of poaching plaguing India’s Assam state, where 16 greater one-horned rhinos have been killed already this year.
Doctors save elephant’s eyesight with historic cataract operation
Poaching thrives 10/12
elephants video. Scott Pelley visits Kenya, the site of the great wildebeest migration, and looks at the threats to this natural spectacle. Secret language of elephants.
Drones to protect rhinos (video)
Raoul du Toit coordinated conservation initiatives that have helped to develop and maintain the largest remaining black rhino populations in Zimbabwe. Learn more at Goldman Prize.
Rhino poaching update 12/12.
Hippo attack video
Milking the Rhino examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals. John Kasaona Conservationist TEDtalk. video of rhino airlift to save. Some populations extinct because traditional medicine thinks the horn cures cancer.
Rhinos hunted in Viet Nam for medicine 4/12
Rhino poaching (some disturbing images). Huffpo has extensive coverage.
Birds/Raptors
College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks, falcons and other predatory birds. History of saving the falcon from DDT extinction video.
Feds give pass on bird strikes 5/13.
The oldest known wild bird, a 62-year-old albatross, just hatched a miracle baby
California Condors Still On Brink Of Extinction Due To Lead Poisoning 'Epidemic' 6.12
Fledging season for Great Horned owls means clumsy chicks on the ground at UCSC. 6.12
Condors not out of the woods yet 6/12.
Bald Eagles nesting near UCSC and at Big Bear in Southern Ca (found by 3rd graders on a field trip).
Winged Migration. Codirected by Jacques Cluzaud and Michel Debats (Paris: Galatée Films, 2001.) DVD1702
KQED Channel 9 (also available on its digital channels).
Radio interview with makers
Schedule. Hummingbirds and Raptor cam (Peregrine falcons, saved by UCSC research).
Why Feathers Matter by conservation biologist Thor Hanson. Audio interview of author of book. 9/12.
Wolves/Foxes
Lawmakers Push To Take Gray Wolf Off Endangered Species List 3/13
Lone Wolf returns to California looking for love. 4/12 Oregon grey Wolf returns to California 3/12. More. 12/12 Update.
Animals Lost in Wolf Hunts Near Yellowstone including, sadly, the beloved 832F.
Author and conservation biologist Cristina Eisenberg offers her perspective in The Wolf's Tooth, sharing accounts from her fieldwork to bring to life the relationships among keystone predators, trophic cascades, and biodiversity.
Grey Wolves delisted from Endangered Species List by politicians, not scientists, being hunted.
Wolves at our Door. A pack of wolves are raised by the filmmakers. They explore the behaviors and social lives of the wolves. (1997, 50 min.)
Never Cry Wolf, based on book of same name by Farley Mowat online video segment. Wolves in Yellowstone. Also The Wolf That Changed America.
John Terborgh and James Estes (Go Slugs!) explore importance of predators in Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. They explain how top predators play an essential role in maintaining ecosystem well-being, and how this natural regulatory system is often drastically disrupted by human interventions-when wolves and cougars are removed, for example, populations of deer and beaver become destructive.
Bats
Bats in the Bay Area. Bats are in trouble in North America because of a disease. TEDtalk video 11/12.
America's Bats on the Brink LOE.org 1/13.
Blood-sucking bats lends a startling twist to our understanding of altruism and natural selection. Also from RadioLab.
UCSC's Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science, writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant. effects of wildfires 3/13.
UCSC Research and Local Resources
(see Slugs in Action for others) as well as volunteer page
Winifred F. Frick (B.A. ENVS Porter '98), in a study published in the August 6 issue of Science, writes that a disease is spreading quickly across the northeastern U.S. and Canada and now affects seven bat species. NPR.org interview Update: NSF grant with A.M. Kilpatrick who has tracked effect of global warming on West Nile virus. Update 5/12.
Beth Shapiro, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, and her colleagues analyzed genome-wide DNA sequence data from bears, and found that polar bears are a remarkably homogeneous species with no evidence of brown bear ancestry, whereas the ABC Islands brown bears show clear evidence of polar bear ancestry. She's also working with a project within Long Now called “Revive & Restore,” which is pushing to make de-extinction a reality, starting with the fabled passenger pigeon and moving on to the woolly mammoth. See “TEDxDeExtinction” (See re-wilding in Soule below).
College 8 instructor Glenn Stewart worked on Exxon Valdez cleanup and is breeding and releasing hawks, falcons and other predatory birds. History of saving the falcon from DDT extinction video.
Bill Walton, Predatory Bird Research Group leader, was instrumental in saving the Peregrine Falcon, the fastest animal in existence, from extinction. Article on falcon comeback The history of falcon recovery is told by him in this 42 minute video.
Nathaniel Dominy helped document that he legendary "man-eating lions of Tsavo" that terrorized a railroad camp in Kenya more than a century ago likely consumed about 35 people--far fewer than popular estimates of 135 victims.
John Mock works to remove landmines and preserve wildlife in Afghanistan.
Erin Vogel studies primate population.
Marc Mangel, distinguished professor in applied mathematics and statistics discovered a continued increase of Lyme disease in the United States, once linked to a recovering deer population, may instead be explained by a decline of the red fox, along with his UCSC co-authors, A. Marm Kilpatrick, assistant professor of ecology and evolutionary biology; Taal Levi, and Chris Wilmers (see below).
James Estes and John Terborgh in a new book explore the importance of predators in Trophic Cascades: Predators, Prey, and the Changing Dynamics of Nature. They explain how top predators play an essential role in maintaining ecosystem well-being, and how this natural regulatory system is often drastically disrupted by human interventions-when wolves and cougars are removed, for example, populations of deer and beaver become destructive. classic but accessible essay on trophic cascades with Soule et al (see below). Important work on sea otters and climate change (see Wilmers).
Chris Wilmers and Terrie Williams', a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at UCSC, will team up to explore questions of puma behavior, physiology, and ecology using radio collars. Cougar GPS story. Story of Atlas, who crosses Hwy 17. UCSC students get first-hand scientific experience while monitoring the elusive big cats as part of the Puma Project.(video). In the first published results of more than three years of tracking mountain lions in the Santa Cruz Mountains, UC Santa Cruz researchers document how human fragmentation of habitat affects the predators' habits. 4/13.
UCSC Alums/Emeriti
UCSC has produced at least three world class nature photographers: Gordon Wiltsie (NPR audio interview), Frans Lanting (a TEDtalk video), and Kennan Ward.
Burney Le Boeuf has conducted extensive research on the behavioral ecology and physiology of marine mammals. In particular, he is known for his work on sharks and elephant seals, as well as their diving, foraging, and migratory behavior. While much of his research was conducted at nearby Año Nuevo Island Reserve, Le Boeuf has led expeditions to research sites throughout the world, including Mexico, Argentina, the Galapagos Islands, and Japan. He is the author of three books and more than 157 peer-reviewed articles.
Michael Soule (short bio), one of the founders of conservation biology, Paul Ehrlich's student, and currently an advocate of Rewilding, that is bringing back extinct ecosystems and even species This idea has been picked up by Stewart Brand.A Soule Interview. Co-author of Ghost Bears. tropic cascades. See also Wildlands Network, working to connect islands of bio-diversity. UCSC pioneered the idea of rewilding, including bringing back extinct species. This has been taken up by LongNow, and was basis of TEDx conference.
Local Organizations
The Wildlands Studies Program, California State University, Monterey Bay offers a series of environmental and cultural ecology field studies that we invite you to join. This year you can choose among sixteen wildlife, wildland and cultural ecology field studies searching for solutions to environmental and cultural challenges. Field studies take place in wildland locations throughout the Montana Rockies, California, Alaska, Canada, Belize, Peru, Chile, India, Thailand, Nepal, Tasmania, Argentina, Australia, Costa Rica and New Zealand. website
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