Ecological islands can help bring species back from the brink of extinction. New Zealand’s Department of Conservation created pest free island refuges for some of New Zealand’s most endangered fauna, including Malherbe’s parakeet (Cyanoramphus malherbi) read on to find out how its going.
Posts under ‘Conservation’
Small forage fish: food for fish, pets or people?
A significant quantity of all fish caught are used for ‘non-human-food’ purposes. What are these ‘non-human-food’ purposes?
Fish are used for two main purposes that do not relate to human food.
Watch a microdoc on the minke whale population
Dr Steve Palumbi of Stanford University in the USA is putting together a series of MICRODOCS. They’re pretty interesting so I thought I’d promote them here and encourage you to check them out.
Is Japan’s whale hunt sustainable?
For the last 3 days the news headlines have been blazoned with images of the collision that occurred between New Zealand’s Ady Gil and the Japanese whaling vessel, Shonan Maru 2. The crew of the Ady Gil were on a campaign with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society to close down Japan’s whaling operations in the [...]
