World's Smallest Deer Species Discovered By Wildlife Conservation Society
An adult deer measuring just 20 inches at the shoulder and weighing no more than 25 pounds has been confirmed through DNA testing as a new species, making it the world's smallest deer

Poachers Also Disrupt Plants
Everyone knows that poachers can decimate animals but they can also have considerable effects on plants

Pet Trade Dangers: Poaching Major Threat To Parrots
While the pet trade and conservation biologists agree that parrots are threatened by habitat loss, they disagree about the effects of poaching.

Global Warming's Effects Extend To World's Smallest Butterfly
The latest issue of Conservation Biology examines the viability of the Sinai baton blue and the results of human population pressures.

Monogamous Animals May Be More Likely To Die Out
New research reveals a surprising risk factor for extinction: monogamy.

Wildmeat: Overhunting Threatens Species And People
In many parts of the world, people are driving wild animals toward extinction by over-eating them. Saving these species is critical to protecting both biodiversity and people's food supplies. The question is how?

High dispersal in a frog species suggests that it is vulnerable to habitat fragmentation
Global losses of amphibian populations are a major conservation concern and their causes have generated substantial debate.

Severe inbreeding depression in a wild wolf (Canis lupus) population
The conservation implication for this study population is that genetic exchange with the source population should be strongly promoted.

A cryptic taxon of Galápagos tortoise in conservation peril
Results from this study demonstrate the fundamental importance of continuing taxonomic investigations to recognize biological diversity and designate units of conservation

As Africa's Human Population Grows, Wild Dogs Plummet
A combination of a natural wanderlust and bad image among humans has driven African wild dogs from nearly two thirds of their original range.

Wild Tigers Need Cat Food
A study by the Wildlife Conservation Society and U.S. Geological Survey says tigers living in one of India's best-run national parks lose nearly a quarter of their population each year from poaching and natural mortality

Countries Find Common Ground To Protect World's Rarest Gorilla
The Ministers of the environment from Nigeria and Cameroon have established an agreement to protect the Cross River gorilla.

Endangered Species Listings May Backfire: Some Private Landowners Destroy Habitat
New research confirms fears that Endangered Species Act listings do not necessarily help and may even harm rare species on private lands.

One Of The World's Rarest Rabbits Spotted In Sumatra
Hippity, hoppity…click! So went the latest appearance of one of the world’s rarest rabbits, captured on film by a camera trap in the rain forests of Indonesia, according to researchers from the Wildlife Conservation Society.

Studying Substitute Animals Will Not Save Endangered Species
An article in the latest issue of Conservation Biology examines the use of surrogate animals to predict or target what is endangering another species.

Jaguar Conservation Spotty
New research shows that the jaguar is in trouble in two-thirds of its historic range.

Theory and Design of Nature Reserves
The first task in designing a reserve must be to decide what that reserve is for - an example of my ``If you don't know where you're going you'll probably end up somewhere else'' principle.

Species Interactions and Biodiversity Conservation
In the last couple of lectures we've begun to explore some of the ways in which a single-species focus on conservation is incomplete.

Systematics and endangered species conservation
Systematics is the science of diversity, and if we are concerned about the loss of diversity one might think that it would be a major contributor to the theory and practice of conservation biology.

New Parks To Protect Animals Seen As Feasible
An article in the September 2006 issue of BioScience, the monthly journal of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), provides some rare good news for conservation biologists.