some general conservation info - late May 2012

If you've never made yourself aware of the Wildlands Project/Wildlands Network, try going to their website to learn more about a critical, emerging conservation initiative. To learn more about the need for "connectivity" in wildlife habitat, read an abstract of a paper that describes research on this topic here. Read more on this topic here.

Keep up-to-date on some conservation biology research at these links:
Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute
Edward Grey Institute

Summer Tanager by D. Sherony (Wikimedia Commons)

Society for Conservation Biology

changes to status for some of Canada's birds, plus new book on the birds of Canada

Go to this link to learn about the changing status of some of Canada's birds. Some species have recently been re-evaluated. Then click here to learn about a new book about Canada's birds.