How to Put Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management Into Practice
Overview Over decades of international negotiation, the nations of the world have committed to the sustainable management of fisheries and protection of marine ecosystems. Multiple treaties and conventions require fishery managers to account for the impact of fishing activity on the health of the entire ecosystem, not just targeted fish stocks. To effectively translate these […]
Cardiac arrests, horns and 1.4 tonnes of muscle: here’s how to move a rhino – in pictures | Environment
The Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has successfully translocated 21 eastern black rhinos to a region where they have been extinct for 50 years. Here’s how they caught, transported and released these critically endangered creatures to their new home Photos by Ami Vitale Main image: The operation not only underscores Kenya’s conservation triumph but also signifies […]
Scientists Have Been Freezing Corals for Decades. Now They’re Learning How to Wake Them Up
This story originally appeared in Hakai and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Arah Narida leans over a microscope to gaze into a plastic petri dish containing a hood coral. The animal—a pebbled blue-white disk roughly half the size of a pencil eraser—is a marvel. Just three weeks ago, the coral was smaller than […]