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The recently lost President George H.W. Bush promotes waterfowl conservation and the Duck Stamp for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in this 1991 Public Service Announcement.I was stoked to partner with the brilliant Lucy Gem Poley to create a graphical abstract about our study describing the Reticulated Siren and I hope you will also check out this blog post written by Sean Graham and I that tells you all about the story behind the science: www.livingalongsidewildlife.com/2018/12/song-of-siren-story-behind-how-we-found.html.
I LOVE Salamanders. Here’s a new species!!!Big News! My colleagues and I have been working on this for a decade and I’m excited to announce it’s official: meet the Reticulated Siren, a “new” species of salamander from southern Alabama and northwestern Florida. This thing is a beast and can reach a couple feet long at least making it one of the biggest amphibians in the world. We hope this study brings attention to this family of amphibians and sparks interest in further studies to finally get a comprehensive understanding of their biology. Time to update the field guides! Link to study here: journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207460.
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Top photos courtesy of Pierson Hill. #salamander #salamanders #salamandersofinstagram #amphibian #amphibians #amphibiansofinstagram #amphibiansofig #siren #sirenreticulata #herpetology #herpetologist #wildlife #wildlife_seekers #wildlifeonearth #wildlifebiologist #wildlifebiology #alongsidewild #livingalongsidewildlife #conservation #conservationbiology #taxonomy #newspeciesabcnews4.com/news/local/judge-stops-plan-to-end-red-wolf-protections-usfws-extends-review-of-reco...
Judge stops plan to end red wolf protections, USFWS extends review of recovery program
abcnews4.com
A federal judge has stopped a plan to relax endangered species protections for the red wolf in eastern North Carolina. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced Thursday, Nov. 29, it will continue to review its red wolf recovery program following a judge's ruling earlier in November."In the United States, scientists recently found the population of monarch butterflies fell by 90 percent in the last 20 years, a loss of 900 million individuals; the rusty-patched bumblebee, which once lived in 28 states, dropped by 87 percent over the same period. With other, less-studied insect species, one butterfly researcher told me, “all we can do is wave our arms and say, ‘It’s not here anymore!’ ” Still, the most disquieting thing wasn’t the disappearance of certain species of insects; it was the deeper worry, shared by Riis and many others, that a whole insect world might be quietly going missing, a loss of abundance that could alter the planet in unknowable ways."
www.nytimes.com/2018/11/27/magazine/insect-apocalypse.html