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unusual facts about conservation biology



Confessions of an Eco-Warrior

EF originally mixed innovative publicity, such as rolling a plastic "crack" down Glen Canyon Dam, with far-reaching wilderness proposals that went far beyond what the mainstream environmental groups were willing to advocate, and with conservation biology research from a biocentric perspective.

Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology

It is the first institute in the United Kingdom to award undergraduate and postgraduate degrees and diplomas in the fields of Conservation, Eco-tourism, and Biodiversity Management.

European wildcat

In 2012, conservationists reported discovering previously unknown populations of Scottish wildcats living in the Cairngorms National Park, but still threatened because of crossbreeding with domestic and feral cats.

Georgina Mace

In 2000, Professor Mace became Science Director of the Institute of Zoology in London, during this time, Professor Mace was instrumental in developing the criteria for listing species in the IUCN Red List, the most comprehensive inventory on the conservation status of the world's species species conservation contributing to the maintenance of global biodiversity and managed by IUCN.


see also

ECCB

European Congress of Conservation Biology, a scientific conference on biodiversity and Conservation Biology

Hugh Possingham

He co-developed the Marxan software for systematic conservation planning, which is considered "the most significant contribution to conservation biology to emerge from Australia's research community".

LuEsther Mertz

In 1980, Dennis Murphy and Paul Ehrlich of the Center for Conservation Biology named a subspecies of the Edith's Checkerspot butterfly, Euphydryas editha luestherae, in her honor.

Michael Condrey

The following year, his senior thesis on applying biotechnology to conservation biology was published in the Journal of Molecular Ecology.

Richard Grove

His interdisciplinary training includes a BA in Geography from Oxford University (1979), MSc in Conservation Biology from University College London (1980) and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (1988).