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Island Conservation
WIRED features GBIRd and Island Conservation Project Director Karl Campbell in an article about the potential for gene drives to help prevent extinctions of island species. By: Emma Marris KARL CAMPBELL IS a craftsman bedeviled by bad tools. He’s a middle-aged, medium-size, muscular Australian with a five-day beard and an intense gaze who seems perpetually […]
Scientific American delves into the need for advances in transformative conservation technology and the hope GBIRd may provide for native island species. Floreana Island, like many islands around the world, was once a thriving ecosystem filled with species found nowhere else on Earth. But the introduction of invasive predators has now altered the ecosystem and […]
In the race against extinction, conservationists need new technologies to scale up restoration efforts. One such potential technology is gene drive. An article published in Audubon Magazine provides insight on a potential new tool for conservation–gene drive–and its potential to enhance island restoration efforts. Island Conservation is working within a partnership–Genetic Biocontrol of Invasive Rodents (GBIRd)–to […]
An article published in The Scientist highlights research on a potential new tool for conservation. Introduced, damaging (invasive) rodents have invaded an estimated ninety percent of our world’s island archipelagos. Eradication of invasive rodents from islands can yield significant conservation benefits. More than a thousand island invasive species eradications have already taken place around the […]