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Animal Conservation: The Species That Are Bouncing Back

Celebrate the species that are returning from the brink of extinction thanks to conservation efforts. By: Robert Lovell Humans have played a significant role in the earth’s velocious animal extinction, increasing the loss of species by 1,000 times the natural rate according to recent studies. However, successful conservation projects show us that we have the […]

Written by on February 20, 2018

Endangered Pink Pigeons Return Home to Mauritius

Pink Pigeons, endemic to the island of Mauritius, face a challenging road to recovery as conservationists begin to slowly release captive-bred individuals to the wild. On Mauritius conservationists have been working to prevent the Endangered Pink Pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) from going the way to the island’s famous Dodo. Endemic to the island and surrounding islets, […]

Written by on August 11, 2017

Could Genome Sequencing Save Mauritius’ Pink Pigeon?

Sequencing the genome of the Endangered Pink Pigeon may help protect the rare bird from a human introduced pathogen. The Pink Pigeon (Nesoenas mayeri) is an Endangered species on the Island of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The existence of the species is somewhat of a miracle considering that in the 1990’s its population fell to an alarming 10 […]

Written by on March 31, 2017