Tag: climate change

• Environmental Monitoring With the Help of Birds

  While climate change and global warming are an ongoing cause for concern, monitoring the environment is a costly and time consuming activity for conservationists to carry out without help from ...

• Conservation Crossing Borders

  Climate change is an issue that has been discussed the world over and is of great concern. As climates begin to shift and weather patterns begin to change, so does nature. Wildlife are forced to ...

• Jekyll Island To Host National Bird Education Gathering

  Like flocks of gulls converging on a rocky point, more than a hundred bird educators and enthusiasts are due to flock to Jekyll Island for the 2009 Bird Education Network National Gathering from ...

• Bird Breeding Season: The Good News And The Bad News

  The RSPB has been particularly excited, and also perplexed, at the highs and lows in bird populations this breeding season. On the one hand, it appears that many of their conservation efforts ...

• Britain’s Bitterns Respond Positively to Conservation Efforts

  Considered to be on the brink of extinction in Britain just over a decade ago, the bittern has made a remarkable come-back, with the species enjoying its best recorded nesting season in the ...

• Brown Pelican Numbers Hit Record High in the Farallones

  The Farallon Islands, located in the Gulf of the Farallones off the coast of San Francisco, California, around 32 kilometers south of Point Reyes, are home to a growing number of Brown Pelicans ...

• Climate Changes Affect Bird Populations in Europe

  Terms such as global warming, carbon footprint and climate change are becoming part of every day vocabulary as people become more aware of the far reaching consequences of mankind’s ...

• One in Eight Birds in Danger of Extinction

  According to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), one in eight bird species is currently facing extinction. The most recent update of the Red List of threatened bird ...

• Experts Estimate Birds Will Be Grossly Affected By Global Warming

  According to recent research and data, as many as 20-30% of all animal species will be at an increased risk of extinction if temperatures continue to rise. Experts estimate that an increase of ...