Press Releases from Wild Nature Institute (2 total)

How Does Saving A Wildebeest Migration Help Giraffes? by Monica L. Bond • Understanding interactions among species assists wildlife conservation. • The seasonal presence of thousands of migratory wildebeests reduces local lion predation on giraffe calves, resulting in greater survival of giraffes. • Conservation of disappearing migratory wildlife has positive ripples throughout the ecosystem. ARUSHA, Tanzania, October 25, 2016 – Animal migrations are among the world’s most awe-inspiring natural phenomena. This complex behaviour includes repeated, long-distance, seasonal…

Monica Bond has spent the past 15 years studying spotted owls and forest fire. This week, Bond published an article summarizing existing science about what happens to spotted owls when forests burn, in the hope of averting a major US forest management policy disaster. The US Forest Service manages 11 million acres of public forest land in California's Sierra Nevada. The Forest Service has a new California spotted owl conservation strategy…