Animal Conservation - Page 19

A combination of climate change and habitat loss caused a range wide decline of nearly 4% per year between 1985 and 2013.

“wildlife TV shows are the reason many of us fight for wildlife in the first place”.

When I talk of being a conservationist, one of the most common assumptions is that I am also somewhat of an ecological hippy.

Fishers in Northern California were five times more likely to die from poisoning than predation compared to fishers in the southern Sierra Nevada.

By 2010 there were around 81,000 left, but this year marked the start of the saiga die-offs.

The subject of driven grouse shooting is a controversial one. In current times the shooting fraternity finds itself besieged with calls for an all out ban on driven grouse shooting and barely a day passes with the topic not broached on social media.

Though welcomed by farmers, the decision to implement such large scale lethal control on Islay has proven controversial and has been met with scorn by conservation bodies, recently prompting both the WWT and RSPB to take the issue to the European Commission in the hope of halting the plans.

Chinese measures to protect this conservation icon have also benefited a number of other threatened species, including birds, mammals and amphibians.

Illegal logging is having serious impacts – not just on the forests themselves – but on the animals. It’s reasonable to assume that if the birds are being this powerfully impacted, it’s impacting other groups, such as mammals, reptiles, amphibians and arthropods.