Conservation Biology

Celebrity Profiles

The phrase ghost fish associated with Stuart Pennebaker usually refers to a species or population that is difficult to detect, track, or count in the wild, often because it occu...

science-technology

“Endangered” has a precise meaning in conservation science. It describes a species at high risk of extinction in the wild, based on population size, decline rate, and geogra...

biodiversity-conservation

The short answer is that the Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is extinct and there is no wild population to bring back. However, advances in genetics, assisted reproduction, and d...

biodiversity-conservation

A rare snail is typically a terrestrial or aquatic mollusk species considered vulnerable, endangered, or data-deficient due to very small populations, restricted range, or limit...

Environment

The phrase "last rhino dies" typically refers to the death of the final individual of a specific rhino subspecies or species in human care or the wild. It describes an endpoint...

biodiversity-and-conservation

An extirpated species is one that has been locally eradicated from a specific area or ecosystem, even though populations of the same species persist elsewhere. Unlike global ext...