A key challenge of the coming decades is increasing agricultural productivity while
maintaining environments that optimize ecosystem service provisioning. Crop pests are a …

Translocations are the human-mediated movements of living organisms for conservation
and non-conservation purposes. Conservation translocations have become popular and …

Translocations (deliberate movement and release of wildlife) have been of crucial
importance in the management of New Zealand threatened birds, and as part of site …

Understanding the effects climate change may have on animal populations relies on
establishing which environmental conditions shape their behaviour and subsequent …

In a biodiversity conservation exercise a native raptor has been reintroduced to
Marlborough, a wine-growing area in New Zealand's South Island, on the assumption that …

Human activities are altering ecosystems and threatening the well-being of wildlife. The
study of the stressful effects of human disturbances on animal distribution, physiology and …

Abstract The Mauritius Kestrel Falco punctatus, once the rarest kestrel worldwide, became
an icon of bird conservation after it recovered from four to six individuals in 1974 to some …

An ornithologist's personal look at farming practices that finds practical solutions for
sustainable food production compatible with bird and wildlife conservation With predictions …

Apex predators often have strong effects on populations of prey, and other predators.
Research on predator interactions has mostly focused on closely related assemblages …

Inheriting behavioral patterns culturally (ie by learning from parents) rather than genetically
is considered an integral part of individual development for many bird and mammal species …