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Wildlife

Are wildlife populations improving?

October 3, 2022

According to the Our World in Data article Wild mammals are making a comeback in Europe thanks to conservation efforts by Hannah Ritchie (9/27/2022) many mammal populations have increased as the chart shows. The Eurasian beaver is thrilled: The Eurasian beaver has made the most remarkable recovery. It’s estimated to have increased …

How much have cod catches in Eastern Canada changed?

October 21, 2021

Our World in Data has an extensive post on Fish and Overfishing by Hannah Ritchie and Max Roser (first published Oct 2021). Here is one excerpt from this article: In the chart here we see five centuries of cod catch in Eastern Canada.1 These fishing records date back to the year …

Where are fish going?

November 9, 2020

The Climate.gov article In search of cooler waters, marine species are shifting northward or diving deeper by John Dos Passos Coggin (4/3/2020) explains: The graphs show the annual change in latitude and depth of 140 marine species along the northeastern U.S. coast and in the eastern Bering Sea. Changes in …

Why should we care about insects?

February 14, 2019

The Guardian article, Plummeting insect numbers ‘threaten collapse of nature’ by Damian Carrington (2/10/19) reports on the recent Biological Conservation paper Worldwide decline of the entomofauna: A review of its drivers by Francisco Sánchez-Bayo and Kris A.G.Wyckhuys (1/20/19). More than 40% of insect species are declining and a third are endangered, …

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