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The zoologist tracking an island’s rebirth

How horses and cows are enticing skylarks and starlings back to an island meadow.
  1. Virginia Gewin

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Lilla Lovász studying large grazers in nature reserves in France, just north of Basel, Switzerland

Lilla Lovász is a PhD student in zoology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. Credit: Clara Tuma for Nature

Just inside France’s border with Germany, enclosed between the Rhine River and the Grand Canal of Alsace, lies an island that is becoming a haven for biodiversity. The site, to the north of Basel, Switzerland, is being made into a conservation area in a joint project between the National Nature Reserve of the Petite Camargue and the French energy company EDF. The aim is to create a self-sustaining mosaic of forest and meadows that can host many species of flora and fauna.

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Nature 588, 530 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03522-8

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