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Keyword - Conservation

- Indian neutrino lab site rejected
  
  Nilgiri location threatens important elephant habitat.
  
  24 November 2009
- Efforts to sustain biodiversity fall short - Premium content
  
  But the issue is gaining attention as nations prepare for next year's summit.
  
  18 November 2009
- Biodiversity: Biodiversity's bright spot
  
  While species losses mount worldwide, conservationists in Brazil have made great strides towards saving the golden lion tamarin and its forest habitat from destruction. Gene Russo reports.
  
  18 November 2009
- Biodiversity: Putting a price on nature - Premium content
  
  Gretchen Daily knows the value of ecosystems — but can ascribing financial worth to them help to maintain biodiversity? Emma Marris meets an ecosystem-services evangelist.
  
  18 November 2009
- Conservation biology: Reflecting the past
  
  Unsatisfied with merely halting environmental destruction, some conservationists are trying to reconstruct ecosystems of the past. Emma Marris travels back in time with the rewilders.
  
  4 November 2009
- US habitat rule threatens species - Premium content
  
  Conservationists call for change to Bush-era definition of 'endangered'.
  
  3 November 2009
- Biodiversity: Rack and field - Premium content
  
  Ecologists have struggled to reconcile what they see in the lab and in the wild. But both views are needed to understand the effects of extinction, finds Virginia Gewin.
  
  19 August 2009
- Ecology: Ragamuffin Earth - Premium content
  
  A small group of ecologists is looking beyond the pristine to study the scrubby, feral and untended. Emma Marris learns to appreciate 'novel ecosystems'.
  
  22 July 2009
- Shy animals skew population estimates - Premium content
  
  Sampling methods may capture more daring fish and birds.
  
  12 June 2009
- Basking sharks run for the sun - Premium content
  
  Satellite tags solve mystery of huge disappearing fish.
  
  7 May 2009