Multi-species management (MSM) specifies the development of a particular ecologically balanced assessment and operation in protecting fish and wildlife. Such protection of species and the environment that supports and sustains them relies on...

Established in 1945, the Soil and Water Conservation Society (SWCS) is a nonprofit organization that advocates the "protection, enhancement and wise use of soil, water and related natural resources." The organization was formed during an...

Conservation biology is the study of the biological diversity—biodiversity for short—of Earth. Biodiversity is the variety of different living creatures, both plants and animals. Conservation biology is a relatively new field of study,...

The idea of conservation biology as a scientific discipline with a specific application to society-at-large was brought to life in 1978 by organizers Michael Soule and Bruce Wilcox. They formalized their interest in a new conservation discipline at...

Conservation biology, or conservation ecology, is the science of analyzing and protecting Earth's biological diversity. Conservation biology draws from the biological, physical and social sciences, economics, and the practice of natural-resource...

THE FLORIDA MANATEE: BIOLOGY AND CONSERVATION. Roger L. Reep and Robert K. Bonde. University Press of Florida, Gainsville, 2006. ISBN 81302949X, 189 pp. The authors of The Florida Manatee: Biology and Conservation have worked with this charismatic and enigmatic species for several decades,...

Sinauer Associates has recently published two books intended as texts in conservation biology, Richard Primack's Essentials of conservation biology and Meffe and Carroll's Principles of conservation biology. Primack's book, which was reviewed here October 1994, is suited for introductory courses where a substantial...

The complex science of DNA analysis is now helping protect elephants by showing police and conservationists the source of black-market ivory.The price of ivory has nearly quadrupled in recent years, prompting poachers to kill more elephants to sell their tusks illegally.Protecting the giant beasts is...

With declining catches close to shore, commercial fishing is turning to deeper waters, threatening species that live in the cold and gloom of the deep oceans, according to researchers.A panel at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science said Sunday...