conservation biology
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To ease the deadly traffic jams, George, the director of whale conservation biology at the Marine Mammal Center in Sausalito, Calif., and other researchers are deploying whale-breath detectors powered by artificial intelligence.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Given their small numbers, killing a pack of 10 animals would harm the population's genetic diversity, said Mathew Crowther, professor of quantitative conservation biology at the University of Sydney.
From Barron's • Jan. 28, 2026
One of the premises of conservation biology is that all species have value.
From Salon • Apr. 23, 2025
"The unfortunate reality in conservation biology is that a lot of the species that get attention and funding are charismatic megafauna that people see on TV or in zoos," she said.
From Science Daily • Nov. 25, 2024
“I made this error of doing economics and policy, instead of what I was really interested in, which was the animals. I could have done conservation biology, but I was too intimidated by the ‘ology.’”
From New York Times • Oct. 6, 2022
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