Challenges of Compassionate Conservation

Promoting predators and compassionate conservation.

New challenges for conservation

Lamins A and C lend stiffness to the cell nucleus but are not expressed in stem cells until gastrulation. Therefore, stem cell nuclei are physically much less stiff than differentiated cells. This property may make it easier for stem cells to migrate, adopt different shapes, and remodel nuclear DNA. David Pajerowski et al. characterized nuclear deformation in stem cells and an epithelial analog...

Challenges for freshwater invertebrate conservation

Freshwater invertebrate conservation faces 5 important challenges. First, ;10,000 species of freshwater invertebrates around the world may already be extinct or imperiled. Second, human pressures on freshwater resources are intense and will increase in the coming decades, putting yet more species at risk. Third, scientific knowledge about freshwater invertebrates, although substantial and usefu...

Challenges and Opportunities and Conservation

Knight, B., Moller, H., Bradley, S. & Davies, M. 2008 (31 :xi): Austral seabirds: challenges and opportunities for research and conservation. Papers andProceedings ofthe Royal Society ofTasmania 142(1): 1-8. ISSN 0080-4703. Centre for the Study ofAgriculture, Food and Environment, University ofOtago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, New Zealand (BK, HM*), Department of Biological Sciences and Biotechno...

Grand challenges in conservation research

One of the privileges and responsibilities accorded to Specialty Chief Editors in the Frontiers journals, at the commencement of new specialty sections, is to provide an overview of potential research directions for the specialization in the form of a challenge statement. There is, however, a tight restriction on this prerogative: specifically, a limit of 2000 words. For the very practical and ...