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UCSC NRS director appointed to endowed chair
Gage Dayton, director of the UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves, has been appointed to the Wilton W. Webster Jr. Presidential Chair for the UC Santa Cruz Natural Reserves. The endowed chair was established in 2015 with a $500,000 gift from the Helen and Will Webster Foundation and matching funds from the UC Regents. Read more >>
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The frogs are all right
After decades of decline, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frogs are jumping back into the game. A new analysis of frog surveys in Yosemite National Park by Roland Knapp of the NRS's Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Lab and colleagues finds that the frog is making a comeback in the mountain lakes where it was common twenty years ago. The chytrid fungus decimating amphibians around the world did not spare park frogs. But experiments suggest frog populations not extirpated by the disease have emerged with resistance. Read more >>
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World Conservation Congress
Conservationists from more than 184 countries met in Hawaii to share ideas, get inspired, and pass international resolutions to keep our globe healthy for both people and wildlife. Held in the United States for the first time, the World Conservation Congress attracted more than 9,000 attendees to the island of Oahu. The NRS was there to showcase its participation in global conservation programs. The plight of island nations and species facing climate change, the establishment of the world's largest marine reserve in the northwestern Hawaiian Islands, and the need to set aside far more of the world's oceans for conservation were a few of the major themes explored at the conference. The conference can already claim one notable success: the resolution to halt trafficking of a scaly mammal called the pangolin has already led to an international ban on the pangolin trade.
"One canoe, one island, one planet"
Chanted blessings, traditional Hawaiian hula, and the gathering of thousands of attendees kicked off the spectacular opening ceremonies.
A conservation emergency
Leaders ranging from Sylvia Earle to EO Wilson to the Prime Minister of Tuvalu call for action at this planetary tipping point.
Sighted at the conservation crossroads
Scenes of art, experience, and discovery at the congress.
The UC Natural Reserve System: Understanding for California, Conservation for the World poster
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ReWild Mission Bay
San Diego has lost virtually all of its original wetlands to development. A coalition of conservationists now seeks to rehabilitate 170 acres of shoreline habitat in the bay. The NRS's Kendall-Frost Mission Bay Marsh Reserve will serve as the nucleus of this effort to open up more wetlands to the public via boardwalks and return native marsh plants and waterbirds to disturbed lands. Read more >>
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