EcoHealth Alliance (formerly Wildlife Trust) has launched a new program called PetWatch, a first-of-its-kind mobile-friendly website that guides consumers to make informed decisions about exotic pets. Rooted in scientific research on global wildlife trade, PetWatch provides rankings for the Best, Fair and Worst choices of exotic pets for the well being of your family and the environment.
Switzer supported the development of PetWatch with a Collaborative Grant to Fellows Kate Smith (2004) and...
This year's Switzer Fellows' New England Spring Retreat was held in Groton and Fitchburg, Massachusetts. We started the weekend by watching the documentary film, The Work of 1000, which chronicles the story of citizen activist Marion Stoddart as she jump-started the efforts to clean up the Nashua River - formerly one of the most polluted rivers in the U.S. We also heard from other local activists, river scientists and municipal officials about ongoing efforts to connect the Fitchburg community with its river. Special thanks to our Switzer Fellows planning team for developing the...
These images were captured in the Mendocino National Forest in Califoria as part of a study on black-tail deer survival. The study targets understanding how predation and habitat quality and spatial arrangement contribute to deer survival in order to manage mammal populations in a changing world. Tavis Forrester and his team use the cameras to get a relative density of predator species in fawning areas to determine if this density affects survival probability for deer fawns. This helps identify habitat characteristics that may increase or decrease predation risk and also explore the possibility of whether individual predators are targeting fawns.
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The World Resources Institute (WRI) and Advanced Conservation Strategies (ACS) have been working to develop a pilot conservation marketplace for the gopher tortoise in its non-federally-listed range of the Southeast United States. The pilot is intended to serve as a model for “advance mitigation” markets for candidate species—a concept that has gained considerable attention nationwide as a potential conservation and conflict resolution strategy for species like the sage grouse and lesser prairie chicken, and that is the subject of proposed rulemaking by the US Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS).
In this webinar, Todd Gartner of WRI and Josh Donlan of ACS, introduce their work to-...
