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  Regina Sinsky

  

  Biodiversity is a social construct

  Vox - Clare Fieseler

  In 2017, an evolutionary biologist named R. Alexander Pyron ignited controversy with a Washington Post commentary titled “We don’t need to save endangered species. Extinction is part of evolution.” He wrote: “Conserving a species we have helped to kill off, but on which we are not directly …

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  Regina Sinsky

  

  A bizarre side effect of global warming? Shrinking animals

  Vox - Benji Jones

  One fall morning in 1978, David Willard, an ornithologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, walked to the nearby McCormick Place convention center — a hulking structure along Lake Michigan — to look for dead birds. He’d received a tip that birds were crashing into the building’s many windows on their …

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  Regina Sinsky

  

  Wild Cheetahs To Be Reintroduced In India For First Time In 50 Years

  whiskeyriff.com - Brett Stayton·

  If all goes according to plan, the worlds fastest land animal will soon be running wild in India for the first time in more than 50 years. According …

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  Regina Sinsky

  

  Groups call for reintroduction of jaguars in US Southwest

  Associated Press - By Susan Montoya Bryan

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Environmental groups and scientists with two universities want U.S. wildlife managers to consider reintroducing jaguars to the American Southwest. In a recently published paper, they say habitat destruction, highways and existing segments of the border wall mean that natural …

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  Regina Sinsky

  

  Reuters

  Apr 27, 2021
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  Regina Sinsky

  

  Here's what killed one of the last whales of newly discovered Gulf of Mexico species

  nola.com - Tristan Baurick

  An exceedingly rare and mysterious whale species recently found to live only in the Gulf of Mexico faces big threats from some big industries. But it …