Birds & Birding
Prairie chickens were once so abundant in the Great Plains that they were hunted for the market and shipped by the trainload to New York City. Could prairie restoration bring them booming back?
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
Birds & Birding
The Explainer
Explainer
The word’s most widely used insecticides are likely causing widespread declines in bird and insects populations.
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Tim is a senior conservation geographer at The Nature Conservancy. Working in international conservation science for the past 16 years, he has used remote sensing and geographic information science to assess habitat condition, protection, and threats. He has conducted field assessments on six continents, applying spatial analyses to a wide range of conservation issues ranging from marine spawning aggregations in Belize to global land-cover analysis.
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