Love Fireflies? Here's How You Can Help Scientists Save Them. Despite their luminescent glow, lightning bugs have remained a conservation mystery until relatively recently. Now researchers are relying on community science to track the beloved beetles.

Love #Fireflies? Here’s How You Can Help Scientists Save Them.

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A group of zebras stand together in a grassy field.

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🌎 Etosha National Park, Namibia
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Firefly on a flower stalk. CREDIT: TESS RENUSCH, NWF

Firefly-Friendly Gardening

It's estimated that one in three firefly species may be at risk of extinction, but you can help them in your garden!

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Geospatial assessment of habitat degradation and climate impacts on migratory crane habitat in Pakistan's Wetland ecosystems The study was carried out in the Bannu and Lakki Marwat districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), Pakistan’s province (Fig. 1). Both are located in a hot, semi-arid temperature zone and are connected to the Indus Flyway, which is a key crane migration path28. The 1,227 km² Bannu District is roughly 190 km south of Peshawar and is situated between latitudes 32°16′N and 33°5′N and longitudes 70°23′E and 71°16′E29. The Kurram and Gambila (Tochi) Rivers drain it, creating a basin that sustains seasonal wetlands that are essential to migratory birds28. With altitudes between 200 and 300 m, it is located close to 32.161°N, 70.191°E and is bounded by Isakhel (Punjab), Waziristan, Bannu, and Karak. With the Kurram and Tochi Rivers flowing through it and joining the Indus River, the district is made up of flat plains and outlying hills. Hot, dry summers (35–48 °C), mild winters (4–27 °C), little precipitation (290–350 mm), and frequent dust storms in May–June are characteristics of the climate. Because of their wetlands, croplands, and riverine ecosystems, both districts are important migratory crane stopping and wintering habitats, particularly for the Demoiselle Crane and Eurasian Crane18. Data types and source Landsat satellite images with a spatial resolution of...

Geospatial assessment of habitat degradation and climate impacts on migratory crane habitat in Pakistan's Wetland ecosystems
->Nature | More on "Crane habitat loss in Pakistan" at BigEarthData.ai | #Habitat #Ecosystem #Water #Wetland #Climate

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Secretive jungle cats need habitats outside protected areas: study Jungle cats (Felis chaus) are found across diverse habitats, from grasslands and wetlands to deserts. They’re present across Asia, with large populations in India and Nepal, among others. The IUCN Red List lists the species as being of ‘least concern’. This has led to a “misconception that they are doing fine”, Kathan Bandyopadhyay, a postdoctoral research associate at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, said. Jungle cats’ populations are in fact considered to be shrinking. In India, they are protected under Schedule II of the Indian Wildlife (Protection) Act 1972, which means hunting or trading them is illegal. Despite being the most widespread of India’s small cats, jungle cats are understudied and have received little conservation attention relative to larger carnivores such as tigers and leopards. Conservation baseline This animal — with a white muzzle, yellow irises, large ears ending in black tufts, and the sometimes faint striping on its long legs — avoids dense forests and heavily-modified landscapes, preferring agro-pastoral and open habitats, according to a new study based on the largest dataset on the species in India. The study was published in Scientific Reports, and provides a baseline for future conservation planning. “Until now, we didn’t know about their...

Secretive jungle cats need habitats outside protected areas: study
->The Hindu | More on "Jungle cats habitat conservation study" at BigEarthData.ai | #ProtectedArea #Habitat #Ecosystem

#Habitat loss is:
a machine entering a forest before dawn
a nest shaking in a branch while the tree is cut from below
babies who don't know how to fly
a mother flushed from cover in March
a nest that has stopped shaking
the crew moving to the next tree
constant, mostly because we aren't looking

The Habits and Habitats of 'Living Fossils' Nautilus and Allonautilus Newswise — Nautilus and Allonautilus cephalopods and their extinct ancestors have been drifting through the mesophotic zone of the ocean for more than 500 million years. Researchers have spent the last 40 years trying to understand how these mysterious "living fossils" thrive in areas with limited nutrients. In a recent paper published in Scientific Reports, a UW-led team documented new habits and habitats for current Nautilus and Allonautilus species. These creatures appear to live in deeper water than their extinct cousins did, and the younger ones live twice as deep as the fully mature adults. Nautilus and Allonautilus species scavenge their food and never stop moving. While a few species migrate hundreds of meters down at dawn and then back up at dusk every day, the team found that most species aren't quite as intrepid. The researchers also describe a new population of Allonautilus in waters off the island New Britain, one of several populations thriving due to hunting restrictions inspired in part by research efforts from this team. For more information, contact senior author Peter Ward, UW professor of both biology and Earth and space sciences, at argo@uw.edu...

The Habits and Habitats of 'Living Fossils' Nautilus and Allonautilus
->Newswise | More on "Nautilus living fossils ocean habitats" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ecosystem #Habitat

Over a million citizen scientists map "invisible highways of the sky", revealing critical habitats spanning 56 countries Citizen scientists have conceived an online tool to map entire annual journeys of migratory bird species across the Americas. The new tool unveiled at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP15) to the Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), mapped 89 highly vulnerable migratory bird species to provide governments, scientists and conservationists a perspective for focusing on taking urgently needed action to protect them. The tool — Americas Flyway Atlas, also known as ‘Invisible highways of the sky’ — developed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology identifies critical breeding locations and stopovers of these migratory birds that are facing growing pressure owing to habitat loss, expanding infrastructure and climate change. The Americas flyway stretches from the Canadian Arctic to Chile’s Patagonia. At least 622 migratory bird species depend on a fragile chain of habitats that encompasses 56 countries and experiencing rapid decline. They include 437 landbirds, 183 waterbirds and 62 seabirds. The tool maps some of the most iconic and ecologically important migrant bird species classified as Vulnerable or Near Threatened under the ICUN Red List including Buff-breasted Sandpiper (Calidris subruficollis), Semipalmated Sandpiper (Calidris pusilla), Cerulean Warbler (Setophaga cerulea), Andean Flamingo (Phoenicoparrus andinus) and Hudsonian Godwit...

Over a million citizen scientists map "invisible highways of the sky", revealing critical habitats spanning 56 countries
->Down To Earth | More on "Migratory bird habitat mapping tool" at BigEarthData.ai | #Habitat #Ecosystem #Science

Evaluating the impact of anthropogenic activities and climate change on distribution dynamics and habitat suitability of Lophira alata in Nigeria Biodiversity loss has intensified in recent times due to both climatic and non-climatic factors such as anthropogenic activities1,2,3,4. Consequently, many species have evolved physiological adjustments (e.g., changes in reproductive rates) and adaptive capacities at global and local scales5,6,7,8. While species occupying broad ecological niches may maintain stable populations despite exposure to diverse environmental and human pressures, those with narrow distributions, particularly habitat specialists and endemic species, are far more vulnerable to population decline and extinction risk9,10,11. This raises important questions: Which climatic and non-climatic factors strongly predict species distributions? How reliable are projections of climatically suitable areas? And does the global IUCN conservation assessment accurately reflect local conservation status? However, limited knowledge of species’ actual distribution ranges and their interactions with environmental drivers complicates accurate assessments of conservation status, especially for taxa with high conservation priority, economic importance, or narrow distributional ranges. Addressing these knowledge gaps through integrative approaches, such as Species Distribution Modeling (SDMs) combined with ground-truthing field assessments, is essential for strengthening species conservation and management within their native ranges. SDM is a statistical approach used to predict suitable habitats for species by relating their distribution records to environmental and/or anthropogenic predictor variables12,13,14,15,16. Among the many available SDM...

Evaluating the impact of anthropogenic activities and climate change on distribution dynamics and habitat suitability of Lophira alata in Nigeria
->Nature | More on "Climate change threatens Nigerian biodiversity" at BigEarthData.ai | #Ecosystem #Habitat #ClimateChange #Sustainability

L'aspect #bioclimatique de l’ #habitat #vernaculaire - #EPFL: www.epfl.ch/labs/lasur/w...

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Palm oil clearing advances in Bornean orangutan habitat despite red flags JAKARTA — A palm oil company is ramping up its destruction of forests that are home to critically endangered orangutans in a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve on the island of Borneo, according to satellite im...

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#Japan sets number of bears to be captured by FY2026 japantoday.com/category/national/japan-...

Destroy #natural #habitat - destroy #natural food source - get upset when #NativeAnimals come in search of food because they are […]

Experimental evidence of changing #habitat use and activity of native #prey during invasive #mesopredator population control zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #feralcats #invasivespecies #nativespecies #conservation @wileyecology.bsky.social

Night-lit advertising banners can function as novel microhabitats for #geckos, influencing #habitat use in urban environments zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #urbanecology #reptiles #ALAN #lightpollution @elissazcameron.bsky.social @uhl-lab.bsky.social @amcell.bsky.social

I’m grateful to the legislators who voted to approve the Wetland Protection Act & send it to the full IL House of Representatives! Wetlands provide many benefits, like habitat, flood mitigation, water filtration & aquifer recharge.

Let’s protect wetlands with the WPA! #wetlands #habitat #water 🌎

'It's like flowers on steroids': what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? | Endangered habitats

'It's like flowers on steroids': what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife meadow by 2C? | Endangered habitats
->The Guardian | More on "Rocky Mountain meadow warming experiment" at BigEarthData.ai | #Habitat #Wildlife #Ecosystem #Science

Civadière de la chatte

La civadière est un espace public où les animaux, notamment les oiseaux, peuvent vivre et se reproduire librement. Elle favorise la biodiversité et permet à chacun d'observer la faune dans son habitat naturel. #espace #animaux #biodiversite #observer #habitat

Look at this Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (Polioptila caerulea) down in these shrubs! This represents one of the common habitat types for this species across much of the continental USA and Mexico. #birds #photography #nature #habitat

Dactylissus sinuatus

🦗Two new #planthopper species of the family Issidae have recently been described from Central Vietnam.

Check out this latest study, which provides #illustrations of the new species, their #habitat, and a distribution #map: doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1273.170785

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I genuinely don't agree with cutting down #trees unless really necessary. I agree with #wild #habitat #protection, #rewilding & #plantingtrees. #Julia #juliawilkinson #biologicaldiversity #environment #ecology #climatechange #globalheating

🔥How can a #fire start at a high-elevation tepui summit (1500-2995m) like Roraima-tepui, Venezuela?

In April-May 2023, fresh fire traces were documented affecting montane Pantepui #habitat with #endemic #plant species. In 2025, the damages remain significant: doi.org/10.3897/bior...

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Victory: Judge Reinstates Alaska Critical Habitat for Bearded, Ringed Seals ANCHORAGE, Alaska— A federal appeals court today upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s designation of nearly 160 million acres of waters off Alaska’s Arctic coast as critical habitat for imperiled bearded and ringed seals. Today’s decision offers ice seals the full protection of critical habitat they need to survive and legally deserve. The Center for Biological Diversity intervened in the case to defend the habitat designation against a challenge from the state of Alaska. The Center also pursued the appeal on its own after the Trump administration chose not to defend the designations. “This is a great victory for these ice-dependent seals,” said Marlee Goska, Alaska staff attorney at the Center. “It’s just common sense that you can’t protect imperiled animals without protecting the places they live, and I’m glad the court agreed. This decision gives these Arctic seals some breathing room, but we still need to stop expanding oil and gas drilling in their habitat to provide these species and so many others a true shot at survival.” The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling reverses a 2024 lower court decision that struck down the habitat designation and reinstates the critical habitat designations for each seal species. The...

Victory: Judge Reinstates Alaska Critical Habitat for Bearded, Ringed Seals
->Center for Biological Diversity | More on "Alaska seal critical habitat ruling" at BigEarthData.ai | #Habitat #Ecosystem

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Spoiler alert: “It’s like flowers on steroids" is not referring to the areas that were heated. This is not encouraging news. But then, it shows how the #ClimateCrisis will change valued ecosystems.

‘It’s like flowers on steroids’: what happened when scientists heated a Rocky Mountain wildlife […]

A lush garden bed with a variety of flowers and greenery in front of a building with a window.

Grow Your Own #Habitat

Location: #SouthsideLibrary Community Room
Date: Tuesday, April 7, 2026
Time: 6:00pm–7:30pm

Transform your yard into an #oasis! Join Catherine Wygant as she provides an overview of ways to support the health of yard habitats.