{"id":3382,"date":"2010-05-10T12:39:03","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/?p=3382"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:39:03","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:39:03","slug":"from-the-community-respecting-animal-privacy-rewilding-america-and-reassessing-the-dead-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/2010\/05\/10\/from-the-community-respecting-animal-privacy-rewilding-america-and-reassessing-the-dead-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Community: Respecting animal privacy, rewilding America and reassessing the Dead Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Early morning flyovers produce a 3D map of New York City\u2019s environment, scientists analyze lizard competition in the Bahamas, Slate<\/em> reviews the ecological cost of large scale illegal drug production and golden lion tamarins paint for an auction to fund National Zoo research. Here is the latest news in ecology for the first week in May.<\/span><\/p>\n

Respecting animal privacy:<\/strong> In a recent <\/span>Journal of Media and Cultural Studies<\/span><\/em><\/a> article, researchers argue that animals\u2019 rights are being violated by documentary filmmakers. In an example from the BBC wildlife documentary series Nature\u2019s Great Events, the authors claim the lengths the filmmakers took to track narwhals under the Arctic ice\u00a0displayed a violation of animal privacy (see above video). <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cAre Wildlife Documentaries an Invasion of Privacy?\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Mapping New York:<\/strong> As part of Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg\u2019s broader environmental agenda <\/span>PlaNYC<\/span><\/a>, planes equipped with lasers have been making early morning flybys to map the structures, elevations and shaded areas of New York City. The goal is to use the map to pinpoint the best locations for solar panels, areas prone to flooding and neighborhoods in need of trees to mitigate\u00a0the effects of global climate change. <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cWith Flyovers, a Solar Map of New York.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Lizard competition: <\/strong>According to a NewScientist <\/em>article, \u201cWrapping entire islands in the Bahamas with netting, introducing snakes to two other islands and measuring the fitness of hundreds of lizards using treadmills: one of the most ambitious ecological field experiments ever conducted has resolved a long-standing question about the evolution of lizards.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cBahamas islands were giant labs for lizard experiment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

War on drugs:<\/strong> Slate<\/em> tackles the U.S.\u2019s \u201cWar on Drugs\u201d topic from a completely different angle: Analyzing the environmental damage caused by large scale illegal drug production. For example,\u00a0it cites an estimated \u201c2.4 million hectares of rainforest have been cleared by coca growers in the South American Andes over the last 20 years.\u201d <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cThe Greenest High.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Rewilding America:<\/strong> In nature reserves like <\/span>Oostvaardersplassen<\/span><\/a> in Amsterdam, scientists are advocating the reintroduction of keystone species in\u00a0hope of restoring pre-European-settlement ecosystems. Researchers discuss the potential impacts \u201crewilding\u201d could have in the U.S. and around the world. <\/span>Read more<\/span><\/a> at \u201cElephants Roaming America? A Big Idea for Rebooting Nature.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, U.S. <\/span>honeybee hives<\/span><\/a> take another dive during the winter, toxicologists <\/span>assess<\/span><\/a> the future of the Dead Zone, scientists describe how whales evolved from the small river animal Indohyus<\/em><\/span><\/a>,<\/em>\u00a0zoologists determine the American lion<\/span><\/a> is actually a jaguar and <\/span>art by humans<\/span><\/a> for conservation and <\/span>art by animals<\/span><\/a> for National Zoo research.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Early morning flyovers produce a 3D map of New York City\u2019s environment, scientists analyze lizard competition in the Bahamas, Slate reviews the ecological cost of large scale illegal drug production and golden lion tamarins paint for an auction to fund National Zoo research. Here is the latest news in ecology for the first week in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,10,2,48],"tags":[744,60,721,64,143,745],"class_list":["post-3382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation","category-ecology-in-policy","category-research","category-ecology-and-society","tag-animals-rights","tag-climate-change","tag-dead-zone","tag-honeybees","tag-lizards","tag-rewilding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/esa.org\/esablog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}