Dead deer and small fish: Michigan students learn to investigate poaching 

Great Lakes Echo

By Emilio Perez Ibarguen

For students hoping to become conservation officers for the state Department of Natural Resources -- tasked with enforcing fish, game and natural resource protection laws -- one Northern Michigan University class gives a glimpse into their day-to-day work.

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Baranyai: Could radioactive isotopes save rhinos?

Baranyai: Could radioactive isotopes save rhinos?
London Free Press
In the age of Viagra, you would think the market for rhinoceros horn would simply dry up.
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John Ball Zoo Fights for Great Lakes’ Rarest Butterflies

John Ball Zoo Fights for Great Lakes’ Rarest Butterflies
Great Lakes Echo

By Donté Smith 
Butterfly populations are in decline across the continental U.S., dropping by 22% between 2000 and 2020 according to a study in the journal Science. Almost a third of the 342 species studied have seen their numbers fall by more than half.  To help combat that trend, the John Ball Zoo in Grand Rapids, Michigan, launched its Great Lakes Rare Butterfly Program in 2021 to protect the region’s most threatened species.

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