Conservation Issues

To celebrate World Curlew Day this month, here's a look back to the last recorded sighting of Eskimo Curlew, now believed to be extinct.

Since the end of August, crude oil deposits have been observed across almost 2,500 miles of the Brazilian coast – a distance longer than the entire Atlantic coast of the United States.

In September, WHSRN and SAVE Brasil were in Mostardas and Tavares, in southern Brazil, conducting a teacher training workshop for 49 teachers from local public schools. The workshop focused on [...]

The non-profit Mono Lake Committee has been working since 1978 to protect, restore, and steward Mono Lake through restoration, policy, education, and science.

What does a shrimp producer gain by protecting shorebirds? WHSRN’s Salvadora Morales talks to some of Central America’s largest shrimp companies to identify prospects for collaboration and [...]

This spring, COSEWIC added the Hudsonian Godwit to its growing list of threatened wildlife species. What led to this status, and what efforts are underway to recover populations of this [...]

The new International Phalaropes Working Group met for the first time at Mono Lake, California, to discuss the most urgent research and conservation needs for two species of phalaropes.

In January 2019, aerial surveys were successfully conducted of the population of rufa Red Knot Calidris canutus wintering in Tierra del Fuego, South America. This year’s surveys revealed a total [...]

This story, by WHSRN partner David Bradley and WHSRN Conservation Specialist Diego Luna Quevedo, was originally published in the November 2018 issue of Green Marine Magazine.