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Department of Wildlife, Fish, & ConservationBiology within the College of Agriculture and Environmental Science at UC Davis

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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
How can we minimize bycatch to prevent accidentally killing rays? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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The Hidden Cost of Tuna: Rays Caught as Bycatch
By Daniela Gonzalez
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
How does artificial light at night affect earthworms? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Earthworms Don’t Like Being in the Spotlight: LED Lights Harm Earthworm Populations
By: Rebecca Hamilton (UC Davis)
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
How does wetland management in agricultural lands affect migratory birds? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Working Lands, Working Wetlands
Between the mud and the crud, farmed wetlands show great importance to migratory birds.
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
How are invasive raccoon dogs affecting wetland-dependent wildlife in Europe? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/bf3436dff8...
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The Wetland Burglar: How Invasive Raccoon Dogs Are Putting Native Animals at Risk.
By Li-Hsuan (Max) Chan
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Are Golf Courses Effective For Avian Conservation Or For Only One Kind of Birdie? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner Blog! medium.com/p/3b2762c604...
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Unusual Habitats: Are Golf Courses Effective For Avian Conservation Or For Only One Kind of Birdie?
By Kevin Wu
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Can we coexist with sharks and rays or are we likely to drive them to extinction? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/870c5b065e...
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Can Sharks, Rays, and Humans Coexist, or will we drive them to Extinction?
by Isabella Quaife
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
How does artificial light at night affect earthworms? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/08f8ab633e...
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Earthworms Don’t Like Being in the Spotlight: LED Lights Harm Earthworm Populations
By: Rebecca Hamilton
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
How can we best support recovering California Condor populations? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/73ac4fe900...
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Can we restore the California Condor?
By Courtney Tai
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
How can we better manage rice fields for migrating shorebirds in California? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/7ba1db6324...
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California Rice Fields Are Creating Better Pit-stops for Struggling Shorebirds
By Haiden del Fierro
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Could a bat disease disrupt pest control, increasing pesticide applications as well as infant mortality? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/38aa9d2133...
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The Silent Killer: How White Nose Syndrome in Bats is Killing Crops, Cash, and Children
By Catie Equi
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Is demand for pangolin meat or scales driving their decline? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/01d63ff669...
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Meat and Scales — The Hidden Driver of Pangolin Decline
By Amy Zhang (UC Davis)
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Could translocating seabird colonies help them cope with sea-level rise? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/47250332e9...
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Nowhere to Tern? Hope For Seabirds Lies on Higher Islands
By: Calvin Bonn
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Could DNA be used to identify individual tigers involved in human-wildlife conflict? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/p/4d25c24fd7...
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CSI: Tiger Edition — Using DNA to Solve Livestock Kill Cases
By Beichen Qiang
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Could dehorning rhinos help stop poaching? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog? medium.com/student-cons...
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Proactive Dehorning Saves Lives: Dehorning Rhinos Before Poachers Can
By Emily Koppes
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
Do marine protected areas effectively protect sharks? What happens when they swim outside them? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner Blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Tag, Track, and Protect- Are Marine Protected Areas Effective Enough for Reef Shark Conservation?
By Areesha Azeem
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Can detection dogs and camera traps be used together to help determine Cheetah population sizes? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Unleashing Innovation: How Dogs and Camera Traps are Used to Detect and the Elusive Cheetah
By Samantha Kosoy
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
What happened to Elephant Seals after they recovered from a near-extinction event in California? Find out in the Student Conservation Corner blog this week: medium.com/student-cons...
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The Resurgence of a Ghost: Consequences of the Boom That Brought the Northern Elephant Seal Back…
By Mominna Raza
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
How did armed conflict affect fish in the Amazon? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Does Armed Conflict Benefit Fish in The Amazon?
By Nadia Dean
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Are wolves increasing moving towards cities? How can we manage them? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog? medium.com/student-cons...
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Meet the Wolves in Your Backyard
By Jacob Hu
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
How do weather conditions affect Red Panda behavior and what does this mean for their conservation? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Tracking Red Pandas: How Weather and Human Disturbances Impact Their Behavior
By Kayla McCambridge
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
How do hurricanes affect endangered butterflies and what are the implications for conservation? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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After the Storm: A (Swallow)Tale of Resilience
By Alexandra Ina
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Where do Chinese Pangolins live and how can we use that knowledge to protect them? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Looking for a Home: Conservation of Chinese Pangolins Starts with Locating Suitable Habitats
By Julia Barbieri-Low
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
Can drones help researchers conserve endangered monkeys in Vietnam? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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How conservation scientists are using drones with heat-vision to preserve habitat of critically…
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Could rotational fishing help conserve biodiverse oyster reefs? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Not Coral…But Still a Reef?
By Julia Snell
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Could artificial shading help sea turtles reproduce? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/@danielsolka...
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Too Hot to Hatch: Can Shade Save the Sea Turtles?
By Kenya Quijada Escobar
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
How does human recreation affect bears and wolves in Canada's national parks? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/@danielsolka...
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Hiking for Wildlife’s Disliking: How Trails Expand Human Influence on Wary Carnivores
By Clare Daubert
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Could commercial forests be used to support birds in the Northeastern US? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Commercial Forests for Birds: Boon or Bust?
By Jake Campo
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
How effective are Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in the Indian Ocean at conserving large-bodied fish? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner Blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Parrotfish and Wrasse and Groupers, Oh My! Disappearance of Reef Fish in the Indian Ocean
By Olivia Jensen
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Daniel Karp @dskarp.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
Amidst all the heaviness out there, so fun to share a wonderful story about our record-breaking big day a month ago! Thanks so much to Tiffany Dobbyn of @ucdavisnews.bsky.social for writing this! caes.ucdavis.edu/news/uc-davi...
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UC Davis Team Breaks ‘Big Day’ County Record with 173 Birds
The wind was whipping across a dark, open field near the southern edge of Yolo County when two small burrowing owls suddenly burst into flight. For a team of birders from UC Davis, the birds marked th...
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
Could community-driven conservation programs help solve human-wildlife conflicts and save snow leopards? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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How Getting Together with Your Community Can Protect the Snow Leopards
As a large predator, snow leopards are often the target of violent deaths by humans, but is there another way to deal with managing snow…
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
How are anticoagulant rodenticides affecting owls? And can we do anything about it? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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How Rodenticides May Be Silently Threatening Our Owls
By Daisy Perez
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
How is ship traffic noise affecting orca hunting patterns? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Ocean Noise Pollution: How Ship Traffic is Making Killer Whales Miss Their Meals
By Rachel Li
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
What were the genetic consequences of the precipitous decline... then rapid recovery... of the Northern Elephant Seal? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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The Resurgence of a Ghost: Consequences of the Boom That Brought the Northern Elephant Seal Back…
By Mominna Raza
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
How are oral diseases affecting raptor health and reproduction? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Oral Disease in Scavenging Birds
Is it our fault? The Diseased Disaster! Researchers say human-caused environmental diseases are harming nestling health.
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Could conserving small woodlots and vegetated agricultural ditches help save farmland species? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner Blog medium.com/student-cons...
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Could community-based programs help reconcile human-wildlife conflicts and save snow leopards? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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How Getting Together with Your Community Can Protect the Snow Leopards
As a large predator, snow leopards are often the target of violent deaths by humans, but is there another way to deal with managing snow…
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Could re-introducing sea otters help control invasive green crab populations and restore balance to marine ecosystems? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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A Delicate Balance: Can endangered sea otter populations help us eliminate invasive green crabs?
By: Grace McCulloch
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
How is increased ship traffic in the Arctic affecting whales and what can we do about it? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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A Collision Course: Traffic Jams in the Arctic
By Caroline Donohew
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Do bats help farmers by eating insect pests? If so, how can we help bats help us? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Bats and Their Sustainable Pest-Control Services
By Sami Paul
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Are efforts to conserve tigers in India compromising elephant conservation? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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The Battle for Land: Tigers vs. Elephants
By: Amritavarshini Chennapragada
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Could figuring out where coyotes build their dens reduce human-wildlife conflict in cities? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Protecting the Pups: Can we avoid conflict with coyotes by analyzing their den sites?
By Rachel-Ann Arias
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 28/10/2024
Could planting trees to combat climate change actually hurt ground-nesting birds? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Iceland’s Double Edge Sword: Saving the Planet but Destroying Biodiversity?
How Planting Trees May Potentially Threaten Avian Wildlife
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
Could forest restoration prevent the severe fires that threaten Spotted Owls? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/@danielsolka...
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Can Forest Restoration Save the Spotted Owls in the Branches?
By Kayden Delvo
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 14/10/2024
Does native landscaping really make a difference for wintering birds in cities? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Natural Briars, Natural Fliers: Native Landscaping Aids Urban Bird Populations
By: Neil Christian Seierup
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 07/10/2024
Are ship collisions killing whale sharks? What can be done about it? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Are Ships a Threat to Our Ocean Giants?
By Emily Dang
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 12/09/2024
Major news: we are recruiting an assistant professor in our department!!! If you are a wildlife ecologist, ideally with quantitative or mammal expertise, then definitely apply! We can't wait to greet a new colleague: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06725
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Assistant Professor of Wildlife Ecology
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 03/09/2024
How is renewable energy production affecting migratory birds in California? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Renewable Energy’s Unseen Toll
By Daniel Cervantes
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 19/08/2024
Our friends over in the Department of Environmental Science and Policy are hiring a professor of 21st century ecosystem conservation. Check it out and come be our colleague! recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF06675
recruit.ucdavis.edu
Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Conservation - Department of Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 28/05/2024
Do wildlife crossing structures improve conservation outcomes? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Are animal bridges actually helping wildlife conservation?
Sydney Riedel
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WFCB UC Davis @wfcbucdavis.bsky.social · 20/05/2024
Does hunting wolves reduce livestock losses? Find out in the latest Student Conservation Corner blog! medium.com/student-cons...
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Prioritizing Wolf Conservation Over Historical Fears
By Aidan Rafols
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