Bats 101 - Bat Conservation International Bats have been on Earth for more than 50 million years With more than 1,400 species, they are the second largest order of mammals, and are widely dispersed across six continents Globally, bats provide vital ecosystem services in the form of insect pest consumption, plant pollination, and seed dispersal, making them essential to the health of
How private money helped save the election | APM Reports Each election office received different amounts of money and chose to spend grants in its own way For instance, Philadelphia, with more than a million registered voters, received nearly four times the funding of Chester County, with more than 380,000 registered voters The two jurisdictions' spending reflected varying election needs
Governor Newsom sends 2025-26 budget plan to Legislature The number of CAL FIRE personnel has nearly doubled since the beginning of Governor Newsom’s administration $89 7 million annually and 350 additional firefighter positions, phased in through 2025-26, to provide relief staffing $449 million annually to support 75 new fire crews, including CAL FIRE firefighters, California Conservation Corps
Vietnam’s Empty Forests - The New York Times Vietnam’s decline is especially intense For example, in a single remote national preserve set aside for the saola and other rare animals, 23,000 cheap but fatally efficient wire snares were
Fact Check: Did FEMA Spend Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on . . . Americans were rightly angered by the announcement by Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Wednesday that the Federal Emergency Management Agency “[does] not have the funds” to make it through the hurricane season, particularly in light of the over $600 million it spent on “migrant services” this past fiscal year
Understanding Conservation - National Wildlife Federation When more individuals of a species are interconnected, the gene pool becomes larger and more viable Migratory wildlife benefit from corridors because they can move safely over long distances without having to come into contact with human developments or cars Species are more likely to survive disturbances by having more undisturbed areas
Fully Funding Conservation Can Stop the Extinction Crisis Considering the long arc of human inquiry, the concept of biodiversity is relatively new Charles Darwin laid the foundation when he expounded on natural selection and devised the evolutionary tree of life in the mid-19th century—yet biodiversity only joined the scientific lexicon as a well-developed concept in the 1980s