Archivo mensual: diciembre 2011

Promote conservation of field deer, an endemic species in Uruguay

Recently published the book Conservation of the field deer of the scientific Susana Gonzalez, head of the Laboratory of Genetics, Institute for the Conservation of Biological Research Clemente Stable (IIBCE spanish).

Gonzalez has spent 20 years researching in the field of conservation genetics, with emphasis on the deer in the field. “By helping to preserve species and grassland landscape,” said the researcher, who… Continue reading

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Define strategies to protect sea turtles in America

Recently a group of American scientists met in Panama, in the “V Regional Symposium on Sea Turtle of the Eastern South Pacific”, to discuss strategies and good practices to protect this endangered species.

The symposium was attended by representatives from Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, which together with Panama and the countries of Central America are part of the South Pacific Permanent Commission… Continue reading

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New animal species discovered in South America

The International Institute for Species Exploration unveiled this year in Washington some animails unknown at this time by the scientific community, discovered in South America during 2011.

In Uruguay, a team of researchers found in coastal sands a male wolf spider that despises old females and the ones of low reproductive power.

It is the Alloco brasiliensis, which preferred to mate with… Continue reading

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