Wildlife Conservation

  1. A mule deer grazes in Utah. Image credit: Jonathan D. Mallory/BLM Utah (Public domain)

    The Southwest’s drought is shrinking wildlife’s suitable habitat

  2. Collage illustration of a bird being alerted to the presence of windows so it can avoid collision. Image courtesy: U-M Arts Initiative

    Look out! U-M turns to student designers to advance bird-friendly campus

  3. A violet-green swallow is perched on a piece of concrete looks back over its wing at the camera.

    Noise pollution is affecting birds’ reproduction, stress levels and more. The good news is we can fix it.

  4. Youtube website on a laptop screen. Image credit: Adobe Stock

    YouTubers love wildlife, but commenters aren’t calling for conservation action

  5. Piping plovers in the second stage of development before being released. Image credit: Jeremy Marble, University of Michigan News

    Piping plover: Saving Great Lakes shorebirds and shorelines

  6. A gray wolf stands on snowy terrain at the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in Montana.

    Hunting wolves reduces livestock deaths measurably, but minimally, according to new study

  7. A flammulated owl, roughly the size of the hand that's holding it, has thin, wire-like antenna affixed to its back.

    How animal tracking data can help preserve biodiversity

  8. Scientist bleeds Horseshoe Crabs (Limulus polyphemus) to extract blue, copper based blood - lysate used in testing purity levels in various medicines, Woods Hole Marine Biological Lab, New England (USA). Image credit: Jeff Rotman/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY

    Why isn’t the pharmaceutical industry using this alternative to horseshoe crab blood?

  9. These captive-raised wavy-rayed lampmussel freshwater mussels were used in a University of Michigan-led study of fleshy "mantle lures" that pregnant female mussels use to infect fish hosts with their young. Image credit: Diarmaid O'Foighil, University of Michigan

    Freshwater mussels: Investigating the remarkable reproductive cycle of Michigan’s threatened mollusks

  10. Green sea turtle with fibropapillomatosis. Image credit: iStock

    Missing link in species conservation: Pharmacists, chemists could turn tide on plant, animal extinction

  11. University of Michigan researcher Bill Sanders poses with a newly discovered skull and skeleton of a palaeoloxodont elephant, which is about 1.2 million years old. Image courtesy: Bill Sanders

    Elephants: Earth’s giant climate change canaries

  12. A member of a lion pride lounges in the shade near Moremi Game Reserve in the Okavango Delta, Botswana. Image credit: Kirby Mills

    U-M-led study investigates lions’ interactions with humans in a diminishing habitat 

  13. Microscope image showing a phantom midge larva (genus Chaoborus), top left, preying on a Daphnia dentifera water flea, bottom right. Chaoborus is a fierce predator with a complex "catching basket" on its head for quickly trapping small crustaceans like water fleas. Image credit: Meghan Duffy, University of Michigan.

    A healthy but depleted herd: Predators decrease prey disease levels but also population size

  14. Truck traffic on Nepal's East-West Highway, which bisects all of the country's tiger-bearing parks, as well as important habitat corridors and bottlenecks. For their study, University of Michigan researchers and colleagues equipped two wild tigers, one male and one female, with GPS collars to record detailed information about their movements and behaviors near the highway prior to a planned lane-expansion project. Image credit: Krishna Hengaju

    Rapid behavioral response of Nepalese tigers to reduced road traffic during COVID-19 lockdown

  15. Bright blue Chromis fish on acropora coral at a back reef on the French Polynesian island of Mo'orea. Image credit: Kelly Speare

    Not enough: Protecting algae-eating fish insufficient to save imperiled coral reefs, study concludes

  16. An ant (species: Ectatomma tuberculatum) photographed in Costa Rica. Ants make up a large fraction of the total animal biomass in most terrestrial ecosystems, but researchers say that an understanding of their global diversity is lacking. This new study provides a high-resolution map that estimates and visualizes the global diversity of ants. Photo credit: Dr. Benoit Guénard

    New global map of ant biodiversity reveals areas that may hide undiscovered species

  17. Researcher Leslie Decker with a monarch butterfly in a University of Michigan laboratory. Image credit: Austin Thomason, Michigan Photography.

    Monarch butterflies now listed as endangered: U-M experts available to comment

  18. Concept illustration of species biodiversity. Image credit: Nicole Smith, made with Midjourney

    Higher levels of biodiversity appear to reduce extinction risk in birds

  19. A Partula hyalina snail resting on a wild red ginger leaf next to a Michigan Micro Mote computer system in a forest edge habitat in Tahiti. Image credit: Inhee Lee

    Snails carrying the world’s smallest computer help solve mass extinction survivor mystery

  20. A coyote at the Huron Mountain Club in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. In the U-M wildlife study, coyotes were sometimes misidentified as wolves or foxes, while gray wolves were occasionally misidentified as coyotes. Image credit: University of Michigan Applied Wildlife Ecology Lab.

    Can you tell a marten from a fisher? The challenges of crowdsourced wildlife identification in Michigan