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Data Shows Endangered Palau Ground Doves Swiftly Recovering After Successful Palauan Island Conservation Effort
Seabirds, the IUCN Endangered Palau Ground Dove (Pampusana canifrons), and other native species have significantly increased in number thanks to a successful restoration campaign on Ulong Island, Republic of Palau in the Western Pacific Ocean. The acoustic data, processed by Conservation Metrics, shows a dramatic increase in bird calls across the project site. Trail cameras also captured footage of Endangered Palau Ground Doves safely navigating the forest floor.
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Sky Aelans: A Community-Led Model of Guardianship for the Future
Climb above 400 meters in the Solomon Islands and the air changes. Clouds drift closer. Trees grow dense with moss, and the ridges carry an unmistakable weight of history. These are the Sky Aelans—sacred highlands that hold ancestral shrines, origin stories, and the cultural identity of the people who live nearby. Protecting them means safeguarding both biodiversity and culture.
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Introduction to Forest Mapping and Monitoring Tools for Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities
While there is a wealth of spatial data and tools available to support forest protection, these resources often remain inaccessible to the communities that need them most. To bridge that gap, Conservation Metrics, along with UNDP, the Equator Initiative, NASA, Nature4Climate, Awana Digital, Rainforest Foundation US and Global Forest Watch, developed an online, self-paced certificate course to equip Indigenous and frontline communities with foundational knowledge and practical skills to map, monitor, and manage their forests.
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Introduced and native vertebrates in pink- footed shearwater (Ardenna creatopus) breeding colonies in Chile.
Carle, R. D., Fleishman, A. B., Valela, T., Angulo, P. M., Rodt, G. De, Hodum, P., Colodro, V., López, V., Gutiérrez-Guzmán, H. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–24
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Comparing non-breeding distribution and behavior of red-legged kittiwakes from two geographically distant colonies.
Drummond, B. A., Orben, R. A., Christ, A. M., Fleishman, A. B., Renner, H. M., Rojek, N. A., Romano, M. D. (2021). PLOS One, 16(7), 1–17.
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Wintering in the western subarctic Pacific increases mercury contamination of red-legged kittiwakes
Fleishman, A.B., Orben, R.A., Kokubun, N., Will, A., Paredes, R., Ackerman, J.T., Takahashi, A., Kitaysky, A.S. and Shaffer, S.A. (2019). Environmental Science & Technology, 53(22), 13398-13407.
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Temporal and interspecific variation in feather mercury in four penguin species from Macquarie Island, Australia.
Gilmour, M. E., Holmes, N. D., Fleishman, A. B., & Kriwoken, L. K. (2019). Marine Pollution Bulletin, 142(April), 282–289.
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Tropical seabirds sample broadscale patterns of marine contaminants.
Gilmour, M. E., Hudson, S. A. T., Lamborg, C., Fleishman, A. B., Young, H. S., & Shaffer, S. A. (2019). Science of the Total Environment, 691, 631–643.
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A convolutional neural network for detecting sea turtles in drone imagery.
Gray, P. C., Fleishman, A. B., Klein, D. J., McKown, M. W., Bézy, V. S., Lohmann, K. J., & Johnston, D. W. (2019). Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 10(3), 345–355.
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Comparing imaging, acoustics, and radar to monitor Leach’s storm-petrel colonies.
Orben, R. A., Fleishman, A. B., Borker, A. L., Bridgeland, W., Gladics, A. J., Porquez, J., Sanzenbacher, P., Stephensen, S. W., Swift, R., McKown, M.W., & Suryan, R. M. (2019). PeerJ, 7, e6721.
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Evidence of Newell’s Shearwaters and Hawaiian Petrels on Oahu, Hawaii.
Young, L. C., Vanderwerf, E. A., McKown, M. W., Roberts, P., Schlueter, J., Vorsino, A., & Sischo, D. (2019). The Condor, 121(1), 1–7.
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Persistent annual migration patterns of a specialist seabird.
Orben, R. A., Kokubun, N., Fleishman, A. B., Will, A. P., Yamamoto, T., Shaffer, S. A., Paredes, R., Takahasi, A., & Kitaysky, A. S. (2018). Marine Ecology Progress Series, 593, 231–245.