Wings of the Amazon: The Macaw Society’s Living Chronicle
In the treetops of Peru’s Amazon, The Macaw Society is documenting the fragile lives of Red-and-green and Scarlet Macaws—revealing how long-term research, community partnerships, and quiet persistence protect the rainforest’s most vivid sentinels.
Peregrine Falcon Downlisting Debate Exposes a Flawed Conservation Cycle
Peregrine Falcon CITES Downlisting 7Dec250:00/194.664489795918371× The proposal to downlist the Peregrine Falcon from Appendix I to Appendix II under CITES has prompted a wave of concern among raptor specialists, who warn that the move risks destabilising one of conservation’s most expensive recovery stories. The issue, highlighted in The Parliament Magazine, underscores a broader problem in international wildlife governance: the assumption that population recovery is equivalent to lo
Gyorgy Szimuly
Sound-based surveys uncover fine-scale habitat selection in the declining Crested Tit
New research from Finland suggests that Crested Tits respond more to fine-scale forest structure than to forest age in early spring, challenging assumptions about how habitat quality is defined in managed boreal forests.
Gyorgy Szimuly
Cormorants: Evolutionary Failure or Underwater Mastermind?
Cormorants are often labelled evolutionary misfits for having partially wettable feathers – hardly ideal for a diving bird. Their design is far from flawed. It is a finely tuned adaptation that reveals an unexpected path in the evolution of underwater hunting.
Gyorgy Szimuly