Move Over Panda, Ugly Animals Need Help Too. When you ask someone about endangered animals, the first animals that most people think of are the large, charismatic mammals the pandas, tigers and elephants, for example. These are often the poster children of conservation biology. What about the more aesthetically challenged animals that are also feeling the pressure of extinction? Can you think of any? Simon Watt, a biologist and TV presenter, established the Ugly Animal Preservation Society.

While they are still currently endangered, the success of these ferrets so far is definitely promising, and there are high hopes that population sizes will only continue to increase. Wildlife Service, Biological Report,.

Instead it can happen slowly, locally, and well within ability.

Mountain Pine Beetles Possibly Heading East. Chemical similarity between historic and novel host plants promotes range and host expansion of the mountain pine beetle in a naïve host ecosystem.

Distribution and Impacts of invasive earthworms in Canadian forest ecosystems. , and Reich, P. Earthworm invasion into previously earthworm free temperate and boreal forests.

Discussing current issues in conservation biology. Oil Spill Impacts for British Columbia.