“Merlins are a big threat to their recovery,” said Nathan Cooper, a research ecologist with Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute. Rather, they illustrate nature’s complexity and the importance of protecting biological communities, not just individual species. Fishing groups contend the seals could threaten cod stocks that regulators are struggling to rebuild after decades of overfishing. NATURE AT WORKConflicts between recovering species and ones still in trouble don’t always mean something is wrong, scientists say. The eagle’s recovery “complicates the conservation of certain other species,” Lyons said.

Source: Libya Today August 02, 2022 01:47 UTC