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Video: The Making of Rio Fernando Park
The Taos Land Trust (TLT) is in the process of revitalizing a 20-acre property with 13 acres of historical agricultural land and 7 acres of wetland next to Fred Baca Park in the center of Taos, New Mexico. This project will revitalize a section of the Rio Fernando River, bring an acequia back to life,…
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Video: The Rio Fernando Collaborative
The Rio Fernando de Taos Revitalization Collaborative is a dynamic collective of individuals, elected leaders, organizations, and government entities working to revitalize the Rio Fernando by improving water quality and ecological function, restoring acequia systems, strengthening working land capacity, and connecting people to the river and land they love. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ePEjpWDoKg&feature=share
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Bat Conservation International Species Profiles
Check out species profiles of bats around the world in this online library by Bat Conservation International. Search by state to find out which bats you might find locally. http://www.batcon.org/resources/media-education/species-profiles
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Article: Listening to Nature: The Emerging Field of Bioacoustics
Researchers are increasingly placing microphones in forests and other ecosystems to monitor birds, insects, frogs, and other animals. As the technology advances and becomes less costly, proponents argue, bioacoustics is poised to become an important remote-sensing tool for conservation. https://e360.yale.edu/features/listening-to-nature-the-emerging-field-of-bioacoustics
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Video: Conservation and Restoration Ecology: Crash Course Ecology #12
Hank wraps up the Crash Course on ecology by taking a look at the growing fields of conservation biology and restoration ecology, which use all the kung fu moves we’ve learned about in the past eleven weeks and apply them to protecting ecosystems and to cleaning up the messes that we’ve already made.
