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An aerial view of a bowhead whale swimming near sea ice. By the time bowhead whaling was abandoned around 1914, there were likely fewer than 4,000 left. (Vicki Beaver/Alaska Fisheries Science Center)

Centuries‑old logbooks reveal how bowhead whales are recovering from near‑extinction

New research used whaling logbooks to explain why only two of the four bowhead whale populations are bouncing back from whaling, which was abandoned a century ago.
Conservationists are at loggerheads about how to save elephants from poaching. EPA/Dai Kurokawa

How to break the impasse between opposing camps in ivory trade debate

Improving livelihoods by exploring alternatives to wildlife trade would help to curb the poaching of threatened species like elephants.

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