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Prickly but Unprotected: 18 Percent of Cactus Species at Risk

Nearly a fifth of the world’s cactus species are unprotected by the world’s national parks and other conservation areas, making them one of the most at-risk groups of species on the planet, a new ... read more

A Booming Black Market Is Putting Many Cacti Species in Danger

Goettsch’s team found that 261 out of 1,438 cactus species are unprotected by preserves or conservation regulations—and as a group, they are even more at risk than mammals and birds. “Our results show ... read more

Scientists capture one of the world’s rarest big cats on film (photos)

except prickly males hunt alone and use dense vegetation as cover; instead of social hunting in open savannah, they depend on ambushing unsuspecting prey. Forgotten lions: shedding light on the fate ... read more

Homegrown Comeback

Arizona historian Thomas Sheridan has reported that the 127,000 acres of food crop cultivated in the Arizona Territory in 1896 had dropped to 96,000 acres nine years later, a 24 percent ... prickly ... read more

For Navajos, Desert ‘Tea’ Fosters Kinship With Heritage

Unlike the evergreen Camelia sinensis used in caffeinated black and green teas, greenthread is brewed from at least one species of Thelesperma.A member ... Mountain beeplant (aka Navajo spinach), ... read more

The list for Sept. 7-15

Ages 55 and up receive a 50 percent ... and other species hiding in the reeds. 7-9 a.m. Sept. 14. 209-1811. Prickly Pear Harvest Workshop — Roy P. Drachman-Agua Caliente Park, 12325 E. Roger Road. ... read more

WITHERED AND BURNED: Some Lessons from Texas

Don pulls at the handle and a three-foot long arc of fire incinerates a low, dense patch of prickly pear cactus. Burly six- to eight-inch spines ... and fiber from cotton production—that he feeds them ... read more

Contribution to the characterization of Opuntia spp. juices by LC-DAD-ESI-MS/MS

Among the different prickly pear ... in the herein species. Betaxanthins were found in a higher percentage in OG, followed by OS and were not identified in OE. ... ... Whereas the juices from the ... read more

Saving the Galapagos, One Poison-Dropping Helicopter at a Time

"When you have an island endemic like this, you have 100 percent of the population that's at potential risk when ... Invasive species on the Galapagos are not a new problem. They've been wreaking ... read more

Healing Holiday

She assumed the cactus itself was native to Israel, until encountering it here. Spanish explorers gathered the green stems of a species of prickly pear in central ... and gave 10 percent of the ... read more

Lions for sale: big game hunting combines with lion bone trade to threaten endangered cats

“To prevent that risk ... prickly males hunt alone and use dense vegetation as cover; instead of social hunting in open savannah, they depend on ambushing unsuspecting prey. Forgotten lions: shedding ... read more

A generalized method to determine detectability of rare and cryptic species using the ornate box turtle (Terrapene ornata) as a model

We used radiotelemetry to measure detectability of ornate box turtles (Terrapene ornata ... species include little bluestem (Schyzachyrium scoparium), goat's rue (Tephrosia virginiana), spiderwort ... read more