How successful are human interventions for helping wildlife?


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Oct 03 2024 29 mins   3

Everything humanity does has an impact on the natural world, but we’re also highly dependent on it. Laura, Ellie and Jasmin discuss how panda populations have declined and then improved, the work of zoos, instances of adapting nature to live with us, and how research is uncovering complex way that wildlife, farming, fishing and garden birds interact with us.


Here’s the study that Ellie mentions about artificial reefs dramatically improving marine species numbers.


Read news of some specific studies into how feeders affect garden birds and statics on UK bird populations, both mentioned by Laura


Read news about squirrel train travel and contraception mentioned by Laura.