Where and why do Egyptian vultures die?
By Ron Efrat They say it is the age of big data, but how do you get big data when your study species is globally endangered? You...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Apr 23, 20202 min read
The tale of the town ibex and the country ibex
By Yuval Zukerman Recently, due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is keeping everyone inside their houses, wild animals are increasingly...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Jan 7, 20202 min read
Invisible barriers
One of the primary threats to biodiversity in our times is habitat fragmentation. Habitat fragmentation occurs when a continuous habitat...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Jan 20, 20191 min read
Learning in captive vs. wild-born lizards
How important are environmental effects compared to genetics on the development of learning abilities? While this nature-nurture debate...
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Yael Lehnardt
Oct 27, 20182 min read
Internship to study birds’ bioacoustics at the Craters of the Moon
Do birds care about the level of noise in the environment? Do they prefer singing in a quiet place or do they keep on ‘rocking’ despite...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Jul 4, 20181 min read
Changing public attitudes towards Striped Hyenas
Striped Hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) hold a high potential for conflict with humans due to opportunistic feeding behavior that drives them...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Jun 3, 20181 min read
First observations of scorpions hunting antlions
In May 2016, seventeen months after an oil spill at the 'Avrona Nature Reserve (you can learn more about the 'Avrona oil spill here), a...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Apr 10, 20182 min read
Conservation Technology: the next generation
The conservation technology revolution has begun, and it means that the power to save our planet lies at the hands of each one of us,...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Dec 28, 20171 min read
An exciting beginning
Two week ago, Ron Efrat's Egyptian Vultures project officially started with the release of eight captive-bred birds to the wild. The...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Dec 15, 20172 min read
Systematic reviews to link conservation and behavior – international workshop
The use of systematic reviews and maps as decision-making tools has been increasing in popularity as a means to bridge the science-policy...
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Oded Berger-Tal
Dec 12, 20171 min read
Using artificial neural networks to separate the cream from the crop in systematic reviews
In a recent publication in Conservation Biology, Uri, Oded and Ricardo Correia from the University of Aveiro, developed a new tool, based...
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