The Conservation Behavior Research Lab

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...

By Yuval Zukerman Recently, due to the COVID-19 pandemic that is keeping everyone inside their houses, wild animals are increasingly...

One of the primary threats to biodiversity in our times is habitat fragmentation. Habitat fragmentation occurs when a continuous habitat...

How important are environmental effects compared to genetics on the development of learning abilities? While this nature-nurture debate...

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...

Striped Hyenas (Hyaena hyaena) hold a high potential for conflict with humans due to opportunistic feeding behavior that drives them...

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...

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,...

Two week ago, Ron Efrat's Egyptian Vultures project officially started with the release of eight captive-bred birds to the wild. The...

The use of systematic reviews and maps as decision-making tools has been increasing in popularity as a means to bridge the science-policy...

In a recent publication in Conservation Biology, Uri, Oded and Ricardo Correia from the University of Aveiro, developed a new tool, based...