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Matt Perko
Beyond the Classroom: The Research Experience and Education Facility (REEF)
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Andrew Thurber
The structural complexity of a healthy coral reef provides habitat for a diversity of lifeforms.
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Neil Ferdinand Nathan
Apex predators like this shortfin make have an outsized influence on their ecosystems. Unfortunately, they’re also the hardest hit by fishing.
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Narvikk vis iStock
A ranger watches hippos in the Akagera national park, Rwanda, which is managed by the NGO African Parks. Management of many of the continent's protected areas is being transferred from governments to nonprofit NGOs.
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Jing Yang via iStock
A desert oasis is perhaps the most striking example of a groundwater-dependent ecosystem.
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Renato Molina
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UCSB geographer David López-Carr, center left, and Stanford University health and environmental scientist Andrea Lund, center right, working with Senegalese partners
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Matt Perko
David Valentine
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Harrison Tasoff
Transferable conservation credits could incentivize comprehensive protection the ocean’s diverse habitats and wildlife.