Lewison Lab post-doctoral researcher, Megan Jennings, has been working to evaluate wildlife movement across State Route 67, a rural highway in San Diego County that has proven to be dangerous to people and wildlife. The California Department of Transportation, CalTrans, has been working to make the highway safer, and we're helping them study how to do that for wildlife. Check out this video to see Megan discuss our CalTrans-funded research to assess wildlife movement across the highway and identify safe and appropriate road crossings.
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![]() The IUCN is the World Conservation Union, the first global environmental organization and a leading authority on the environment and sustainable development. The IUCN works to influence, encourage and assist societies throughout the world to conserve the integrity and diversity of nature and to ensure that any use of natural resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable. Want to learn more? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w7GQZsGmW5Y The Lewison Lab is part of the IUCN Specialist Survival Commission. To learn more about our IUCN work, go to http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/species/who_we_are/ssc_specialist_groups_and_red_list_authorities_directory/mammals/ More than 20 years ago, an accidental ecological experiment began when the infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar, died and his private collection of exotic wildlife wandered off his compound in Antioquia, Colombia. The hippos that were part of that collection have now reproduced and their population has grown and appears to be thriving in the water-rich Colombian rainforest. Listen in to an interview with WBEZ's Worldview where Dr. Rebecca Lewison shares her knowledge of hippos and discusses what to make of the hippos of Colombia.
Research in the lab has long been focused on understanding landscape and seascape connectivity - how animals move, or don't move, across the landscape. From desert tortoises and bobcats, to sea turtles and sharks, a number of projects are working to improve tools and approaches to understand how animal movement patterns over time are shaping the populations we observe. To find out more about one project, go to http://newscenter.sdsu.edu/sdsu_newscenter/news.aspx?s=75148
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