Center for Conservation Biology

In recent years, the Center has initiated the development of a community outreach program. the purpose of this emerging program is to inform the general public about ongoing envionmental problems while providing education about potential solution and recent research findings. by interacting directly with the community, we hope to advance the public debate and establish a forum for problem solving.

As part of this initiative, the Center regularly participates in newspaper articles, magazine articles, and articles published via electronic media. In addition, Center staff and/or associates are routinely features in video, television, and radio broadcasts.

6/15/2010 Savannah Morning News - Before long flight, birds fatten up on Georgia coast

4/15/2010 Virginian Pilot - Shorebird flew 14,170 miles to and from Virginia

4/14/2010 The Virgin Islands Daily News - Hope, the migrating whimbrel, flies back to the states

4/14/2010 W&M News - Hope arrives early

3/31/2010 WVEC.com (video) - Eaglet banded at Norfolk Botanical Garden

3/8/2010 The Village Mill (Brandermill Community Assoc. news) - American bald eagles are making a dramatic comeback

2/18/2010 BNet online (from Virginian-Pilot print edition) - Reese Lukei, Jr. (article & interview)

2/3/2010 WHRO Norfolk Perspectives (video) - The 2010 update on the Botanical Garden eagles (starts minute 9:15)

2/3/2010 WVEC.com news - SLIDESHOW: Eagle lays second egg of season

1/12/2010 WVEC.com news - Eagle Cam - Muskrat for lunch, Jan. 12 (Reese Lukei, Jr.)

1/4/2010 WVEC.com - Slideshow: Eagles at Norfolk Botanical Garden (Reese Lukei, Jr.)

1/14/2010 US Fish & Wildlife Service release - Juvenile bald eagle chooses OBX as winter home

11/11/2009 W&M Ideation Magazine - Never trust a whimbrel

11/4/2009 33rd Annual Waterbird Society Meeting - Meeting overview (CCB gave several talks)

11/2/2009 The Virginian-Pilot - Transmitter allows researchers to keep tabs on eagle

10/12/2009 The Virgin Islands Daily News - Hope, the migrating whimbrel, shows signs of turning from tourist into a winter resident

9/22/2009 Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald - Bald eagle numbers soaring in Roanoke Valley

9/21/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - New book flows from a year with the James

8/24/2009 The Virgin Islands Daily News - Migratory shorebird tracked by scientists arrives in V.I.

7/8/2009 VCU News - Center for Conservation Biology invites the public to become involved in eagle conservation as the Virginia breeding population continues to climb

7/8/2009 W&M News - Are eagles nesting near your house?

6/15/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Birds could be losers in Shockoe ballpark proposal

6/2009 WHRO Norfolk Perspectives (video) - Eaglets at the Botanical Garden (starts minute 8:30)

4/21/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Camouflage doesn’t keep snake from mallard’s eggs

4/9/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Martins make late return to Bottom

3/16/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Vibrant bald eagle population finds a home on the James

3/3/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Richmond’s herons should be fine in snow

2/24/2009 Baltimore Sun - Evicting eagles

2/24/2009 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Great blue herons back on the James

12/16/2008 W&M News - New professorship honors conservationist

11/15/2008 W&M Ideation Magazine - Eagle researchers honor two of their own

8/14/2008 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Birds invade bridge

8/1/2008 W&M Ideation Magazine - The Eagle Trappers

6/4/2008 W&M Ideation Magazine - Follow Azalea the eagle online

6/4/2008 W&M News - Whimbrel flies 3,200 miles in 146 hours

4/28/2008 Richmond Times-Dispatch - One falcon chick dies; three eggs fail to hatch

3/10/2006 Richmond Times-Dispatch - Bird May Come Off List of Threatened Species

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