There aren't too many happy stories when it comes to restoring damaged ecosystems, but southern Thailand's Trang Province is home to one of them. This science bulletin spotlights an innovative grassroots organization called Yad Fon. Founded in 1984, Yad Fon set out to restore the healthy mangrove ecosystems that had sustained the region's families for thousands of years - and to pull it off by getting the villagers to manage their own natural resources....

In 2000, building on its pioneering efforts in establishing land and sea parks, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas initiated one of the world's first networks of marine reserves. This designation provided an international team of researchers with an unprecedented opportunity to study the physical, biological, and socioeconomic impacts of such a network and to integrate all of these aspects into recommendations for future conservation strategies. As this...

This Science Screen Report studies the Wollemi Pine, its 100-million-year history, and the methods used to protect and sustain it. Describing the tree's physical characteristics, its unusual way of propagating, and the medically valuable fungi that grow on its leaves and stems, the program explains how this living organism closely resembles fossils of long-extinct species, and how seed gathering, forest management, and other procedures can help ensure...