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6/29/23

Sunday, June 11th was the biggest event of the year for the Audubon on Campus chapter at UCLA, the Bruin Birding Club. It was our very first bird-themed LGBTQ+ Pride Festival, welcoming LGBTQ+ folks and allies to celebrate, build community, and enhance their relationships with birds and the outdoors. We organized a series of events across the day to give attendees a variety of ways to engage with two key ideas...
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4/16/23

A group of around 20 UCLA ecology and evolutionary biology professors, graduate student teaching assistants and undergraduate students spent more than three weeks conducting research in the Peruvian Amazon basin...
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1/11/23

The life of Los Angeles mountain lion P-22 showed the desire — and, in many respects, ability — of Angelenos to live with the wildlife in their midst. As memorials spring up from the Los Angeles Zoo to the Greek Theater, UCLA researchers examine the lessons that can be learned from this celebrity cougar and ponder how wildlife can live and thrive in urban areas...
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3/14/22

When the bats under a highway overpass in south central Los Angeles suddenly disappear, Andre, a boy on the autism spectrum who is passionate about the winged mammals, becomes desperate to find out what happened...
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1/7/22

Last October, Whitewater Preserve was host to a bat study by PhD candidate Joey Curti! Curti works through a partnership with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) Wildlife Genetics Research Laboratory to more accurately assess bat connectivity and genetic health...                                          
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