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UF Wildlife Ecology and Conservation professor named Sloan Foundation Fellow

Brett Scheffers is among 126 honored with a $75,000 grant for research A University of Florida assistant professor has been honored with a prestigious fellowship awarded to promising scientists. Brett Scheffers, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Wildlife Ecology and Conservation at UF, has received an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in Earth System Science, a recognition given to the best early career scientists viewed by their peers as rising stars. Scheffers’ recognition is the first bestowed to a UF professor in seven years. “It is amazing to be recognized by the Sloan Foundation for my career’s work, and I am most grateful for their support,” Scheffers said. “This award gives me the opportunity to continue my research in climate change science, which I hope will highlight emerging issues that both nature and society face.”

Are wildlife trade bans backfiring?

Are wildlife trade bans backfiring? December 20, 2020 Today s best articles Daily business briefing Solving COVID newsletter Customs officials in Singapore made a grisly discovery last April at a port on the island s southern coast. Inside shipping containers supposedly transporting frozen beef from Nigeria to Vietnam, they found bloodstained sacks stuffed with 14 tons of scales stripped illegally from pangolins — scaly anteaters endemic to Africa and Asia. The seizure, worth about $38.7 million, is thought to be the largest bust of pangolin products globally in recent years. People hunt pangolins for their meat, considered a delicacy in Asia, and for their scales, which are used in traditional Chinese medicine to treat ills such as arthritis. Eight species are now vulnerable or endangered and, in 2016, more than 180 nations banned most cross-border commercial trade in them. They did so under a major international agreement called the Convention on International Trade in E

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