For now, even the most optimistic conservationists have to admit that the Numbers are discouraging.
Forest conservationists, schooled in failure, rattle off a list of possible reasons why.
"Now, due to the fact that jaguars love Obsession for Men, WCS field conservationists are getting more precise estimates of jaguar populations," McNab said.
It was the mother lode of the remaining kakapo population, and it provided conservationists with another opportunity to rehabilitate the species.
A new monkey species in Myanmar is so snub-nosed that rainfall is said to makes it sneeze—But that's apparently the least of its problems, conservationists announced in October.
And last summer, on the tenth anniversary of the Edwards Dam removal, Augusta residents and conservationists gathered to celebrate the return of astounding Numbers of fish to the Kennebec.
The heartbreak for conservationists is that the convergence of sargassum and oil offers the best chance of finding young turtles before they suffocate on the crude. But it can also be deadly.
