Our world's rapidly growing human population poses increasingly difficult and complicated challenges to the conservation of biodiversity. But technology, which is sometimes blamed for hastening changes in the environment, is providing scientists with exciting new tools to detect, evaluate, and attempt to correct many ecological threats. Advances in computerized mapping and satellite tracking are also helping to reveal previously unknown occurrences of rare species and their important habitats. Biologists are even using new types of ultralight aircraft to teach captive-reared birds how to migrate in the wild. This edition of the Bulletin takes a look at how some of these modern tools are being applied to species conservation.

Endangered Species Bulletin -- January/February 1997 -- Feature Story