Wildlife conservation tends to save charismatic species. That may be about to change.
Bald eagles have soared back from the brink. Grizzly bear numbers are rebounding. But thousands of less charismatic species are competing for scarce conservation resources in the United States.
BINGHAMTON, New York - By a tributary of the Susquehanna River, biologist Michelle Herman is carefully swabbing a kind of rare, giant salamander called an eastern hellbender for invasive fungus.
"The first one snapped at me when I did the chin rub. It was very feisty," she says. Herman is part of a small group trying to repopulate hellbenders in an area where their numbers have sharply declined.
"They don't
