Traditional grazing practice a win-win for community and cattle

    Traditional grazing practice a win-win for community and cattle

    A challenging winter landscape hardened with cliffs, caves and archaeological rock formations on Ireland's rugged west coast is not where you'd expect to graze cattle – but for ecological restoration and preservation, livestock are precisely what this area needs, says a U of G anthropology researcher.

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    Genetics a useful tool for predicting Salmonella outbreaks

    Genetics a useful tool for predicting Salmonella outbreaks

    Hearing the word Salmonella likely makes you think of raw chicken, not fruits and vegetables. However, this past summer Canada saw 515 confirmed cases of Salmonella linked to red onions, a number that a University of Guelph food microbiologist is now working to prevent.

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    Lasting lemur conservation relies on multiple agents

    Lasting lemur conservation relies on multiple agents

    Most people’s only exposure to lemurs is through the movie Madagascar, which doesn’t give an accurate representation of the endangerment they are facing and the way that their environments and interactions with humans contribute to this problem.

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