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Conservation

Wildlife

Holy Herbaria: Protecting Plant History — or About to Become History?

Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
September 8, 2025
by
Karen Mockler
Plant repositories provide crucial links between plants, botanists, and the rest of us. But their already-shrinking budgets face new threats from the Trump administration.
Reviews

Wild Reads: 10 New Books that Celebrate Wildlife and Their Environments

From chimpanzees and wolves to snakes and starlings, these new books capture hidden truths about fascinating species — and reveal how to better protect them.
September 5, 2025
by
Colleen M. Crary, Ph.D.
From chimpanzees and wolves to snakes and starlings, these new books capture hidden truths about fascinating species — and reveal how to better protect them.
The Ask

Saving Okefenokee

A potential titanium mine threatened the famous swamp — until activists and local journalists stepped in.
September 4, 2025
by
John R. Platt
A potential titanium mine threatened the famous swamp — until activists and local journalists stepped in.
Wildlife

Wildlife Trade: Does the ‘Livelihoods Depend on It’ Defense Hold Up?

New research into the turtle-meat trade reveals that assumptions and unsubstantiated claims could hurt conservation efforts.
September 2, 2025
by
Tracy Keeling
New research into the turtle-meat trade reveals that assumptions and unsubstantiated claims could hurt conservation efforts.
Op-Eds

We Don’t Have to Anthropomorphize Animals to Care About Them

Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.
August 8, 2025
by
Miriam Bahagijo
Assigning human qualities to animals is dangerous for them — and for us.
Wildlife

What Does It Take to Write a Global Conservation Report? A New Assessment of Sharks Offers Answers

A two-year effort by hundreds of science and conservation experts from 158 countries reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.
August 4, 2025
by
Dr. David Shiffman
A two-year effort by hundreds of science and conservation experts from 158 countries reveals the latest shark conservation statistics, while providing insight into the process to protect large groups of species.
Reviews

Earth Versed: 10 New Poetry Books About Our Relationship With Nature

From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books celebrate Earth and mourn its destruction.
July 30, 2025
by
John R. Platt
From a collection set in a landfill to an author’s cultural exploration of a critically endangered species, these books celebrate Earth and mourn its destruction.
Voices

Footprints and Fences: In Search of Hedgehogs

This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.
July 17, 2025
by
David Overend
This is how hedgehogs coexist with us in the urban environment. Their time is when most of us are sleeping; their place is in the gaps and disregarded spaces of our busy city lives.
Op-Eds

Can a Powerful International Wildlife Conservation Meeting Help Save Sharks?

Seven proposals at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference of the parties would benefit up to 70 species of sharks…if they pass.
July 16, 2025
by
Dr. David Shiffman
Seven proposals at the upcoming Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species conference of the parties would benefit up to 70 species of sharks…if they pass.
Wildlife

The Politicians Who Cried Wolf

Wolf conservation in the European Union has become a political issue instead of a scientific and environmental one, leading to ineffective policymaking.
June 23, 2025
by
Tim Brinkhof
Wolf conservation in the European Union has become a political issue instead of a scientific and environmental one, leading to ineffective policymaking.

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