Looking Back to Move Forward: Celebrating Ecological Restoration
By Biohabitats / On April 30th, 2015
When We Don't Know More Than We Let On
By Andy Dyer / On April 23rd, 2015
The ESA: Taking Noah's Ark into a Brave New World
By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 16th, 2015
Reposted from Cristina Eisenberg's Huffington Post blog with permission.
The Endangered Species Act (ESA), created in 1973 to prevent extinction, is one of the most powerful environmental laws on Earth. The U.S. federal government designed it to function like Noah's Ark: you bring aboard species that risk extinction, a process called listing, and then use the best science to save them.
El Lobo's Uncertain Future
By Cristina Eisenberg / On March 30th, 2015
Meet the Author: Q & A with ... Cristina Eisenberg!
By Meghan Bartels / On March 18th, 2015
In this installment of the occasional series, we hear from Cristina Eisenberg, author of The Carnivore Way.
Magical Thinking is Not Conservation
By Meghan Bartels / On March 10th, 2015
Post by David Johns, contributor to Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth.
When humans started to farm 12,000 years ago, they began to change the earth in basic ways, pushing aside other species to make room for themselves and those they favored, killing creatures they didn’t want and domesticating others, altering soils and water courses to suit themselves, and generally replacing ecological complexity with simplified landscapes.
How Did the Grizzly Bear Cross the Road?
By Cristina Eisenberg / On March 9th, 2015
Reposted from Cristina Eisenberg's blog at the Huffington Post with permission.