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Thoughts on Threatened Species

By Biohabitats / On June 12th, 2014
Post by Amy Nelson of Biohabitats, cross-posted from Rhizome with permission. It is true that in nature, species come and species go. On rare occasions they even return. Just this spring, a globally rare plant, Lobelia boykinii (Boykin’s lobelia), resurfaced in Delaware, a place in which it hadn’t been seen for over a century.
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Journey: Lessons from a Peripatetic Wolf

By Cristina Eisenberg / On May 28th, 2014
Remote camera image of wolf OR7, nicknamed Journey, in southwest Oregon, May 2014. Photo courtesy of Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife.
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#ForewordFriday: Red Pill/Blue Pill Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On May 9th, 2014
If you've flipped through the latest issue of the New Yorker, you may have spotted "Green is Good" (subscription required), which profiles The Nature Conservancy's president and CEO, Mark Tercek, and a few of the projects they've worked on since he joined the organization. The article mentions Keeping the Wild, a compilation of essays confronting the principles of the "new conservation" that Tercek supports, in
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Wood Ducks on a Wild River

By Eric Dinerstein / On April 30th, 2014
Originally published by Village News, a publication of the community of Cabin John, MD. Wild, undammed rivers make dangerous neighbors. A signboard near the riverbank at one of the National Park entrances offers direct evidence of the Potomac's perils—57 drownings in ten years between Great Falls and Little Falls—about an 11-mile stretch.
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#ForewordFriday: Rhino Latrine Edition

By Meghan Bartels / On April 18th, 2014
Some people collect coins, some people collect books; people like Eric Dinerstein collect sightings of rare species. In The Kingdom of Rarities, newly released in paperback, Dinerstein shares stories from his career spent traveling the world in search of Andean cocks-of-the-rock, armadillos, and saolas. As he travels, he shares stories of how these species affect the ecosystems they live in and how scientists are working to learn more about them and how they can be protected.
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Tracking the Ultimate Keystone Species

By Cristina Eisenberg / On April 1st, 2014
As an ecologist I have spent the past ten years of my professional career tracking apex predators and large herbivores and their effects on whole ecosystems. Abundant research from all sorts of systems demonstrates that when you allow dominant species, such as lions or elephants, to return to ecosystems, they affect many other species in those systems. For example, by toppling small trees, elephants help maintain the rich, open grassland habitat that provides a home for countless species, such as songbirds and insects.

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