This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Hungry gulls do not only steal our chips and sandwiches. They learn our habits, and look for reliable sources of food. That includes waste treatment centres, landfill or anywhere food…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Increasing demand for songbirds in the songbird trade is raising the risk of “secondary extinctions” of so-called “master birds” in Southeast Asia, conservationists warn. While these birds never enter the region’s…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Animal Charity Evaluators’ Better for Animals: Evidence-Based Insights for Effective Animal Advocacy resource is an ongoing project in which we distill key research on different animal advocacy interventions to help us…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Mexico’s sundry landscapes have few parallels. Straddling the northern boundary of the Tropic of Cancer, the country boasts low-lying deserts and humid rainforests, scrubby chaparral and tangled mangroves, with long…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I live with my family in a suburb of Cape Town, South Africa’s second-largest city, in a small neighborhood surrounded by conservation land. One afternoon in November 2020, my young…
The last time Rochelle Adams exercised her rights to subsistence fish in her ancestral waters was in 2019. A Gwich’in leader from the villages of Beaver and Fort Yukon, she…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It started in the summer of 2013. Sea stars were dying in huge numbers in Washington State’s Olympic National Park: They became covered in white lesions. Then their limbs contorted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. It was a race against nightfall. As he hurried across the sandy, bristling landscape of California’s Carrizo Plain, ecologist Ian Axsom stopped every 10 yards to place an aluminum live trap…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Porcupines are easy to recognize but hard to find — so elusive, in fact, that few people have ever seen one in the wild. Emilio Tripp, a wildlife manager and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. In Sri Lanka, agamid lizard species are growing increasingly vulnerable due to three main factors: shrinking habitats, climate change and being traded as exotic pets. The Indian Ocean island is…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Brandon Small’s pickup squeezes down a narrow dirt road lined with trees and bushes as we drive down the hillside towards the buffalo. We’re on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation in…
Few locations on Earth are as haunting or deeply ironic as so-called involuntary parks — places too toxic, dangerous, or otherwise made off-limits for human habitation, but which have paradoxically…