"The Great Plains: Bringing Back an ‘American Serengeti’"
"Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife."
"Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife."
"When he was growing up in the coastal California village of Bolinas in the 1980s, Ole Schell remembers, the monarchs that returned each fall to their overwintering sites seemed 'endless.'"
"As grizzlies recover, they’re no longer content to roam within the boundaries we’ve contrived for them."
"Defining conservation as a specific “use” of public lands is shaping up to be the primary point of legal opposition to a proposed federal lands rule that would prioritize conservation over fossil fuels extraction and allow public lands management to adapt to a changing climate."
"Huge green blooms are threatening wildlife, pets, people and cities. And algae season is only getting started."
"More companies are eschewing manicured grass in favor of native plants, a shift driven by the environmental costs of installing and maintaining lawns."
"More than a century after a mass bison slaughter, the animals are restoring Great Plains ecosystems and reinvigorating Indigenous customs like the sun dance."
"The United States is home to an enormous array of animal industries — including industrial agriculture, fur farming and the exotic pet trade — that pose a significant risk of creating infectious disease outbreaks in humans, according to a new report by experts at Harvard Law School and New York University."
A new book takes readers around the planet to better understand the world’s eight bear species and our relationships with them, including not just how we’ve popularized some but also the many ways we’ve mistreated or pushed others to the brink of extinction. In the new BookShelf, Frances Backhouse reviews Gloria Dickie’s just-published volume, “Eight Bears.” Plus, Freelance Files interviews Dickie.
"Scientists don bike helmets and dodge bird poop to babysit endangered terns out at sea."