by Susan Keown | Mar 4, 2021 | ScienceWire
In her new book, “Beloved Beasts,” Michelle Nijhuis (@nijhuism) charts the history of the modern conservation movement through the lives and ideas of the people driving it. She gives us an in-depth look at how conservationists have taken on the challenge of saving...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 2, 2019 | ScienceWire
Elizabeth Bacher works at the Woodland Park Zoo in Seattle, so impressing her with conservation work isn’t easy. In a post for the zoo’s blog, though, Elizabeth writes about seeing “amazing” community-based conservation firsthand in Kenya. The post also has...
by Chris Tachibana | Jul 1, 2019 | ScienceWire
Over a month this spring, Wudan Yan filed four reports from Myanmar for Mongabay, a nonprofit conservation and environmental science news platform. Wudan (@wudanyan) looked at the environmental threat of harvesting mangroves for illegal coal production and a possible...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
Writing in The Atlantic and Undark, James Gaines tracks the fate of contraband taxidermied animals. Some have an educational function at Seattle’s Woodland Park Zoo. Others are used in basic research. A few end up in court—on the side of law enforcement, of course....
by Chris Tachibana | Apr 1, 2018 | ScienceWire
Our shorelines are armored, writes Maria Dolan in Ensia. But that isn’t necessarily good. Seawalls, rip-rap (jumbled boulders), and other ways of shoreline protection affect the local ecosystem. Maria writes about scientists in Washington State and elsewhere who...
