Tigers, 3,000; Homo sapiens, 7.4 billion
Man continues his march using poorly chosen metrics to measure his success, namely, growth at any cost. This thought, and the number... Read More
A Heartwarming Look at Californians’ Love Affair with Their Wildlife
Book Review of When Mountain Lions Are Neighbors: People and Wildlife Working It Out in California By Beth Pratt-Bergstrom Several years ago,... Read More
Booming Illegal Trade in Wildlife is Decimating World’s Biodiversity
Today is World Environment Day (WED), designated by the United Nations as a day to increase worldwide awareness of our environment and... Read More
Mother Nature Drugged with Our Pharmaceuticals
In 1996, pharmacologist and wildlife toxicologist Theo Colborn, Ph.D. (1927-2014) published her landmark book, Our Stolen Future, coauthored with Dianne Dumanoski and... Read More
Give Pause to Consider All Wildlife on World Lion Day
Since the story broke of Walter Palmer, who lured Cecil the lion out of a protected park in Zimbabwe, shot him with... Read More
Human Population May Doom King of Beasts
Recently I read a figure I found quite shocking, given my memories from childhood. When I was a kid in the 1950s,... Read More
An Ironic Way to Celebrate World Environment Day
June 5 is World Environment Day World Environment Day is sort of a global version of Earth Day. It was first established... Read More
Is Abundant Human Population Compatible with Abundant Wildlife Populations?
As an undergraduate majoring in fisheries and wildlife management, I learned numerous wildlife management techniques, tools and technologies. Later, as a fisheries... Read More
Pulling No Punches: Veteran Conservationist Dave Foreman Indicts Overpopulation– and Mass Immigration – In Demise of Wildlife
Arch-conservationist Dave Foreman is neither subtle nor equivocal in identifying human overpopulation as the overriding cause of the Earth’s contemporary biodiversity crisis. ... Read More