Conservation

  • The collapse of the world’s fisheries, a visual guide.

    Ken Cole

    The World Wildlife Fund has published a map that shows how intensively our oceans are being fished in comparison to 1950. The map is pretty startling and, with a rapidly growing world population that consumes more and more, it looks only to get worse. Is it possible that the world’s fisheries could collapse in our…

  • ‘Whale war’ kicks off as Japan sends strengthened fleet to Antarctica

    Ken Cole

    Last year, due to the constant disruption of the Japanese whaling fleet by the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, the massive earthquake, and the resulting tsunami, it looked like the whalers had given up. Unfortunately they plan on returning to the Southern Ocean to hunt whales again this year and Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd…

  • ‘Republicans for Environmental Protection’ – Endangered Species?

    Ralph Maughan

    The word “conservation” and conservative are closely related, but there seems no room for conservationists in today’s radicalized Republican Party- So-called “conservative” Republican activists are bent on tearing down protections for the land, water, wildlife, and human safety from toxic elements. Below the New York Times blog interviews the head of the group Republicans for…

  • A chance to participate in a new study on carnivore conservation and management

    Ralph Maughan

    We are posting this intriguing research effort by Dr. Jeremy Bruskotter. You are invited to participate. Readers of the Wildlife News: My colleagues and I are preparing a nationwide survey to help us better understand people’s preferences for large carnivore conservation and management.  In particular, we are interested in understanding the attitudes and policy preferences…

  • Has the Japanese Whaling Fleet Surrendered?

    Ken Cole

    Activism at work. I’ve never written about this here but I have been following this campaign for many years and I have been acquainted with a number of people who have volunteered for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society over those years. Of all of the anti-whaling groups out there they are the most effective but…

  • Cars and Cows

    Brian Ertz

    Earlier in Oil & Gas eyes your public lands I asked a question of Interior’s plans to “solve” America’s energy woes by opening up vast public lands to the oil & gas industry : Are energy reserves that may or may not be accessible on your public lands worth the cost to wildlife, our environmental…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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