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Biologist Mel Sunquist mentored some of the world’s leading conservationists
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (149+ words) Radio collars began to change what was possible, allowing biologists to follow animals that had previously been known mostly through tracks, kills, and brief sightings. Among the scientists helping pioneer that work was Mel Sunquist, who died on May 9th at…...
For Lydia Möcklinghoff, the giant anteater was her life’s work
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (456+ words) The giant anteater is easy to treat as a curiosity: a narrow head, poor eyesight, strong claws, and a tongue that can reach beyond its mouth. Its life can appear simple until someone tries to study it. Then come harder…...
Gus Mills, carnivore conservationist and defender of the hyena
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (486+ words) Gus Mills spent a lifetime studying Africa’s carnivores On visits to Kruger National Park, children were awoken by Gus Mills at midnight to look for bushbabies and again at five in the morning to search for big cats. Wildlife kept…...
How Rainforest Action Network made distant forest destruction feel local
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (349+ words) Butler Nature When Rainforest Action Network began in 1985, it had little of what usually makes an organization powerful. It had no large budget, no legal department, no steady access to politicians, and no formal way to force corporations or development…...
Mike Salisbury and the art of waiting for the wild
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (251+ words) To Mike Salisbury, patience was not a virtue so much as a working method. Lions did not hunt on cue. Plants did not move at a human pace. Polar bears did not respect production schedules, or much else. The task…...
Conservation fails when it is treated as a project
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (350+ words) Conservation often sounds most persuasive when it is described as a plan. There are maps, budgets, governance models, community consultations, monitoring frameworks and theories of change. All are necessary. None is sufficient on their own. Luis Arranz, who has spent…...
Ted Turner’s other empire
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (528+ words) Ted Turner, who died today, liked to present himself as a businessman who had simply applied the same habits to a larger subject. First he bought a struggling billboard company and made it work. Then he built a television empire,…...
Tierney Thys, marine biologist who helped make sense of the ocean sunfish
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (291+ words) There was a practical side to her work—satellite tags, long waits for data, the technical challenges of tracking an elusive species across open water. But there were also moments of chance: a sea lion dropping a freshly caught sunfish…...
Wildlife rangers face the danger. They also carry the aftermath
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (441+ words) The gunfire began just before six in the morning. At first, Christine (Tina) Lain thought it might be a drill. Upemba National Park had prepared for attacks before. But the sound did not stop. It intensified. By the end of…...
The missing skill in conservation isn’t science. It may be resilience.
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (172+ words) Mongabay has in recent months published a series examining the well-being of people working to protect the planet, including the mental health of conservationists. A perspective published by a group of early-career practitioners is both a response to that coverage…...