The Plight of the Grey Wolf
The United States government, under the Trump administration, announced in October that the grey wolf will no longer receive federal protection under the endangered species list. This decision has been met with criticism from conservation groups and researchers including four of the five researchers tasked with the independent review of the proposal. The Department of […]
Why it’s Critical to Save the World’s Last Wild Places
In science, it’s rare that a new idea comes along that stops people in their tracks. For ecologists, this has just happened, in a paper that found that species living in wild places have more genetic diversity than the same species living in areas dominated by people. Wilderness areas have shrunk by a tenth globally […]
