In this month's issue of Orion Magazine, I wrote a brief piece on the idea of bringing back North America's charismatic megafauna, and its potential benefits to society along with the challenges involved. Click here to read the article....
Posted on June 26, 2008 5:49 PM • 4 Comments •
In some conservation circles, there has been a lot of talk lately about the newly planned damns in southern Chile. In some ways, its a classic debate: finding a balance between energy needs and preserving wild places. But a different...
Posted on June 22, 2008 4:36 PM • 3 Comments •
Back in 2005 when my colleagues and I proposed using closely related species to ecological replace extinct large North American animals, there were many who cried foul. Too risky, won't work, impossible to measure - were among the top of...
Posted on May 26, 2008 3:11 AM • 4 Comments •
Thanks to everyone who participated in the short survey - all 286 of you. Below shows the percentage of folks that were in favor of reintroducing our case studies under a scientific framework. Interesting indeed, although one person made the...
Posted on March 25, 2008 9:05 AM • 3 Comments •
Ok, I would really like people to weigh in on this one. Jennifer is in the Galapagos, so I figured I might as well write about them. And what better topic to write about than rewilding the Galapagos. Here's the...
Posted on March 19, 2008 2:00 PM • 10 Comments •
So I think this is the first-ever Shifting Baselines survey. I hope you're keen, and I hope you will forward the survey to friends and colleagues far and wide. Here's a bit of background. In 2005, my colleagues and I...
Posted on March 17, 2008 5:00 AM • 15 Comments •
I'm lying. But here I am blogging on Shifting Baselines. Over the past six years or so, I've spent a decent part of my energy thinking and writing about ecological history and its role in biodiversity conservation and society. That...
Posted on March 3, 2008 3:00 AM • 13 Comments •