Wildlife selfies harm animals − even when scientists share images with warnings in the captions
Wildlife selfies harm animals − even when scientists share images with warnings in the captions Author: Andrea L. DiGiorgio, Princeton University | Published: February 14, 2024 8:20am EST One of the biggest privileges of being a primatologist is spending time in ...
2023 EwA Conservation Digest Collection
The 2023 EwA Conservation Digest Collection General □ Participatory Science at EwA (Live StoryMap): An interactive StoryMap about EwA's program: its model, what the projects are, who EwA engages, and the program's impact. The StoryMap is also an invitation to ...
2022 EwA Conservation Digest Collection
The 2022 EwA Conservation Digest Collection General □ Participatory Science at EwA (Live StoryMap): An interactive StoryMap about EwA's program: its model, what the projects are, who EwA engages, and the program's impact. The StoryMap is also an invitation to ...
Caring for Frogs and Salamanders in their Own Home
Caring for Frogs and Salamanders —Herping Ethically 🐸 This season, we've seen a lot of posts showing salamander egg masses displaced from their original anchor spots, pics of lifted masses, and of flipped logs showing red-backed salamanders. It’s fun to ...
2021 EwA Conservation Digest Collection
The 2021 EwA Conservation Digest Collection General □ The 2021 EwA Conservation Highlights (Released: Dec. 30th, 2021): A 8-page summary of our work this past year, a shortlist of our accomplishments, and a few favorite infographics. □ The 2021 EwA ...
Environmental Worldviews Glossary
Environmental Worldviews–A Short Glossary of Terms Compiled as a resource for EwA's Ethics courses. Ethics Courses: [EwA-E1] Positive Eco-Ethics in a Human-Dominated World | [EwA-E2] Conservation Biodiversity Research & Field Ethics [Disclaimer] This compilation only intends to list a few ...
Over-Collecting (Mushrooms)
Over-collecting Mushrooms Not too long ago, I led a mushroom walk in central Massachusetts for the North Country Land Trust. Just prior to my foray, there’d been a mycological club foray at the same site, and the vast number of ...
Don’t Hike so Close to Me: How the Presence of Humans Can Disturb Wildlife up to Half a Mile Away
Don’t hike so close to me: How the presence of humans can disturb wildlife up to half a mile away Authors: Jeremy Dertien (Clemson University), Courtney Larson (University of Wyoming), and Sarah Reed (Colorado State University) Millions of Americans are ...
‘Bee-washing’ Hurts Bees and Misleads Consumers
'Bee-washing' Hurts Bees and Misleads Consumers Amid the worry over the loss of honey bees, a far quieter but just as devastating loss is occurring among lesser-known native bee populations. Wild native bees are vital to pollinate plants. Their populations ...
Plant Blindness & the Extinction Crisis
‘Plant blindness’ is obscuring the extinction crisis for non-animal species Up to a million species may go extinct due to human activity according to a recent report, some within decades. We all know the mammals in trouble – polar bears, ...
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