Conservation & Ecological Ethics

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 ...

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 ...

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 —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 ...

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–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 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 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 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’ 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, ...