Conservation of Resources
The Cheetahs Made a Kill. Then the Safari Trucks Swarmed In.
The video surfaced online around October. Filmed from a distance, it shows an antelope grazing on the African plain. Suddenly, two cheetahs race toward it and the antelope takes off, running toward the camera. But the cats are too fast. They converge on it and bring it down. They begin to feed. Almost at that […]
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At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water
In a transfixing two-minute video called “River (The Water Serpent)” in the Metropolitan Museum’s American Wing we see a drone shot of a snow-flecked landscape where a crowd has gathered. Each of its members holds a vertical mirrored panel. Together, on cue, they place the panels horizontally over their heads, reflective side skyward, and begin […]
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To Catch a Snake: Largest Python Found in Everglades Signals a Threat
The state is seeking to improve detection of pythons in the wild, because they are skilled at camouflaging and settling in remote areas, Ms. Spencer said. “We need to try multiple methods, multiple ways to try to control these animals,” she said. Burmese pythons were introduced to the Everglades in the 1980s by the exotic […]
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As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’
SALT LAKE CITY — If the Great Salt Lake, which has already shrunk by two-thirds, continues to dry up, here’s what’s in store: The lake’s flies and brine shrimp would die off — scientists warn it could start as soon as this summer — threatening the 10 million migratory birds that stop at the lake […]
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Behold the Lionfish, as Transfixing as It Is Destructive
The silence underwater is overwhelming. Time passes quickly. Having spotted my target, I focus on it intensely, knowing that if I miss, and the animal gets away, it may learn from the encounter and be harder to hunt in the future. As I approach, armed with my spear, I watch as the fish spreads its […]
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New Zealand’s Biodiversity Crisis Prompts Extreme Measures
WELLINGTON, New Zealand — The volunteer clambered down the cliffs, progressing along a series of knots on a thin rope as he made his perilous way about 100 feet down a steep rock face to the small box that he needed to refill with poison. It is one of thousands of such boxes, many in […]
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U.S. Allows Hunters to Import Some Elephant Trophies From African Countries
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service informed some hunters last month that it would allow the import of six elephant trophies into the United States from Zimbabwe. The African elephant carcasses will be the first allowed into the country in five years. The decision reverses an agencywide hold on processing elephant trophy import permits that […]
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Billionaires Battle Over a Hotel and Quality of Life on St. Barts
The Dupré companies started the projects as the island was dealing with new concerns about sustainability. A 2016 Wildlife Conservation Society report stated that the island’s environment is “rapidly degrading” because of land-based pollution draining into the sea and destroying marine habitats, urbanization and overfishing. A year later, Hurricane Irma devastated the island, worsening an […]
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In Search of Panama’s Elusive Spider Monkeys
For a brief moment, as hundreds of blue morpho butterflies floated gracefully around us, the green hues of the tropical forest were transformed into a neon blue. But the dreamlike scene, reminiscent of something out of James Cameron’s “Avatar,” was interrupted by a series of loud chirps from the canopy above. Straining my eyes to […]
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