wildlife

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• 4/30/2023
  

  Bipartisanship Once Took Flight—To Protect Birds

  by Will McLean Greeley

  Senator George McLean's successful effort to pass the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, one of the most important conservation laws in American history, reflected two virtues in short supply in Washington today: bipartisan cooperation and humility. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/2023
  

  The Real Story Behind "Cocaine Bear"

  The real story of "Pablo Escobear" involves far less action by the bear and much more by a ring of smugglers during the cocaine boom of the 1980s. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/15/2022
  

  If a Biotech Firm Can Revive the Woolly Mammoth, There's No Law Stopping Them

  Governments are entirely unprepared to respond to the potential of private companies to produce de-extinction of wildlife. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  8/16/2022
  

  Does DNA Clear Up the Origin Story of Chincoteague Horses?

  Investigations of the origins of the wild horses of the mid-Atlantic coast remain inconclusive with respect to the horses, but they do demonstrate the human capacity to invest in a romantic narrative. 

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• SOURCE: Seattle Times
  6/26/2022
  

  Seattle's Audubon Chapter to Rename, Distance from Namesake's Racist Views

  “The shameful legacy of the real John James Audubon, not the mythologized version, is antithetical to the mission of this organization and its values,” said Claire Catania, executive director of the Seattle chapter, in a statement.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg CityLab
  4/21/2022
  

  Peter Algona: How Cities Became Accidental Wildlife Havens

  Algona's book traces the history of land use decisions that inadvertently allowed species, particularly the coyote, to spread across the United States even as the nation became more urbanized.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  11/12/2021
  

  What's in the Infrastructure Plan for Animals?

  Collisions between wildlife and vehicles are bad for animals and dangerous and costly to people and governments, too. The United States may take steps to catch up with technology to mitigate them. 

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  3/19/2021
  

  When Nature is Valued over Human Life

  A review of Jacob S. T. Dlamini’s "Safari Nation: A Social History of Kruger National Park" examines how the government of South Africa used tourism promotion to justify the establishment of its apartheid regime. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  12/20/2020
  

  Trump is Rolling back Protections for Migratory Birds. That’s a Problem

  by Kristoffer Whitney

  Relaxing regulations protecting migratory birds has potentially serious environmental consequences and throws out decades of science-driven activism.