By Jonathan Runstadler, Tufts University and Kaitlin Sawatzki, Tufts University Cover image: Peter Trimming via Wikipedia, CC BY-SA Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers have found coronavirus infections in pet cats and dogs and in multiple zoo animals, including big cats and gorillas. These infections have even happened when staff were using personal […]
Conservation affects everyone’s quality of life, and we need to make sure that everyone has a voice.
How our reflexive mistrust of authority hurts America By E.E. Robakis Defiance is a deeply American trait, rendered, for better or worse, into a national pastime. Americans are chronically, debilitatingly anti-authority; this has deep roots in the colonization of North America by Europeans and the establishment of this country as a “safe haven” from tyrannical […]
By Milan Sime Martinic Banner Photo: Fire at Ambue Ari. Courtesy of CIWY. More than 120 major fires have been detected in Bolivia’s Amazon rainforest and dry forests of Chiquitano since March, according to the nonprofit Monitoring of the Andean Amazon Project (MAAP). One of these fires is now threatening an animal sanctuary in Guarayos, […]
Sure, the recently announced Nobel Prizes are a big deal, but the 2020 Ig Nobel Prizes bring a little lightness during these heavy times By Kathleen Apakupakul What does the size of your eyebrows have to do with how vain you are? What does kissing have to do with how well your country’s economy is […]
“Love of life is the guide and motivator of ecological healing on Earth. Next comes learning how to put that love into action. How do we do that for that most alive of all places, the Amazon?” By Charles Eisenstein The Amazon is one of the most intensely alive places on Earth. I won’t bore […]
The same facts will sound different to people depending on what they already believe. By Adrian Bardon, Professor of Philosophy, Wake Forest University Bemoaning uneven individual and state compliance with public health recommendations, top U.S. COVID-19 adviser Anthony Fauci recently blamed the country’s ineffective pandemic response on an American “anti-science bias.” He called this bias […]
“The science is clear that if we keep exploiting wildlife and destroying our ecosystems, then we can expect to see a steady stream of these diseases jumping from animals to humans in the years ahead.” By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams “Climate change is a force of growing importance that influences the future geographic distribution and […]
By Ben Lybarger Back in 2018, I shared a dorm room in Bolivia with a veterinary surgeon from Italy, and at times also a baby macaw or squirrel monkey that he would wake up every couple of hours to feed. His name was Cristian Tirapelle, and we were both working with Comunidad Inti Wara Yassi (CIWY) at […]
By Ben Lybarger By now we all have seen viral posts of penguins and tortoises strolling the empty corridors of zoos and aquariums in place of human visitors. While these videos succeed in giving the public a reason to smile amidst the current pandemic, they do not tell the whole story. Just as our own […]
