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What Is ‘De-Extinction’ Really For?

Taylor Dotson The MIT Press Reader
Efforts to revive the Tasmanian tiger and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build.

How Much Is a Bat Worth?

Dale Manning, Anya Nakhmurina and Eli Fenichel The Conversation
Protecting these tiny insect‑eaters isn’t just good for farms and farmers – their deaths cost taxpayers and the wider economy.

The Water Wars Deciding the Future of the West

Kyle Paoletta The New Republic
From conservation to importing water from the Pacific, Democrats say they have all the answers to historic drought. The one thing no one wants to talk about: stopping the sprawl.

Forest Management: Let’s Reclaim Our Intentions

Sarah Hyden CounterPunch
With the warming and drying climate, and with a multitude of other stresses on forest ecosystems, the best course is less is more — much less. We cannot actually fix ecosystems, we can only support their natural healing process.

There Can be No Biodiversity Without Human Diversity

Fiore Longo Equal Times
If we want to save biodiversity, we must tackle the real causes, namely the exploitation of natural resources for profit and growing overconsumption, driven by the countries of the North.
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