Nature knows how to avoid network collapse
Nature shows a remarkable ability to take advantage of the benefits of complexity while avoiding its dangers. The problem for us is that humanity lacks nature’s experience of persisting through catastrophe.
Deforestation is Stressing Mammals
Scientists at Chicago’s Field Museum are researching how deforestation is affecting animals’ stress levels. Just like humans, it seems, animals are feeling the mental effects of climate change and deforestation.
Science, Indigenous knowledge outweighed by politics
Indigenous & local knowledge is used less than western science in British Columbia wildlife management and conservation, but regardless of knowledge type, the role of evidence is diminishing in final decisions concerning wildlife management and conservationWhy is animal conservation important? Animal conservation is important, because animals are the only mechanism to create biodiversity, which is the mechanism that creates a habitable planet for humans. Without animals, the energy from today’s plants (algae, trees, flowers etc) will eventually reach the atmosphere and ocean, much of it as carbon. The quantity of this plant-based waste is so More (Artwork credit: Tim Pitsiulak).
