Why not to Fall in Love (Too Deeply) with the Amazons Little Lions

By Olivia Crowe   @oliviakcrowe Crouching at the base of a tree, breathing slowly to keep my binocular-clad hands steady. I watch as all but one flurry of grey scatters out of sight. Tiny, the two-month old infant is still clinging to the underside of a low branch on the large feeding-tree. As hot beads of...

Beetles for Breakfast? Meet the Communities Swapping Bacon for Bugs Across the Globe!

Take your taste buds to Uganda, where local communities are pioneering innovative sustainable diets. Grasshoppers, anyone?

From raiding neigbours to strategic feeders. The story of a baboon troop

By Massimiliano Lovatelli  @wonderingbeyond It is probable that you never had a troop of baboons as neighbours. We all love a good story, so let me tell you a Baboon story, or more specifically the story of my neighbours, the Eburru Cliffs troop. Their story began in 1970 when the GilGil Baboon Project, now the...

Palm Oil: Spare or Share?

Flying east from Kota Kinabalu to Lahad Datu in the northern Bornean state of Sabah, Malaysia gives two conflicting views of tropical forests. For those on the right-hand side of the plane, the view is a complex rainforest matrix of blues and greens representing some of the most biologically diverse forest on earth. For those...

Lessons for Rewilding: Condors, Partnerships and a Bunch of Dead Cows

The California coast attracts visitors not only for the aesthetically pleasing ocean views, but also for the glimpse of a bird that puts vultures to shame: the California Condor (Gymnogyps californianus). Although spotting North America’s largest land bird is still a rare occurrence, the chances of seeing this critically endangered bird today are much greater...

Animal behaviour: it’s a tool conservationists can use

You’d be forgiven for thinking an in-depth understanding of animal behaviour has little to offer conservation. After all, what could detailed insights into the eating, sleeping and mating patterns of animals possibly offer to landscape-scale conservation problems such as habitat loss and invasive species? Conservation problems have traditionally been addressed by tools including protected area...

Does fishy science leave nature scraping the barrel?

This month, November 2017, a new season of scallop fishing begins in Cardigan Bay, off the west coast of Wales. Cardigan Bay. Janet Baxter. Web. Accessed 12/11/17. https://www.cardigan-bay.com/llangrannog-cardigan-bay-wales.php At first sight this seems unremarkable – Cardigan Bay has supported a high abundance of king scallops and a profitable scallop fishery for many years. But conservationists...

Seal or Salmon? Sustainable meat with an adorable face

Choosing sustainably sourced meat in Canada may have just gotten a whole lot more difficult.

Looking beyond the Fortress: Expanding the Conservation Workspace in India

The year 1991 marked a major milestone for the Indian economy - a period when India opened its arms to the private sector, a giant leap forward for the country in its attempts to enhance the well being of its citizens. It is a popular discourse that increased growth (a given after liberalisation) would definitely...

Small islands or big oceans?

How big do you think the Pacific islands are? To paraphrase,  Epeli Hau'ofa when we think about the Pacific are we talking about small islands in a distant sea or are we really talking about a sea of islands? Are we talking small islands or big oceans? The answer is very much a matter of...