conservation - Deceleration

Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

Apex predators are critical to healthy ecosystems. These determined biologists and wildlands advocates are out to prove that wolves and ranchers, scientists and politicians can coexist in the recovery of Mexican gray wolves.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 29 May 2025

Wolves and Humans Can Coexist, Efforts Across the U.S. Borderlands Show

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

Last week, the Trump Administration approved the first contract of its second term for new border barriers. Wildlife biologists and Indigenous rights organizers fear what comes next.

By Wendee Nicole

/ 24 Mar 2025

Jaguar Watch: What ‘Finishing the Wall’ Means for Borderland Cats

End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

As climate drought intensifies, San Antonio Water System’s 2025 termination of a conservation program popular among local eco-yard proponents highlights tensions between conservation and accessibility in the utility’s struggles for future water security.

By Rachel Cywinski

/ 15 Jan 2025

End of SAWS WaterSaver Rewards Program Prompts Disappointment, Reflection

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

Indigenous peoples face promise—and potential perils—in the struggle for wilderness conservation.

By Greg Harman

/ 27 Aug 2024

WILD12: ‘Land Back’ at the Center of Debates Over How to Preserve the Biosphere

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

“Either we face a lot of chaos, global disasters, tears from our relatives’ eyes … or we come together [and] unite as people of the world,” Arvol Looking Horse said.

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Aug 2024

WILD12: Humanity Must Choose a New Path to Avoid Rapid Ecological Breakdown, Lakota Spiritual Leader Says

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

Every four years the World Wilderness Congress convenes to assess the state of the planet and the health of the full and wondrous web of life that fills the Earth. Each convening brings new causes for alarm and urgency. But each convening also produces new reasons for hope.

By Greg Harman

/ 21 Aug 2024

Support Our Team at WILD12: The First World Wilderness Congress Hosted by Indigenous Peoples

3 Billion Birds Lost: How to Halt the Staggering Decline?

In 2019 a staggering study revealed North America had lost nearly 3 billion birds since 1970 — almost 30% of the total population, with declines in both common and rare species. The figures floored even the researchers.

By The Revelator

/ 11 Apr 2023

3 Billion Birds Lost: How to Halt the Staggering Decline?

‘Deep in the Heart’ Doc Treads Lightly as Anti-Conservation Disinfo Ramps Up

With pro-extinction extremists running the Republican Party, and dangerous climate tipping points ahead, does the world still have room for feel-good nature documentaries?

By Greg Harman

/ 1 Jul 2022

‘Deep in the Heart’ Doc Treads Lightly as Anti-Conservation Disinfo Ramps Up

American Stewards of Liberty: The Culture Warriors Out to Destroy ‘America the Beautiful’

Billions of dollars may soon be en route for US wildlife conservation. But a Texas-based org’s groundless ‘land grab’ warnings have seeded resistance across the West.

By Greg Harman

/ 22 Jun 2022

American Stewards of Liberty: The Culture Warriors Out to Destroy ‘America the Beautiful’

The Environmental Scientist Out to Decolonize Conservation

Indigenous communities ‘are seen as research subjects rather than researchers.’

By Greg Harman

/ 26 Feb 2022

The Environmental Scientist Out to Decolonize Conservation

We Can Live with Jaguars Again

More than a century after being driven from their historical territories from Texas to California, jaguars are returning to the United States. More than 25 years of experience in South and Central America illustrate how we can share the land with them successfully.

By Greg Harman

/ 25 Nov 2021

PODCAST: Liberty Heise on Monarchs, Marathons, Migration

Marisol Cortez As Día de los Muertos approaches – bedecking local H-E-Bs in all manner of commercialized Latinidad – another familiar ritual begins in the far northern reaches of the hemisphere. Like

By Marisol Cortez

/ 16 Oct 2019

PODCAST: Liberty Heise on Monarchs, Marathons, Migration