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Healthy Public and Private Lands
The ark in dry dock
Retooling the Endangered Species Act
The Secret Life of Trees: How Pens Are Preserving Old-Growth Forests
Pens from old-growth forests preserve the forest as well as its history.
Hunting Endangered Species
The scimitar horned oryx, the addax, the dama gazelle—endangered animals one would expect to encounter in Africa. Yet, as some Texas ranches are proving, helping to bring back large numbers of these endangered species can be a profitable pastime. As this 60 Minutes segment shows, by allowing a number of these animals to be hunted forContinue reading “Hunting Endangered Species”
Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform
In Rebuilding the Ark: New Perspectives on Endangered Species Act Reform, Jonathan H. Adler leads a group of environmental law experts in evaluating the ESA’s successes and failures and exploring multiple avenues for reform.
Colony Collapse Disorder: The Market Response to Bee Disease
This policy series on Colony Collapse Disorder, a mysterious phenomenon affecting honey bees, shows how real people resolve environmental problems.
Market proposed to end feud over whale hunting
Hoping to defuse a three-decade feud over whale hunting, three academics are making an audacious proposal: The world should put a price on killing whales and allow conservationists and whalers alike to bid on the right to take them.
Electrifying Pachyderms
Protecting the Aberdares ecosystem required keeping the local people from poaching the wildlife, grazing it with livestock, and cutting the indigenous trees for firewood. A 24-mile electric fence enclosing 850 square miles (one-quarter the size of Yellowstone National Park) could accomplish this task, but only if the locals saw a direct benefit from it. ByContinue reading “Electrifying Pachyderms”
Vermont schools the nation in woody biomass heating
Discussions of renewable energy typically focus on technologies such as solar panels, wind power, and geothermal. In one state, however, a different conversation is taking shape—one that is focusing on refining an age-old source of renewable energy: wood.
How Not to Save Wild Tigers
Banning private ownership of tigers is not going to save them from extinction.