My involvement in the film The Great Bear Stakeout, which depicts the Grizzly’s struggle for survival in the wilderness of the Alaska Peninsula, is thus far, one of my career highlights. I actually don’t appear in this film that much, as I was mostly behind the scenes rigging up remote cameras, tracking wolves and missing [...]
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New Study Shows an Ice-Free Arctic Soon, But We Still Debate Whether Climate Change Models Can Be Trusted
The Arctic Ocean could be free of summer sea ice as soon as sometime in this decade, and it’s extremely likely by 2050, according to a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That’s much sooner than the previously projected time frame of after mid century. Not only has the timetable for [...]
Are Grizzlies Losing Federal Protections Too Soon?
When Lewis and Clark were exploring the West in 1805, it’s estimated that fifty thousand to one hundred thousand grizzly bears roamed the Great Plains. But by the late 1800s, as the West was getting settled, large animals were “cleared away” to make room for homesteading, mining, and ranching. Within a hundred years, the grizzly [...]
“Badger” Bat Recently Rediscovered
With species going extinct so rapidly today, hearing that a new animal has been identified is welcome news. A bat that looks like a badger was recently discovered in the Republic of South Sudan, Africa; and this one, particularly, caught my attention, since I come from the “Badger State” of Wisconsin. Bucknell University Associate Professor [...]
Reviving Extinct Animals: a Tool for Fighting Global Warming?
When National Geographic magazine came out with their cover story on de-extinction in April 2013, it set off quite a controversy. Now that we are on the scientific brink of being able to bring back long-gone species, proponents and critics are hotly debating whether we should. An intriguing side issue to this discussion relates to [...]
Indian Rhino Numbers Are Up, But Will Preserves Ultimately Help Poachers?
On the flood plains of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, lies Kaziranga National Park, one of the last areas in the eastern part of the country to be undisturbed by human presence. Here, the world’s largest population of one-horned rhinoceroses (Rhinoceros unicornis) — along with bears, elephants, panthers, highly endangered swamp deer, tigers, more [...]
