The Complexities of Perceptions about Jaguars’ Impacts on Human Livelihoods — The Jaguar

Introduction Drs. Silvio Marchini and David Macdonald have just released a fascinating new study about the human dimensions of jaguar (Panthera onca) conservation in Brazil. Long-time readers of The Jaguar and its Allies may remember these authors. In 2015, I shared an article of theirs that used the Theory of Planned Behavior (Ajzen, 1985) to …

Kentucky Woman Branded ‘White American Savage’ After Posing With Dead Giraffe She Shot — TIME

Her actions are symbolic of a society that seems content to descend into hatred, intolerance, barbarism and almost total lack of compassion for animals or fellow citizen.  Killing a giraffe with a high-powered weapon doesn't take much skill and certainly no discernible level of intelligence. It does take a lust for death, destruction and an …

BBC News: DR Congo: Oil drilling allowed in wildlife parks

This world is now at the mercy - and entertainment - of barbarians who really don't give a crap about anyone or anything but their own shallow, superficial existence. Too greedy yet equally too stupid to realize the pricelessness of natural resources and wildlife. It's happening in the US - i.e., Alaska, Africa, everywhere. Maybe …

All life on Earth, in one staggering chart

From Vox "All life on Earth, in one chart What you’ll see below is a kind of tower of life. Each large block of this tower represents a gigaton of life, and the blocks are grouped into broad kingdoms. There are the protists (think microscopic life like amoebae), archaea (single-celled organisms somewhat similar to bacteria), …