Writer exploring the connection between biodiversity/wildlife loss and overpopulation. Editorials, white papers, features, releases, blog posts and web content. Available for freelance assignments.
Maria Fotopoulos: Environmentalists Abdicate Leadership in Addressing Overpopulation
World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues,” came and passed on July 11.
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Earth Day Virtually at Our Carbon Footprint
Conceptualized and developed 50th Anniversary of Earth Day campaign with website and social media components.
Yellowstone’s grizzlies at risk from bullets
“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in Aldo Leopold’s 1949 A Sand County Almanac, a seminal work in the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
The Fight to Stop Poaching: What If We’ve Been Doing It Wrong?
After ten years of working on the front lines fighting poaching in Africa, Australian Damien Mander has thought a lot about best practices for protecting wildlife in the face of the Sixth Extinction. The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) founder had approached the work of saving rhinos from extinction with a “fairly militant approach,” he’ll tell you.
Grizzly bears in danger in our oldest national park
“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in 1949 in Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac,” which influenced the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area from protection under the Endangered Species Act. When listed in 1975 as threatened w...
Grizzly bears in danger in our oldest national park
“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in 1949 in Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac,” which influenced the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area from protection under the Endangered Species Act. When listed in 1975 as threatened w...
Maria Fotopoulos: Grizzly Bears Deserve More Protection Than Government Is Giving Them
“The national parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.”
These words were published in 1949 in ecologist Aldo Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, one of the significant literary contributions to the birth of the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone National Park area from the pro...
OPINION: Wildlife wants D.C. swamp drained, too
If the many threatened and endangered animals around the world could speak English, right about now they'd be shouting, "Drain the swamp!" D.C. shenanigans targeting those who cannot speak for themselves are scandalous, with the latest outrage the reversal of the reinstatement of the ban on the importation of animal "trophies" - body parts - from African elephants and other wildlife in Zambia and Zimbabwe.Confusing? Extremely.In November 2017, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced li...
More Nations Need to Step Up to Save Elephants
President Donald Trump recently made headlines when he said he would not allow trophies from legal elephant hunts to be imported into the United States. Although this was the right move, it isn’t enough to stop elephants from being slaughtered into extinction.
Amazing creatures with a life expectancy of 60 to 70 years, African elephants lead complex emotional and social lives. They carry their babies for two years — the longest gestation of any mammal. Their calves then nurse for several year...
Cheetahs, 7,500; Humans, 7.5 Billion
Commentary on loss of wild cheetahs, facing possibility of extinction in 15 years.
Maria Fotopoulos: Controversial Guggenheim Animals Exhibit Raises Questions about Art
“The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated,” said Mahatma Gandhi, who led the Indian independence movement against Britain.
In the United States, and nations throughout the world, that’s a measure continuously tested.
Rangers Provide Thin Green Line Protecting Wildlife Against ...
Rangers Provide Thin Green Line Protecting Wildlife...
Reader View: Finding value in coyotes | My View | santafenewmexican.com
Reader View: Finding value in coyotes | My View | s...
Maria Fotopoulos: On World Population Day, Only Growing ...
Maria Fotopoulos: On World Population Day, Only Gro...
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