When Well-Intended Environmentalism Backfires
Housing bats, buying an E.V., and planting trees sometimes end up being counterproductive.
Housing bats, buying an E.V., and planting trees sometimes end up being counterproductive.
The Fish and Wildlife Service inexplicably removes a species from its tally of species "delisted" under the Endangered Species Act.
Claims of the Act's success at recovering imperiled species are vastly overstated, especially on private land.
Tariffs and sugar subsidies have propped up overvalued land needed to fix the environmental damage.
The 2018 ban led to the loss of approximately 44,000 jobs and $28 million in revenue.
A legal fight over the Arctic grayling shows how regs can hurt rather than help.
A review of the new book Tickets For The Ark, by Rebecca Nesbit
A little readiness is a good hedge against the surprises the world just seems to keep throwing our way.
A push toward wind energy threatens to kill more eagles. Markets can help.
Insects aren't a category protected by the California Endangered Species Act. So state officials classified four bumblebee species as fish to get them listed.
Fifty percent of the state's water flows to the Pacific Ocean. Another 40 percent is used for agriculture. But it's average residents who are being forced to cut back.
"Conservation will ultimately boil down to rewarding the private landowner who conserves the public interest," wrote naturalist Aldo Leopold.
And produced with a much lower environmental footprint
Regulation and litigation rule the day, but sometimes cash should be king.
"I'm treated no differently from a common felon on parole."
But economic growth will reverse this trend by sparing lots more land for nature during this century.
There are better ways to pay for hiking trails.
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
The documentary filmmaker is teaming up with the privately funded conservation group.
Students for Liberty Conference on Free Market Environmentalism
Nongovernmental conservation is saving the planet
Bringing extinct animals back to life is now within our grasp, says Long Now Foundation researcher Ben Novak.
Restoring the herds and landscape seen by Lewis and Clark
"Decoupling" human economy from ecology could render large areas of pastures, croplands, and managed forests too remote for exploitation.
What happens when green populism meets environmental necessity
Money to go to species conservation, but animal activists are outraged
Government suspended its anti-poaching operation after only one month
Symbolic gesture signaling dedication to ending poaching
Hundreds have been killed this year
To pay for more government conservation workers
Reminder: Everything in Australia is venomous. Everything.
Non-native species introduced in 17th century threaten animal eggs
Did not like being asked about agency decisions at an Obama event
Wants to preserve potential fishing rights
U.S., New Zealand resolve fishing dispute that was getting in the way
Included because of the possibility of future losses, not current population
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