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A newborn bison calf in Yellowstone National Park had to be euthanized after a visitor handled it in May 2023 – a recent example of how trying to help wild animals often harms them.
Crowding is increasingly affecting all kinds of public lands. Adjoining communities need to find ways to manage it, or risk harm to the attractions that make them a destination.
Now begins a long and difficult process to recover vast areas of forest after more than 50 years of destructive logging.
Governments and wildlife advocates are working to protect 30% of Earth’s lands and waters for nature by 2030. An ecologist explains why creating large protected areas should be a top priority.
The mountain range in south Wales is now officially only known by its native Welsh-language name
Invasive species cause billions of dollars in damage across the US every year. Hikers and backpackers can take simple steps to avoid spreading seeds and making the problem worse.
Conservation is a government job, right? Not any more. Here’s why the enormous growth in land managed by conservation NGOs is a boon to our environment
Plath’s sublime nature poetry deserves widespread appreciation for its unfettered joy and deep attunement to the natural world.
Lake Powell’s existential crisis is a unique opportunity to save a treasured landscape.
The idea that human activity threatens nature, and that it is important to protect wild places, dates back to the dawn of the Industrial Revolution.
China has rich natural resources and is seeking to play a leadership role in global conservation, but its economic goals often take priority over protecting lands and wildlife.
To address the climate and biodiversity crises, we must stop criminalizing Indigenous Peoples for exercising their treaty rights and start upholding them instead.
You’re meant to carry out your poo, if you visit Australia’s alpine backcountry. But not many people do – and it’s leaving plenty of evidence.
Wilderness gives our mental health a real boost. But growing private interests in national parks are stopping those less well off from free nature therapy.
Australia’s protected areas have grown and grown. But at the same time, ecosystems are falling apart. How can that be?
The recent goring of a tourist who approached within 10 feet of a bison in Yellowstone National Park is a reminder that wild animals can be dangerous and people should keep safe distances.
During spring and summer, as more people consider exercising outdoors, a trauma- and violence-informed approach to physical activity can help ensure equity, inclusion, safety and access.
Parks and refuges are important for conservation, but without connections, they’re like islands. Linking them by protecting land in between makes it possible for wildlife to move over bigger areas.
Efforts to fast-track a review of stewardship land could result in more mining access to conservation land as the governments wants to prioritise land where mining applications have already been made.
Top contributors
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
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Professor in Wildlife Ecology and Conservation, School of Life & Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Emeritus Professor of Life Sciences, Arizona State University
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Professor of Pyrogeography and Fire Science, University of Tasmania
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Distinguished Research Professor and Australian Laureate, James Cook University
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Postdoctoral research fellow, School of Biological Sciences, The University of Queensland
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Associate Professor, Murdoch University
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Professor and Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research), University of Sydney
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Adjunct Professor, University of Canberra
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Honorary Research Fellow, School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University
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Professor, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, The University of Queensland
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Professor of Environmental Management, The University of Queensland
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Postdoctoral fellow, Decision Science, The University of Queensland
