Orca's Best Friend

Columns, June 2009.

Samuel Wasser, head of the Center for Conservation Biology at the University of Washington, enlists the help of extremely playful dogs to save endangered species.

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Bye, Bye, Birdie

World Watch, July/August 2006.

How many of the world's species are humans driving out of existence? And how do we know? A detailed look at the extinction crisis.

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Helping, Half a World Away

Earth Island Journal, Vol. 19 No. 3, Autumn 2004, pages 12-13 of “Disappearing Act: A special section on endangered species.”

How the International Snow Leopard Trust, a conservation organization based in Seattle, Washington, is helping save an endangered species of cat that lives in the remote mountains of Central Asia.

Dark Secret of the Lake

New Scientist, Vol. 181 No. 2436, 28 February 2004, pages 40-43.

Lake Victoria’s cichlid fish have suffered a terrible decline in the past 20 years, but the prime culprit is not what scientists initially suspected.

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Lost and Found

Conservation in Practice, Vol. 4 No. 3, Summer 2003, pages 32-38.

In Lake Victoria, researchers have rediscovered an “extinct” cichlid. Capitalizing on this serendipitous conservation opportunity, they have found a way to reconcile species recovery and fisheries.

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What Really is an Evolutionarily Significant Unit?

Conservation Biology in Practice, Vol. 3, No. 1, Winter 2002, pages 10-17. (Cover article.)

The debate over integrating genetics and ecology in conservation biology.

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