Untitled 22 Oct 2012 | 11:49 am

BAT APPRECIATION WEEK (part ii) 14 Apr 2012 | 05:19 am

The same factors that keep the average schlemiel oblivious to the bats around him make it difficult for the odd interested party to study and understand them; they live in a world to which we are deaf...

BAT APPRECIATION WEEK (part i) 13 Apr 2012 | 05:06 pm

The United Nations Bat Convention an Bat Conservation International have deemed this the year of the bat, and this week "Bat Appreciation Week," which gives me a chance to update and recycle some old ...

EXHIBITION IN THE GREATER NYC AREA 21 Dec 2011 | 12:28 pm

BIODIVERSITY in the ART of CAREL PIETER BREST van KEMPEN is now up at the Hiram Blauvelt Art Museum in Oradell, New Jersey. The show includes 50 original paintings spanning over twenty years. If you'l...

THE MOST VULNERABLE ONES 29 Sep 2011 | 07:05 pm

Ninety-seven years ago this month, a pigeon named Martha died in the Cincinnati Zoo. She was the last member of a species that had numbered around 5 billion just a century earlier—the most abundant bi...

TODAY'S LOGIC QUIZ 10 Sep 2011 | 11:15 am

Yesterday, Matt from Florida phoned in to “Talk of the Nation,” National Public Radio's weekday call-in show. The topic concerned the effects of government policies on hiring in the private sector. He...

CONSERVATION vs. MANAGEMENT 26 Aug 2011 | 10:55 am

Forming good natural resource policies first requires looking to the future, and establishing what objectives we want to reach and what kind of outcomes we want to avoid. I like to divide the strategi...

REFECTIONS ON CONSERVATION, PART I: WHY CONSERVE? 7 May 2011 | 05:14 pm

Cŏn-sērve', v. “to keep in a safe or sound state; to save, to preserve from loss, decay, waste, or injury; to defend from violation.” -Webster's Dictionary At a recent public meeting, I was accused o...

...DROP TOGETHER 10 Jan 2011 | 12:59 pm

While walking home yesterday, I noticed a dark, cylindrical form teetering on the sidewalk's edge. The fresh carcass of a European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) was cool but still limp. Finding one of t...

TECHNOLOGY OFFERS HOPE FOR CURBING CLIMATE CHANGE 29 Nov 2010 | 08:50 pm

Just a few examples in honor of all the delegates who've jetted down to Cancun to pretend there's an agreement to hammer out... _____________________ images ripped off from the internet by CPBvK