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Conservation Ethics Podcast
Rethinking Ranger Programs with Maasai Women
Maasai women rangers are reshaping conservation while navigating evolving roles as professionals, caregivers, community members, and knowledge holders.
Local Ecological Knowledges for Herring Restoration
How can conservation institutions work with local ecological knowledge without extracting, compartmentalizing, or subordinating it to Western scientific frameworks?
How the world’s ‘Worst Word Ever: moist’ could be saving the planet
Few words make people cringe quite like “moist,” yet moisture may hold one of the keys to addressing climate change.
Lobsters: An Analysis of Their Lives and Deaths, and How They Influence Us
Lobsters occupy an unusual position in modern food systems: they remain wild until capture, arrive alive before they are eaten, and increasingly provoke concern about animal suffering. How that proximity reshapes multispecies relationships with food?
Food Beyond Sustenance: What Ethnography Reveals About Identity, Migration and Inequality.
From street vendors in Ghana to immigrant restaurants in the United States and lunchboxes in Japan, food is much more than what we eat. This roundtable reviews ethnographic studies to explore how food shapes identities, livelihoods, migration, and inequality.
Multispecies Politics in Yellowstone National Park
Through the case of bison management, this essay explores how conservation policies govern multispecies relations and reproduce tensions between ecological protection, Tribal sovereignty, and livestock interests.
Food Sovereignty in Madagascar
Through research on famine, foraging, rice cultivation, and cash-crop economies alongside a collaborative food-sharing activity, this essay examines tensions between biodiversity conservation, subsistence practices, and Malagasy post-colonial struggles for food sovereignty.
Ethics of Mollusk Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay
Oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay increasingly draws on Indigenous ecological histories and shell midden archaeology. But who has the right to access, interpret, and mobilize these knowledges?
Parks, Co-Management and the #LandBack Movement
Across North America, co-management is often presented as a progressive model for conservation. But when decision-making authority remains unequal, is shared management meaningful change or the continuation of older colonial structures?