Maasai women rangers are reshaping conservation while navigating evolving roles as professionals, caregivers, community members, and knowledge holders.
Rethinking Ranger Programs with Maasai Women
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?
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?
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.
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?
Podcast – Lab Animals as Collaborators: Response-ability and Care in Research
Animal testing often evokes strong images and intense debate that draw binaries of pro or against. Through the concepts of Donna Haraway and case studies, we discuss the nuances and opportunities to balance research outcomes with more thoughtful relationships between people and lab animals.
Podcast – Seeing What the Law Can’t: Rights of Nature and the Anthropo-Not-Seen
Drawing on Marisol de la Cadena’s concept of the “anthropo-not-seen,” we discuss whether granting legal rights to nature can create visibility for Indigenous ontologies, or if it risks reinforcing the very systems that have historically erased them.
Podcast – Plants Are People Too: Debating the Ethics of Anthropomorphism in Conservation
How does anthropocentrism shape scientific relationships with plants and animals?
Podcast – The Politics of Life: How Valuation of Species Impacts Conservation
How and why people choose which species to value in conservation?
Conservation Ethics Syllabus Fall 2025
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