Conservation

To help animals navigate our fast-paced highway systems nature conservationists have started building infrastructure designed specifically for critters.

• By Sarah Holder

Specially trained canines, with their outsized capacity to sniff out even well-hidden people and objects, are helping rangers at several major reserves to do their jobs better.

• By Sue Palminteri

Conflict over the Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta has played out over decades of back-and-forth between regulators and farmers.

• By Emily Moon

A new study in Madagascar shows that forest conservation projects come at a great price to the local population, many of whom are already struggling economically.

• By John C. Cannon

Documents accidentally shared by the Department of the Interior reveal the prioritization of energy, ranching, and logging in the monuments review.

• By Rebecca Worby

Environmental experts warn that many of these projects could cause irreversible damage in highly biodiverse areas.

• By Basten Gokkon

Senator Mike Lee of Utah wants to take away public lands. His reasons are all wrong.

• By Jimmy Tobias

Conservationists believe Andrew Wheeler, the acting administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, may be even more dangerous than his predecessor.

• By Kate Wheeling

The number of visitors to Joshua Tree National Park has doubled in the past four years, an increase that spells trouble for local flora and fauna. But as tourism has increased, so have the numbers of conscious residents and conservation efforts.

• By Max Genecov

As global warming forces farmers in northwestern Rwanda to move to higher elevations, the fragile gorilla population will be put more at risk.

• By Elham Shabahat

Flamingoes are seen at Lake Amboseli from a spotter plane overhead during a trial run for an aerial animal census at the Amboseli National Park on June 21st, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

The proposed mine would sit within Cenderawasih Bay National Park, while parts of it also overlap onto or border the Wondiwoi Mountains Nature Reserve—both protected areas.

• By Basten Gokkon

We spoke with surfing sage Steve Hawk about how the new breed of artificial wave pools may reshape the soul of the sport.

• By Zachary Slobig

Inside the effort to reintroduce grizzlies to California.

• By Jeremy Miller

Anatomy of a Fact is a recurring series exposing how the Pacific Standard research and fact-checking process works.

• By Ben Rowen

California Governor Jerry Brown signed two bills into law Thursday aimed at reducing water consumption in the state, even in non-drought conditions.

• By Kate Wheeling

Locals in one of the country's vital biodiversity hotspots have found that traditional farming methods are helping them produce more crops while preserving the forest.

• By Sophie Mbugua

A conversation with Emily Callahan and Amber Jackson of the firm Blue Latitudes, which consults on projects where retired rigs are transformed into reefs and hotels.

• By Ian Evans

The program is aimed at helping wildlife trade enforcement agencies benefit from the experience of their colleagues in neighboring countries.

• By Sue Palminteri

The results of Idaho's gubernatorial primaries suggest a positive shift for conservation.

• By Jimmy Tobias

On the latest episode of Pacific Standard's podcast about how our stories are made, a feature story about Australian plant ecologist Brenton Ladd—an outsider who wants to save the region's trees.

• By Pacific Standard Staff
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Teams of researchers are trying to uncover the cause of death for 31 Verraux's sifakas Lemurs—which could spell the end for the critically endangered species.

• By Edward Carver

Kanchanaburi, Thailand: Two tigers cool off at Wat Pha Luang Ta Bua Yannasampanno, a Buddhist temple that once doubled as a wildlife refuge. Thai authorities later removed the tigers after allegations of wildlife trafficking.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Rules intended to protect people from pollution are simultaneously saving the lives of whales by slowing down cargo ships, but researchers say more still needs to be done.

• By Matthew O. Berger