It's not just individual gardeners. Garden clubs, city park departments, major league sports franchises, homebuilding companies, and corporations are all planting native species and celebrating the bees, butterflies, and birds that turn up.
The truth is that even Paris is not doing nearly enough to restore streets for pedestrian use, and it’s the pedestrians, not the drivers, who should be furious. https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/city-streets-are-for-people-first
Some days, wildlife fieldwork can be glorious. Other days ...
The difference between Madison Grant & Donald Trump? Grant at least accomplished some good in his life, as a wildlife conservationist, before turning utterly bad. https://open.substack.com/pub/richardconniff/p/the-all-american-white-supremacist?r=1fcr4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true
To rescue the last surviving individual of a tree species, these two went down the edge of a cliff. https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/out-on-a-limb-for-a-tree-like-no?r=1fcr4
You can travel 10,000 miles for a great wildlife story. Or sometimes it just shows up in your living room. (Story by Richard Conniff, Photo by Joel Sartore)
https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/how-a-flying-squirrel-made-a-fool
Trump is doing everything in his power, and beyond, to crush the natural world. It’s pathological: He seems to regard all wildlife species as vermin, and any attempt to protect them as unjust interference with the unwritten but seemingly unstoppable right of corporations to eat up the world.
Read how to stop him:
https://richardconniff.substack.com/p/trump-be-damned-we-can-protect-our?r=1fcr4
