• The case against zoos: the "educational" and conservation benefits of zoos are outweighed by the suffering they cause to animals — maybe we should focus more on botanical gardens instead — Emma Marris, New York Times
• How humans have unintentionally influenced the evolution of wild animals and the environment: our relationships with — and responsibilities toward — the planet's wild animals — Emma Marris, Literary Hub
• Species solidarity: rediscovering our connection to the web of life: thinking deeper about what we mean when we say "nature," "the wild," and "wilderness" — Michelle Nijhuis, Yale E360
• The dogs that grew wool and the people who love them: Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest bred little, fluffy white dogs that provided for them both materially and spiritually — Hakai Magazine (link needed)
• Conserving a unique species of buckwheat vs. mining the land for lithium (to make EV batteries): conflicting motivations — WIRED
• Herds of life-sized elephants roam through London's parks for a global conservation project — Colossal (link needed)

• The hard sell of whale sanctuaries: as aquariums end captive-whale programs, advocates seek to build ocean-based retirement homes for the animals — but finding the right host community is a feat (ft. Keiko, the star of Free Willy) — Hakai Magazine
• Against nature writing: as a writer seeking communion with the more-than-human world, Charles Foster wonders if language can do anything other than constrain and tame the tangled wild — Emergence Magazine
• The case against the concept of biodiversity — Vox
• Pondering the meaning of invasive species: a writer tends to her land and reflects on her role as an "apex" invasive (a human), and on the nature of wildness in our changing world — Emergence Magazine
• Human influence on tropics predates Anthropocene, holds clues to current crisis: given the intensive management of natural resources by indigenous peoples for thousands of years, do we need to redefine the Anthropocene? — Mongabay
• A group of orca outcasts is now dominating an entire sea: killer whales that feast on seals and hunt in small packs are thriving while their widely beloved siblings are dying out — Katharine Gammon, The Atlantic
• Assisting evolution: how far should we go to help species adapt?: an Australian project to help threatened marsupial species avoid predatory cats is among a host of "assisted evolution" efforts based on the premise that it is no longer enough to protect species from change — humans are going to have to intervene to help them change — Elizabeth Kolbert, Yale E360
• What It's Like to Be a Bird — David Allen Sibley
• Where camels take to the sea: in Gujarat, India, a special breed of camel is not constrained by land — but cannot escape the many forces of change. What can this camel teach us about surviving in an extreme world? — Shanna Baker, Hakai Magazine
• Wild bear stealthily enters California zoo, found visiting the bear exhibit — Los Angeles Times
• Many captive cetaceans are in-between creatures, like Hvaldimir: "born to whales but raised by humans, not quite domesticated but no longer wild" — New York Times
• A long, wild read by Elizabeth Kolbert on efforts to use machine learning to understand (and talk to) whales — The New Yorker
• Tooth and Claw: "bros talking about stuff," true-crime-style wildlife stories with a touch of conservation — Outside
• In support of the non-capital N, capital P national Parks across the states — Slate
• Orcas are sinking ships in Europe, and the behavior is spreading — Live Science
• Profiles of the inspiring, impactful work of conservation photographers
• A video interview with Catherine DeNardo, who wrote a biography/apology about Lolita, a killer whale who has lived in dismal captive conditions for over fifty years — an authentic, honest attempt to acknowledge an impossible-to-correct wrongdoing
• A crazy Radiolab episode about Zoroastrians, vultures, and NSAIDs
• Adaptations occurring in the genome of cetaceans as they transitioned from land to sea — Knowable Magazine
• On the brain structure of cetaceans — including giving dolphins MRIs and pondering comparative intelligence — Hakai Magazine
• How often a blue whale's heart beats (about 38 times/minute), how we know (a cool EKG sensor I sorta saw in development!), and why it's important (conservation outcomes) — Vox
• What did the ancient whale see? Follows well from An Immense World, discussing the evolution of pigments in ancient cetacean eyes — Hakai Magazine
• I went to the beach recently, and my favorite part was watching the dogs frolic in the surf — but maybe keeping dogs off leash on the beach isn't as harmless as it seems — Hakai Magazine
• On the power of quiet places
• What we've learned about deep sea divers from themselves, turned oceanographers — Knowable Magazine
• How the Amazon's dynamic rivers drive biodiversity — Quanta Magazine
• "The state of 'nature'... can no longer be appreciated from a distance..." — against the genre of nature writing — Lit Hub
• Robin Wall Kimmerer beautifully explains why moss are the most successful beings on Earth
• On the evolution of sounds, and what it means about our relationship to everything around us — Emergence Magazine
• Not quite surprising, but still depressing, how far microplastics have infiltrated the deep sea — New York Times
• The concept of urban wilderness, including this view on protecting the "spontaneous nature in cities" — Bloomberg
• The pure logistics of research in humpback whales, and the amount of data these creatures carry — Nautilus

Related

• Beloved Beasts — Michelle Nijhuis
• The Bird Way — Jennifer Ackerman
• The Spell of the Sensuous — David Abram
• Strange Harvests — Edward Posnett
• Billionaire Wilderness — Justin Farrell
• Of Wolves and Men — Barry Lopez
• A Life on Our Planet — David Attenborough
• Undersea — Rachel Carson
• The Last Two Northern White Rhinos On Earth — Sam Anderson
• Under a White Sky — Elizabeth Kolbert
• Why Fish Don't Exist — Lulu Miller
• Coral Versus Climate — Kingdon
• Our Dogs, Ourselves — Alexandra Horowitz
• A World on the Wing — Scott Weidensaul
• Aloha California — Emily Underwood