In the middle of December 2014, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell reversed a 2012 decision of the US Fish and Wildlife Service that declared wolves were fully recovered in the midwestern Great Lakes region. Because of that decision management of … Continue reading
Several months ago my dad died. He was my second dad. My family never followed hard distinctions between biological or social, much less real or step parents. My two sets of parents were always simply my American or Canadian dad … Continue reading
Two years ago today I gave a keynote on the ethical dimensions of managing outdoor cats. It was to The Outdoor Cat, the first international conference to take up the conservation and welfare considerations of companion, community and feral cats. … Continue reading
A couple of days ago I gave the second presentation in The Annenberg Foundation seminar, “Urban Ecology and Our Cities Future”. I spoke on ethics and urban ecology, with a particular focus on our relationships and responsibilities to urban domestic … Continue reading
Reposted from the blog of the Center for Urban Resilience. In late September 2014, the California city of Seal Beach ignited a controversy by adopting a proposal to trap and kill coyotes. To date several coyotes have been killed with … Continue reading
Last week my colleague Erik Strauss gave a talk on urban ecology as as part of a seminar series, “The Urban Ecosystem of Los Angeles: A Discussion of Our Cities Future”. Eric is Presidential Professor of Biology at Loyola Marymount … Continue reading