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Congratulations to Carl Safina, 2018 Indianapolis Prize Finalist!
Carl Safina with scarlet macaw chick in Peru. Carl Safina is one of six conservation heroes in the running for the quarter million-dollar Indianapolis Prize INDIANAPOLIS – Officials from the...
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To native birds’ benefit, conservationists declare South Georgia clear of...
South Georgia. Photo: Carl Safina Celebrated sea captain James Cook implanted a British flag down into the rocky, icy ground on the shore of South Georgia in 1775. When he did so, he claimed ownership...
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Mirror, mirror
Photo: A mother chimpanzee cradles her child in a day-bed she’s just made, in Budongo Forest, Uganda. ©Carl Safina Last month, a team of six Japanese and one German scientist released a paper in the...
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New article in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science
Read my latest article “Where Are Zoos Going—or Are They Gone?“–just published in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science. The post New article in the Journal of Applied Animal Welfare Science...
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An Island Crucial For Sea Turtles Has Washed Away
(adapted from the book Eye of the Albatross) Green sea turtle. Photo: Carl Safina East Island has just about disappeared. Hurricane Walaka has washed it away. This happened just a few days ago. You...
View ArticleA dead whale containing 90 pounds of plastic is a message in a bottle, Carl...
Last month, a dead Cuvier’s beaked whale washed up onshore in the Philippines with almost 90 pounds of plastic in its stomach. As I write in my latest piece for CNN, “All these great ocean creatures...
View Article‘The wrong mine for the wrong place’ op-ed runs in The New York Times
This May, I joined Safina Center Fellow Paul Greenberg, and writers Mark Kurlansky and John Waldman to craft an opinion piece outlining the problem with Pebble Mine, “Trump’s poison pill for Alaska...
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I write about the UN’s alarming extinction report in CNN
On May 6, 2019, the U.N. released its latest report on Earth’s extinction crisis. As I write in my CNN article, their conclusion is dire and outlook bleak for all life–including humans. But we should...
View ArticleI write about the Trump Administration’s dangerous cuts to the Endangered...
I respond to the Trump Administration’s dangerous cuts to the U.S. Endangered Species Act in The New York Times. Read my op-ed here. The post I write about the Trump Administration’s dangerous cuts to...
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On Jonathan Franzen’s latest climate change piece in the New Yorker (and its...
Polar bear, Svalbard, Norway. Photo: Carl Safina On September 8, the New Yorker published an article by Jonathan Franzen titled, “What if we stopped pretending?” By September 11, various instant...
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