Demand Clarity

Part one included the Torrey Canyon disaster, harmony with nature and protections for mako sharks, with hints that they are all connected by something specific, something important. Something to do with rights and liability… You…

Everyone knows what the third wish is for. A magical apparition appears from a bottle and grants you three wishes. An exciting opportunity, but daunting at the same time. The thrill of having wishes fulfilled…

Do you think of yourself as an ecological person? Whatever the answer, it is becoming an increasingly important question. If your answer is “no”, I’m going to politely suggest that you don’t have a choice.…

Pew Environment, the environmentally focused wing of Pew Charitable Trusts, is a leading proponent and participant in the process towards the new forthcoming UN Treaty for the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity Beyond…

Recently, the Columbia University Journalism faculty hosted a one day conference focusing on the problems of and potential solutions for reporting on ecological issues. In it, author and commentator Naomi Klein said that the reason…

There’s an abiding truth about conservation–no matter how much we may want it to be about the living world beyond humankind, inevitably it gets down to the things that people do and don’t do. Staggering…

If you’re a fan of clarity of vision and decisive action, the government report published on Wednesday entitled West Coast Fisheries: Sharing the Risks and Benefits is something of a disappointment. Make no mistake–there are…

Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) comes in for a boatload of criticism. Its job is to conduct science to predict the potential impacts of possible management strategies in Canadian waters, and then, in…

For a man who begins a conversation by saying pessimistic things, Professor Daniel Pauly is remarkably good company. Not all of the interviews we do for Sealives are prearranged, many are serendipitous. An arrangement is…