Category: Human Wildlife Interaction
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Smart stick, shaky science: yet another snakebite gimmick India did not need
Every few years, we seem to produce the same kind of snakebite “solution” in a new costume. A gadget, a stick, a device, a clever little contraption unveiled with the kind of optimism usually reserved for things that have actually been tested. The story is always familiar: a dangerous real-world problem, a dramatic claim, a…
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Wildlife Roadkills
You can learn a lot about a landscape by what you flatten on the road. Roadkill is one of those issues everyone agrees is “very sad,” right before they accelerate past the next warning sign at 90 km/h. It’s also vastly underreported, underestimated, and treated as if it were some unavoidable act of nature rather…
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Zookeepers: The People Who Actually Run the Zoo
Most visitors think zoos are run by directors, veterinarians, or occasionally by whatever animal happens to be the most visible that day. In reality, the zoo runs on a far less glamorous unit of energy: zookeepers. They arrive before the gates open, leave after the crowds thin out, and spend most of their working hours…
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Why Zoos Matter: Conservation Beyond Idealism
Zoos tend to trigger strong opinions. People either love them, hate them, or love to hate them—often without having set foot inside a modern one in years. The irony is that while debates rage online about whether zoos should exist, millions of animals continue to exist because they do. Quietly. Without hashtags. Modern zoos and…
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