Bear tracks ©Frank Fichtmueller Wolves, Grizzlies, and Black Bears still roam our landscapes, yet beneath the surface, fractures appear: knowledge slips away, social bonds unravel, and cultures vanish. This is how it is. Change unfolds quietly, unnoticed until the...
Recent Essays
“When it comes to wolves, it’s not about numbers. It’s about family. A wolf is a wolf when it’s part of an intact, unexploited family group capable of astonishingly beautiful and complex cooperative behaviors and unique traditions.” Gordon Haber
“If conservation only preserves wildlife numbers and bodies without tending to wildlife minds and societies, then it will fail.” Dr. Gay Bradshaw
A peaceful landscape transforms into a harbinger of dread as helicopters darken the skies. Beneath them, a pack of wolves — proud and majestic rulers of the night — scatter in panic to the deafening sound of gunfire echoing through the forest. To no avail. The rain of bullets lacerates the flesh and shatters the bones. It ruptures the insides. Bloodbath never ceases; all legal, all approved and paid with taxpayers’ money.
Disregarding the individual is not only antithetical to appreciating sentience but also detrimental to enhancing conservation efforts. An ethical failure goes hand in hand with an ecological one.
Hunting organizations distorted opposition to trophy hunting, painting it as emotionally motivated and scientifically invalid, but this opposition is firmly founded in science. It is both ethically and morally wrong to inflict suffering on sentient beings and endanger grizzly populations for frivolous entertainment
Livingston sees humans as a species that has gone astray from the natural order. He argues that our reliance on prostheses, such as technology and ideology, has led to our disconnection from the natural world. The only way to protect nature is to see it as an extension of ourselves.