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Posted on June 1, 2018July 22, 2019

Their Deeply Familiar Shape: on lions and us

What does our relationship with lions need to become, if this ancient conflict is to come to dusk in such a way that an early morning air that’s charged with the roaring of the dawn chorus still greets the sunrise?

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Posted on July 27, 2016July 22, 2019

On the African Lion & Environmental Research Trust

And there she still is; and so it hasn’t worked.

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Posted on June 4, 2016July 22, 2019

The Human Aspect: conservation and development

Conserving a bird species, then, by dedicating the vast majority of your time and effort to the human communities that share space with it.

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Posted on June 4, 2016July 22, 2019

African Sons: lions and us

It is a singular relationship, that which exists between humans and lions.

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Posted on April 6, 2016July 22, 2019

Renouncing the Call of the Wild: the self-domestication of wolves

That the first tentative steps toward deep, eventual friendship, informed by a self-interest in easy food as those steps may have been, were taken, willingly, by wolves.

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Posted on February 19, 2016September 2, 2018

Coexistence

I have, for so long now, found so little wild, so few pockets without their shadow, and so few of the wilder, natural prey. They are not within my grasp.

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Posted on February 14, 2016June 29, 2017

Go Tell The Gods

Trying, some desperately, some half-heartedly, to weave themselves back into the web that they severed themselves, at once with vicious intent and complete indifference, from.

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Posted on July 29, 2015July 22, 2019

On Cecil the lion, and whether trophy hunting really does help conserve the species

Trophy hunting has been around an awful long time, and for that entire time lions have been the most prized trophy of all. If it hunting lions is conservation, then it is the longest running conservation project that I know of, and, given the current state of lion populations, a somewhat unsuccessful one at that.

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