Thursday, June 9, 2016

Ecologist Cristina Eisenberg is back with us for a 2nd day of insightful pondering about how to best protect protect and enhance biodiversity in a rapidly changing environment of climate, population, economic and social change..........Cristina always makes you think, puts the problem squarely between your eyes and then puts forth some optimistic thoughts on how Coyotes, Wolves, Cougars and the rest of creation can be walking alongside of us for the millennium ahead.............As she puts it--------"Scientists estimate that, due to climate change and other factors, 35 percent of the species currently on Earth are expected to become extinct by the year 2050, and 50 percent by the year 2200".........."We need to do something."........................ "As Einstein put it, “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking that created them"................ "We would do well to heed his wise words as we sail our raft of environmental laws into the brave new world we’ve created"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/cristina-eisenberg/shifting-baselines-and-en_b_10119592.html

Shifting Baselines and Endangered Species Recovery

 05/26/2016 06:01 pm ET | Updated May 26, 2016
story and photos by Cristina Eisenberg

Bald Eagle
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Polar Bear
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Mexican Wolf

Learn more about carnivore conservation by reading The Carnivore Way: Coexisting with and Conserving North America’s Predators, and The Wolf’s Tooth: Keystone Predators, Trophic Cascades, and Biodiversity by Dr. Cristina Eisenberg. Learn more about large carnivore ecology by joining Cristina afield on herEarthwatch research expedition, Tracking Fire and Wolves through the Canadian Rockies.

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