Beyond Species Counts: Nonhuman Values, Conservation and Rewilding

Like many others I am saddened to hear Dave Foreman passed away on 19 September 2022. Dave is famous for his environmental advocacy, uncompromising defense of wildness, and coining of the term ‘rewilding.’ Dave was born in 1946 in the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico, part of the arid American…

by Mara-Daria Cojocaru, PhD Mara-Daria Cojocaru is PAN Works’ Writer in Virtual Residence, one of our Fellows skilled in ethics and philosophy, and Privatdozentin at the Munich School of Philosophy. Here she shares her insights into multispecies poetry. Mara kindly translated this into English (original in German). …

By: Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, PhD ( PAN Works, Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute), Liv Baker, PhD ( PAN Works & Animal Behaviour and Conservation, Hunter College, CUNY), Kristin L. Stewart, JD, PhD ( PAN Works& Anthrozoology, Canisius College), and William S. …

By: Francisco J. Santiago-Ávila, PhD ( PAN Works, Project Coyote and The Rewilding Institute), Liv Baker, PhD ( PAN Works & Animal Behaviour and Conservation, Hunter College, CUNY), Kristin L. Stewart, JD, PhD ( PAN Works & Anthrozoology, Canisius College), and William S. …

In February of 2019, Lysanne Snijders (Behavioral Ecology, Wageningen University) and Tanja Straka (Human Dimensions, Technische Universität Berlin) had a brilliant idea. They created an editorial column on Medium to explore the intersections of ethics and human-wildlife interaction. Their’s was an open and welcoming approach as Lysanne and Tanja sought…

Protecting a taxon with a bad reputation The world has changed tremendously in the last few months and bats are in the spotlights. It is still difficult to assess how people’s views on bats will change on the long-term, but a decrease in appreciation and increase in persecution is currently clearly notable. Bat conservationists around the world…

Sitting with grief in a world of wounds In conservation, often a choice has to be made for the lesser of two evils. How can conservationists cope with such situations of seemingly inevitable loss? Here, we share a personal contribution from Dr Chelsea Batavia, in which she takes us along in the background story of her recent publication…

The role of individual researchers For this exploration, we are experimenting with a different format: a personal contribution about a relevant and (somewhat) controversial topic in conservation. This exploration is a personal account of the role that climate change plays in the daily life of researcher Dr Yann Gager. Yann explains to us what individual…