Tag: conservation
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Cockroaches & Comics – An Interview with Maddy Ruth
Earlier this year, I received an email inquiring about my story on Simandoa conserfariam, the extinct in the wild roach. The sender was Maddy Ruth, a multimedia artist working on a comic book. We exchanged a few emails about my sources and whether or not the cave S. conserfariam was found in still existed, and…
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Scorpions, Shrews, Nudibranchs, Oh My! – An Interview with Prakrit Jain
“Get out in the field if you can, and if not, try to contact others who have to learn from their observations.”
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Report from Town Hall on CDFW Scientific Collecting Permits
Biodiversity scientists from across California gathered to field suggestions for CDFW’s Scientific Collecting Permit application process.
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In Search of Isopods – An Interview with Oonagh Degenhardt (aniedes)
“The most rewarding part for me has to be finding a species exactly where I expected it to be…”
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The ongoing mystery of the Extinct in the Wild Roach
Easy to care for, prolific, and pleasingly colored, the Extinct in the Wild Roach’s popularity with hobbyists belies a darker fate in the wild. But is it actually gone?
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Velvet Worms in Need of Some Help…
…When he first discovered the species in his yard in 1990, he found a colony of over 2,000 specimens living under a brick pile!
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Migidae sp. “Madagascar” and Conserving These Beautiful Spiders
…Dealing with something so old has made me completely change how I view keeping, and by extension conserving, trapdoor spiders.
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Conservation: A Great Paradox
And herein lies conservation’s great paradox: to protect the environment from human depredation, yet also protect humans from abject poverty.
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