Photo Credit: Hannah Mackins A remarkable life is over. Blean Woods’ matriarch, the first Bison bonasus brought to the UK to live semi-wild outside of a zoo, died in November aged twenty-one. Her tenure served its purpose well. The matriarch provided three years of sound leadership and stability for the animals that followed. The bison …
Where Compassion and Conservation Meet
It has been a year since a humpback whale calf named Tango was struck and killed by a boat near Juneau. I stopped by a small island to look at the beached carcass three weeks ago. The skin had turned orange-brown, sagging beneath a rib cage gradually collapsing onto the beach. Tango's death troubled Heidi …
Christopher J. Preston 