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Tag: Conservation

Posted on August 13, 2024September 8, 2025

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 …

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Christopher J. Preston is a writer, a professor of philosophy, and a one-time commercial fisherman who is obsessed with the sight of freshly falling snow. The most inflated title he ever possessed was Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Ethics of the Anthropocene.

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