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Carl Safina, PhD, is an American author, ecologist, and MacArthur Fellow. He writes about the relationship between human beings and the natural world. He founded the nonprofit Safina Center, whose mission is to “advance the case for Life on Earth by fusing scientific understanding, emotional connection, and a moral call to action.”

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The Real Case for Saving Species: We Don’t Need Them, But They Need Us

Conservationists argue that humans need to save species in order to save ourselves. The truth is we could survive without wild species—but they can’t survive without us, and the moral argument for protecting them and the beauty they bring to the world is overwhelming.

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This Rescue Moose Was Also 2020

Let’s celebrate the strange and marvelous creatures of Earth while we still can.

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Melville’s Whale Was a Warning We Failed to Heed

Herman Melville’s haunting inquiry—“whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc”—returns to me again while every whale in every ocean returns to share our air in seas we’re warming and thickening with plastic.

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Songs of the Humpback Whales

This essay is adapted from Carl Safina’s book, Becoming Wild: How Animal Cultures Raise Families, Create Beauty, and Achieve Peace (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 2020).

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We Don’t Need More Life-Crushing Steel and Concrete

The long-term needs of ecosystems should come before our knee-jerk expectations about infrastructure.

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This Brutal Creature Is Wiping Out Everything Besides Itself

From the standpoint of almost every other living thing, humans, with a strategy of economic growth at all costs, have become a kind of hybrid deadly fungus, predatory lender and concentration camp management agency.

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Psychic Numbing: Keeping Hope Alive in a World of Extinctions

The litany of lost species can be overwhelming, leading to what has been called “psychic numbing.” But as the recovery of species from bald eagles to humpback whales shows, our actions do matter in saving species and the aliveness and beauty they bring to the world.

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Protecting Earth: If ‘Nature Needs Half,’ What Do People Need?

The campaign to preserve half the Earth’s surface is being criticized for failing to take account of global inequality and human needs. But such protection is essential not just for nature, but also for creating a world that can improve the lives of the poor and disadvantaged.

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A Dead Whale Containing 90 Pounds of Plastic Is a Message in a Bottle

All these great ocean creatures are like bottles washing ashore, each bearing a message for all of us: We are choking on your trash.

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In Defense of Biodiversity: Why Protecting Species from Extinction Matters

A number of biologists have recently made the argument that extinction is part of evolution and that saving species need not be a conservation priority. But this revisionist thinking shows a lack of understanding of evolution and an ignorance of the natural world.

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