Former U.S. Fish & Wildlife endangered species branch chief with more than three decades of experience in wildlife conservation and ecological policy.
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Lyle Lewis
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Markets created the problem.
Markets can solve the problem.
What could possibly go wrong?
Find out in the morning.
Imagine a world where environmental destruction isn’t a problem.
It’s a business opportunity.
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Across Latin America, #Mennonite colonies are constant agents of deforestation yet they're seldom engaged by policymakers or NGOs that seek to reduce forest loss 🌳
So I published this new @mongabay.com analysis by an Amazon conservation policy expert who urges dialogue for forest conservation:
The rancher’s biggest secret was that most of the cattle were imaginary.
Ecologically speaking, that may have been the best thing about the operation.
The success of voluntary conservation is usually measured by the people who volunteer.
The outcome is determined by everyone else.
Every species persists in whatever way it can for as long as it can. But persistence is not recovery, and adaptation is not protection. When habitat disappears, extinction is often just running on delay.
Heavy trucks are tire-wear machines. Studies in some countries find trucks and buses generate more than half of all road-transport tire wear despite being a minority of vehicles. One of the largest sources of microplastics isn’t packaging. It’s transportation.
Modern water policy often follows the same sequence:
abundance, overshoot, rationing, triage.
Livestock grazing has been one of the dominant land uses across the American West for more than 175 years. The idea that adding more cattle will solve our wildfire problem requires explaining why all those cattle didn’t solve it already.
Lyle Lewis
Lyle Lewis
More than a decade of voluntary farm conservation programs hasn’t gotten the state far enough on water quality, the Lobe Rangers say.
