Alex Wild
Curator of Entomology at the University of Texas at Austin. Photographer.
https://www.alexanderwild.com
https://www.alexanderwild.com
When whimsical wildlife photography isn't what it seemswww.pbs.org This photo looks cute, but it reveals the cloudy intersection of wildlife photography, animal welfare issues and photojournalism integrity.
Loss of India’s vultures may have led to deaths of half a million peoplewww.science.org Find could offer lessons for conserving key species in other places
Insecticide treatment of invasive ant colonies leads to secondary ant invasions and promotes the spread of invasive ants - Biological Invasionslink.springer.com Invasive ants are among the world’s most damaging invaders and are considered a significant threat to urban, natural, and agricultural habitats worldwide. Populations of invasive ants are notoriously ...
Texas’ Plantation Prisons: Inside a 200-Year History of Forced Labor Shrouded in Secrecywww.texasobserver.org Punishments, injuries, and deaths—including from heat—on TDCJ farms are more hidden than they were in the years following convict leasing.
This butterfly went extinct. That’s not the end of the story.wapo.st The Xerces blue butterfly vanished from San Francisco in the 1940s. Scientists just released dozens of butterflies from a related species to take its place.