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REPORT: The Trump Administration’s War in Iran Is Harming Fishermen in Hawaii and Across the Country
The ocean is not exempt from the Trump administration’s reverse Midas touch. While the administration’s fisheries policies undermine protections for endangered species and iconic habitats, the war in Iran drives up the price of diesel, leaving fishermen teetering on the edge of…
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REPORT: Trump rolling back 87% of the nation’s highly protected ocean waters
In his second term, President Trump has taken action to remove protections from marine areas stretching across more than 1 million square miles, threatening iconic seascapes with industrial-scale fishing fleets. With ocean health increasingly under threat from climate change and…
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What sharks would Odysseus have encountered during his journey?
A face. A fleet. A war. A man. And some sharks! Here’s a look at what sharks are found in Greek waters, and how things have changed over the centuries. People have been talking about sharks in the Mediterranean for a very long time- some of the first written descriptions of…
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Sabotaging conservation in the US: this time it’s the next generation of conservation scientists
Let’s be honest. Most of us working in conservation science got into it because we wanted to save something. We envisioned our research ultimately protecting a fragile ecosystem or an endangered species from the numerous threats thrown at them by humans. Looking at the current…
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A continued assault on the Endangered Species Act – this time it’s the “Jobs Act”
There are three ways to destroy an environmental law. You can repeal it outright (. You can withhold the funds needed to enforce it. Or (and this is the preferred method of the Trump Administration and the Republican Party) you can keep the law on the books but completely…
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When is a take not a take? Yet another attack on Endangered Species by the Trump Administration
“Felling a tree is not a take of the bats roosting in it unless the tree is felled for the purpose of killing or capturing them.” This is the example used by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director Brian Nesvik in a September 14, 2026 memo directing Service personnel to adopt a…
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The Trump Administration’s latest attack on endangered species
NOAA’s new seafood roadmap increases the threat to endangered whales There has long been a tension between commercial fisheries and marine conservation. But a new directive out of NOAA Fisheries indicates that the scales aren’t just tipping; they are being actively flipped over…
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5 things I learned helping to reassess the global conservation status of every species of tuna and billfish
One of my first part-time positions as an ocean conservation policy consultant was working for the IUCN Species Survival Commission’s Tuna and Billfish Specialist Group. Our task was to update the IUCN Red List conservation assessments for all the different species of tuna and…
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Why the new Trump order to shoot wolves is both illegal and a dreadful precedent for endangered species
On September 4, Donald Trump issued an executive order targeting the Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections of gray wolves and Mexican gray wolves. In the Oval Office he stated to an Arizona rancher that “you can shoot them as of today.” Video of this statement has now gone…
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Key takeaways from my Convention on Migratory Species report on fish aggregating devices in the Mediterranean Sea
The United Nations Environment Programme hired me to produce a Convengtion on Migratory Species report on the environmental impacts associated with fish aggregating devices and how to mitigate those impacts. Here are some key takeaways. FADs very widely in design, and different…