Biodiversity, Climate, Justice
Tracy Keeling
Climate
Biodiversity
Justice
About
Tracy Keeling
I was born at 93.6 LPI (Living Planet Index). Currently, the LPI sits at 30.9, signalling that populations of wild species have declined massively – by over 60% – in my lifetime. Climate-wise, I was born at 331.1ppm (concentrations of CO2 in the atmosphere). Now we’re hovering around 420ppm.
Journalists have an important role to play in helping people to understand how we got here – and how we get the hell out. They can uncover the villians in this Earth story, shine a light on its heroes, and explain the complexities of these interconnected emergencies. Through this, they can help to effect change.
I am an impact-focused environmental journalist determined to do exactly that. Broadly speaking, I write about the 4% (wild animals), the 62% (farmed animals), and the 99% (the rest of the living planet). Please check out the relevant sections of my website to find examples of work I’ve done on these topics.
I am a freelance journalist. My stories have appeared in Daily Maverick, The Revelator, DeSmog, Sentient Media, The Canary, and elsewhere.
Image by Lucy Calderón Pineda
“There are few journalists who are truly able to intelligently delve into the subject at hand, scouring the details to make sure that when a story is produced everything has been thoroughly examined. Tracy Keeling is that journalist. Without fail, she delivers a deeply informative and compelling read. ”
– Dr Adam Cruise, investigative journalist and author
Evidence mounts of long-tailed macaques’ dire conservation status
A debate over the conservation status of the long-tailed macaque has raged in recent years, triggered by an International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List assessment that found the species to be endangered. An IUCN committee delivered a...
End Extinction Silence
A year ago, I set out on a journey to vigorously report on the legal trade in wildlife. Why? Because this gigantic trade is a relentless driver of the world’s biodiversity crisis. Figures from the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of...
UK sportswear firm ditches kangaroo leather over sustainability concerns
A UK-based firm that aims to be “the world’s most eco-friendly football boot brand” has ditched kangaroo leather. Sokito made the decision to eliminate the material from its products amid concerns about sustainability of the trade. Some argue that populations...
Alarm over trophy hunters taking aim at Amboseli’s ‘iconic giants’
South African journalist Adam Cruise is co-author of this article. Trophy hunters reportedly killed three elephants in northern Tanzania between September 2023 and February this year. The events have caused alarm as the elephants are believed to have been members of a...
Calls for change as tonnes of coral taken from Great Barrier Reef
The marine aquarium trade is booming, with research showing 55 million invertebrates and fish are sold globally every year. Corals feature prominently in the sector, thanks to hobbyists’ preferences for mini reef replicas. Combined with their use in jewellery and...
Out-of-Control Wildlife Trade Is Shackling a Key Climate Solution
According to trade records, people plucked more than 400,000 Central Asian tortoises from the wild to sell internationally between 2012 and 2021, mainly for the pet trade. About half of the animals across that decade were imported into the United States, where the...
It will take a village to save the world’s wild travellers
Migratory species are the Clark Kents of the natural world. They collectively run circles around the globe like Kent did as Superman to ‘turn back time’ in the 1978 movie. Migrating animals don’t traverse the Earth to revive a dead loved one, as the fictional...
The UK is failing macaques
There are worrying shortcomings in the UK's oversight of long-tailed macaque imports, a species that is extensively exploited in trade to satisfy the insatiable demand from laboratories for test subjects. Long-tailed macaques are the most heavily exploited mammals on...
Opportunity knocks for wildlife trade body to step up for great apes
At less than one-year-old, Sana’s future is already partly decided. The tiny female chimpanzee is a trafficking survivor who has irreversible injuries. Due to these impairments, she can’t have babies on her own in the wild, as she will need to deliver by C-section. As...
FOIs reveal Badger cull approved in National Nature Reserves
UK authorities have permitted badger control operations to take place in England’s nature havens, according to new revelations. Freedom of Information requests involving Natural England, the Forestry Commission, and Forestry England, show that badger control...
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