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Time to Confront the Aquarium Trade’s ‘Gray Areas’

by Tracy K | Feb 9, 2025 | The 4%, The 62%

“We’ve got to shrink the flavors of fishes available to hobbyists.” This is not what I expected to hear from ornamental fish trade veteran Tim Haywood when we connected to discuss the aquarium industry. It’s rare to come across businessfolk calling for a constriction...

Saving Living Jewels: One Woman’s Mission to Shine a Light on the Ornamental Fish Trade

by Tracy K | Dec 7, 2024 | The 4%, The 99%

Nothing fascinates Monica Biondo more than the animals often referred to as the ocean’s “living jewels” — the vividly colored little fishes who dance around in its waters. Biondo, a Swiss marine biologist, became enamored with ocean life as a child after spending many...

Science takes a back seat in the war on wolves

by Tracy K | Sep 2, 2024 | The 4%, The 62%

Switzerland fired the official starting gun on a five-month-long wolf cull on 1 September. Several cantons have applied to kill young wolves and their elders, as well as to wipe out numerous whole packs. If approved by the federal authorities, the cantons...

Ports in the deep-sea mining storm

by Tracy K | Aug 11, 2024 | The 4%, The 99%

The main thing we know about the deep sea is that we don’t know enough about the deep sea. Just last year, researchers reported that they found over 5,000 species on the seabed in a part of the Pacific. Most of the species were new to science, which...

Evidence mounts of long-tailed macaques’ dire conservation status

by Tracy K | Aug 11, 2024 | The 4%

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...

Why ‘tiny bat in coffin’ ornaments are no trivial matter

by Tracy K | Jul 28, 2024 | The 4%

It sucks being a bat in the Anthropocene, or as some would have it, the Capitalocene. Climate crisis-fuelled extreme heat is killing bats in droves. The wind power infrastructure being built to limit global warming is causing bat...