By John F. Calvelli Last June, more than a ton of ivory was crushed in New York City’s Times Square. With the crush, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society), and other conservation groups ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the seventh in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] Our national emblem is the bald eagle. This majestic bird, no matter how many times we’...
By John Calvelli When Americans hear that elephants are being poached into extinction for their ivory, there is a tendency to think of it as somebody else’s problem. Those elephants are being killed thousands of miles away in Africa, ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the sixth in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] This weekend, Americans will spend the 4th of July thinking of the things that make the ...
By John F. Calvelli At the Clinton Global Initiative’s Annual Meeting today, the Wildlife Conservation Society reported a number of encouraging gains achieved over the past year in the fight to save Africa’s elephants. Those include the successful 96 ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the fifth in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] This Thanksgiving, we celebrate a great milestone for both bison and the modern conservation movement. November 28 ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the fifth in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] This Thanksgiving, we celebrate a great milestone for both bison and the modern conservation movement. November 28 ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the fourth in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] At a time when lawmakers rarely agree on much, the bison, a quintessentially American mammal, is ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the fourth in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] At a time when lawmakers rarely agree on much, the bison, a quintessentially American mammal, is ...
By John Calvelli [Note: This is the third in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison.] Native American groups joined with bison producers and conservation organizations in 2012 to initiate a campaign called ...
By John Calvelli The first in a series of blogs by Calvelli celebrating the history and conservation of the American Bison. When Kai Ryssdal announced on National Public Radio’s daily financial round-up Marketplace recently that “political gridlock is over,” ...