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Christina Selby

Christina Selby is a freelance writer and photographer currently splitting her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Brazil. In her quest to document the world’s biodiversity hotspots, she has kayaked the Sea of Cortez, traversed Central America by bus, followed honey bees through the Himalayas, staked out wolves in the American Southwest, and pursued lost species in the Amazon. Her work has appeared in such outlets as High Country News, Ensia, and Mongabay. Find more of her work at christinamselby.com.

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Christina Selby's Latest Articles

Windows into the Earth

The freshwater springs of the American Southwest are among the most endangered ecosystems on Earth. Fortunately, they're also among the most resilient.

The Pinyon Paradox

Steering pinyon jays from decline requires better knowing and tending one of the American West’s most unappreciated woodlands.

Sign designating the National Wild and Scenic section of the Rio Chama.
A River’s Right to Flow

Indigenous communities and conservationists around the world are challenging the view of water as a human commodity, and fighting to keep this precious resource in the ecosystems it sustains. Can the same approach work in the arid Southwest?

Mexican wolf "M1296" walks off a sedative after being processed and released back into the field during a January 2016 annual Mexican wolf count based out of Alpine, Arizona. After receiving vaccinations and a new GPS collar, M1296 was reacquainted with his mate not far from where he was initially captured. Photograph by Christina Selby
Into the Wild

North America’s rarest wolf subspecies is finally reclaiming its native territory in the Southwest, thanks in part to a fostering program that places captive-born pups into wild dens.

Photograph by Christina Selby
Better Beef

Can the cattle industry be remade to save the Amazon rainforest?

Palm trees line the banks of a black-water river outside of Eirunepé.
In Search of the Lost

On a quest to find a missing primate, a team of scientists discovers that sometimes maps tell only the smallest part of the story.