Living in the Sprawl
As housing developments devour open space in the western United States, can local governments stave off habitat loss?
Ben Goldfarb's Latest Articles
Entangled
Laid end to end, the world’s fences would reach the sun. What are they doing to wildlife?
City of Glass
Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.
No Country for Old Ocelots
Can wildlife crossings save America’s most endangered feline?
Atonement in the Kitchen
One way to make sense of the senseless slaughter of roadkill? Salvage it for food.
Free-Flowing, For Now
Hundreds of new dams are currently planned for Central American rivers, posing a threat to Indigenous peoples and wildlife alike. Preserving the integrity of these corridors between the mountains and the sea will help them both.
They Will Build It
In western Washington, the Tulalip Tribes bet big on beavers.
In Search of Suckers
An endangered fish makes a comeback in the Grand Canyon’s depths—but will the razorback sucker stick around?
The Birds and the Bombs
The fate of the Southeast's longleaf pine forests, and the endangered woodpeckers that depend on them, may rest in the hands of the U.S. military.