mark carwardine - zoologist : writer : wildlife photographer : broadcaster

markcarwardinearticles

BBC Wildlife magazine 'Wild Thoughts' (from January 2006 to present)

January 2006 Climate change and wildlife- watching	February 2006 Hot air – the climate-change debate	March 2006 The fish-stock crisis	April 2006 Our perception of whales and whaling	May 2006 British Columbia's Great Bear Rainforest: saved?	June 2006 Our responsibilty for unnatural disasters	July 2006 Politicians and conservation
August 2006 Most endangered species will vanish before we know they exist	September 2006 The trouble with the EU	Autumn 2006 Lack of concern for the lion's plight	October 2006 The debate on splitting species	November 2006 The death of Steve Irwin	December 2006 Alternative Nobel Prize ideas	January 2007 Conservation in the UK
February 2007 ITV's TV conservation programme: Extinct	March 2007 Carbon footprint debate	April 2007 Poor marine conservation in UK	May 2007 The reintroduction of wolves to Britain	June 2007 Bounty hunting is still rife worldwide	July 2007 Tiger project in Cambodia	Summer 2007 The Environment Police hit the UK's streets
August 2007 Creationists in the USA	September 2007 Natural-history programme making	October 2007 The sad demise of the Yangtze river dolphin	November 2007 Why the West sets such a poor conservation example	December 2007 How the lion's decline seems to be passing the world by	January 2008 The exploitation of UK Green Belts	February 2008 The American public's environmental viewpoint
March 2008 Vaquita – the porpoise heading to extinction	April 2008 How our senses are dulled to conservation stories	May 2008 Politics and our throwaway society	June 2008 The shocking story of a dog left to die in the name of art	July 2008 Guerrilla Gardeners - transforming grey urban wasteland	Summer 2008 UK's abuse of green issues to fill Treasury coffers	August 2008 The pros and cons of being a wildlife photographer (Mark took a break for a few months to film for the BBC)
July 2009 Mark's take on the BBC2 conservation series, Last Chance to See	Summer 2009 Politicians and their ill-informed take on badgers and TB in the UK	August 2009 Why shark nets do more harm than good	September 2009 The impact of eco-tourism on wildlife hotspots	October 2009 The complexities of rhino conservation	November 2009 When scientists fail to click with conservationists	December 2009 Iceland should not be allowed to join the EU unless it stops whaling
January 2010 The importance of scientific research for conservation action	February 2010 How subtle and unpredictable many of the impacts of climate change are likely to be	March 2010 Some species' reintroductions appear to be little more than high-profile publicity stunts	April 2010 The preposterous plan to legalise whaling for the first time in 25 years	May 2010 The appalling annual seal cull that still continues with Canada's blessing	July 2010 Why the Indian government must not phase out tourism in tiger reserves	August 2010 How anti-poaching patrols are the unsung heroes on the conservation frontline
September 2010 The Tanzanian Government's flawed plan to build a commercial highway through the northern end of the Serengeti	Autumn 2010 The arrogance of oil companies operating in the developing world	October 2010 Mark has just returned from filming in Lousiana about the Gulf oil spill and reports how BP is covering up the true extent of the damage done	November 2010 The issues surrounding the use of mammoth tusks in lieu of elephant ivory	December 2010 Environment ministers from 193 countries discuss in Nagoya, Japan, the world’s nature crisis and make, as usual, no progress whatsoever	January 2011 The thylacine - “the world’s most common extinct animal” - is a classic case of only appreciating something after it has gone	February 2011 Whaling and how we need more whale devotees in Japan, Norway and Iceland to change attitudes from within those countries
March 2011 Sad fact - there are so few survivors of a range of endangered species that researchers know them by name	April 2011 The plight of a precious population of spiny seahorses in Studland Bay, Dorset	May 2011 Palm oil plantations could be the biggest threat to the greatest number of species on the planet	June 2011 What does a webcam of nesting bald eagles with 11 million viewers actually achieve?	July 2011 Good news - there has recently been an unprecedented outcry against bear-bile farming	August 2011 Why we need to be sympathetic in our approach to the conservation of potentially dangerous animals	September 2011 How the demand for whale meat in Iceland is generated by tourists
Autumn 2011 The crazy drama surrounding an Arctic scientist, Kafkaesque government agencies, unscrupulous oil giants, climate-change sceptics and polar bears	October 2011 The pointless (and cruel) Chinese fad for keyrings of mini plastic sacs of water containing live newts, turtle hatchlings or fish	November 2011 How, under President Obama, the US is in the middle of one of the worst assaults on the environment in recent history