Great dispatch from Africa on the effort to prevent conflicts between humans and elephants. Anthony Ham reports for Smithsonian Magazine. smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

My latest piece for Smithsonian Magazine and it's an important one. With thanks to joe spring, Save the Elephants, The ECOEXIST Project and Elephant Crisis Fund smithsonianmag.com/science-nature…

This is incredible footage: livescience.com/animals/cats/1…

Summer issue out now! Professor Dr Megan Davis on post-referendum Australia, plus Jess Hill on changing a bad law, MargaretSimons on Taiwan’s indigenous peoples, Sean Kelly, Anthony Ham on Kakadu, Briohny Doyle, Tim Winton and more. mnth.ly/zhY0ulX

.Anthony Ham on the ongoing threats to Kakadu National Park: “The Jabiluka area, however, remains outside the protections of the park, and Rio Tinto has never formally surrendered its right to mine the site.” mnth.ly/KSq7Wsu

Wonderful news for biodiversity, ecosystem function/services, and conservation!

In 1977, Jorge Luis Borges, one of the most influential 20th c. Spanish-language writers, told William F. Buckley (whose first language was Spanish) his reasons for feeling, age 78, that English was 'far finer' than his native tongue. Right or wrong, I love his savor for language

My latest for NYT Science with thanks to Michael Roston for his usual wisdom, and to Indigenous Desert Alliance, Kanyirninpa Jukurrpa and the wonderful Nyangumarta Rangers. nytimes.com/2024/05/01/sci…

Indigenous rangers in Australia’s Western Desert got a rare close-up with the northern marsupial mole, which is tiny, light-colored and blind, and almost never comes to the surface. nyti.ms/4a2YTGR

An exciting observation - the first time ever recorded: a wild orangutan uses a plant called Akar Kuning - an anti-inflammatory & anti-bacterial plant - to treat a wound. Our closest relative deserves our high respect & far greater protection 1/2 bbc.co.uk/news/science-e…

Instead of wasting time on an overwritten whataboutism on words, language, rhetoric by a once-admired novelist read this short and sharp essay by Arundhati Roy. Grateful for her moral clarity in these times. scroll.in/article/106486…

Rafah is being decimated, there is nowhere else left to go. Israel is now bombing more than 1.7 million civilians trapped in Rafah, Gaza's last place of refuge. A massacre is happening in Rafah right now and the world is silent.

A little Palestine boy desperately searching the hospital wards for his injured mother finally finds her | the israeli genocide live-streamed

I salute my brother Macklemore using his powerful artistry to tell some painful truths! #TruthJusticeLove

When two-thirds of the people killed in Gaza are women and children, when you block humanitarian aid, you’re not just going after Hamas. You’re going after the entire Palestinian people.

LIVE: Today I offer a simple resolution: NO to antisemitism. NO to Islamophobia. NO to racism and bigotry in all its forms. YES to free speech and protest under the 1st Amendment, whether on a college campus or across our nation. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

Researchers say the nearly mile-long swim was the longest by big cats ever recorded. nyti.ms/4eiVoPP

My latest for NYT Science. With thanks as always to Michael Roston nytimes.com/2024/06/14/sci…

July issue out Monday (online today for subscribers). Featuring Jonathan Green on heads rolling at News Corp, Jane Caro on class warfare in school funding, MargaretSimons on the undermining of a China think tank, Anthony Ham on McArthur River Mine, and more mnth.ly/JuzQXKN

“It makes a mockery of anyone fighting for environmental justice in the country if they’re not paying attention to this.” Environment Centre NT’s Kirsty Howey talks to Anthony Ham about McArthur River Mine mnth.ly/CFX3xna