Author: Miss Cellania / Source: Neatorama
Colorado State University biologist Joel Berger’s new book Extreme Conservation tells about the many projects he’s worked on to study the habits and habitats of wildlife all over the world. Learning how to save the world’s species often involves trauma to individual animals with the aim of saving the species as a whole.
This bothered Berger so much that he goes to extremes to limit the damage done in research. Instead of equipping musk oxen in the Arctic with radio collars, he will locate a herd by plane, and then spend weeks tracking them with an expedition equipped with snow machines, and finally approaching them by foot.Zhang: One thing you study is how musk oxen react to bears. Obviously you can’t let loose a wild bear yourself, so you have decided to be the bear.
Berger: [laughs] So the quick elevator-pitch context: With less ice, we’re finding more…
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