Rachel Nuwer

11.17.2020

Rachel Nuwer

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Rachel Nuwer is a freelance journalist who regularly contributes to The New York Times, National Geographic, Scientific American, and more. She is the author of the award-winning book, Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (2018), and I Feel Love: MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World (2023). She lives in Brooklyn, NY.

A group of male African lions rests in the Masai-Mara Game Reserve, Kenya, as storm clouds build overhead. Photograph by Denis-Huot

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African elephant bulls display displacement behavior during fighting to determine dominance—Addo Elephant National Park, Eastern Cape, South Africa.

Africa’s Pandemic-fueled Conservation Crisis 11.17.2020 Article - The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has exposed long-standing weaknesses in how we protect African wilderness and species. But it has also given us an opportunity to vastly improve our approach to these urgent challenges.

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