https://cowlpane.com/tags/animals/ Recent content in Animals on Cowlpane Hugo en-us Fri, 08 May 2026 19:09:31 +0000 https://cowlpane.com/politics/a-foreign-correspondent-of-animal-kingdoms/ Fri, 08 May 2026 19:09:31 +0000 https://cowlpane.com/politics/a-foreign-correspondent-of-animal-kingdoms/ <p><em>Originally published by <a href="https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/08/george-schaller-biography-review-modern-conservation-environment-extinction/">Foreign Policy</a></em></p> <hr> <h2 id="how-a-headstrong-field-biologist-helped-birth-the-worldwide-conservation-movement">How a headstrong field biologist helped birth the worldwide conservation movement.</h2> <ul> <li>Get audio access with any FP subscription.Subscribe NowALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER?LOGIN</li> </ul> <p>Get audio access with any FP subscription.</p> <p>ALREADY AN FP SUBSCRIBER?LOGIN</p> <p>It’s not just humans that aresufferingfrom the Trump administration’s destruction of the U.S. Agency for International Development. For nearly 40 years, USAID was one of the top global funders ofinternational conservation. In December 2024, shortly before its demise, then-USAID director Samantha Power launched the agency’s sweeping newbiodiversity policy, which emphasized locally led development and climate resilience as guiding principles for a$350 millionannual conservation portfolio.</p>