predators
PRIDE: Coexisting with Lions
By Meghan Bartels / On December 16th, 2014
We're pleased to be able to share Roshan Patel's award-winning documentary about coexisting with endangered Asiatic lions in India. The lion once roamed from northern Morocco to central India, but by the early twentieth century, fewer than 50 survived, tucked in the province of Gujarat. Since then, Patel shows, locals have come together to protect the lion, embracing its impact on the surrounding ecosystem and developing a respect that allows humans and top predators to coexist peacefully.
Creating Resilience: Trophic Cascades and Climate Change
By Cristina Eisenberg / On August 23rd, 2011
Ecologist Robert Paine summed up the effects of keystone predator removal by saying, “You can change the nature of the world pretty simply. All you need to do is remove one species.”
Why the Earth is Green: Trophic Cascades on Land and Water
By Cristina Eisenberg / On August 16th, 2011
We have been discussing the powerful and essential ecological link between apex predators, their prey, and the foods prey eat. Based on the revolutionary ideas of Hairston, Smith, and Slobodkin, who in 1960 ingeniously proposed that the world is green because predators limit their plant-eating prey, trophic cascades science has since then explored the consequences of predator removal from ecosystems worldwide.