MEDIA

RECENT, SELECTED MEDIA, COVERAGE

Kala Patthar hike
Trek to base camp

2023

A Call for a National Petroglyph – https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2023/05/30/joel-berger-what-should-our/

High Elevation – Mountain Goats https://www.miragenews.com/mountain-goats-use-snow-to-evade-insects-1118709/

Snow and Climate Challenges https://www.earth.com/news/snow-offers-mountain-goats-relief-from-biting-insects/

Warming Temperatures and Insects For Glacier’s iconic goats, snow proves solace from bugs | Hungry Horse News

2022

NPR | High up in the mountains, goats and sheep faced off over salt. Guess who won – https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2022/10/17/1129521295/goats-slam-sheep-over-salt-lick-maybe-they-really-are-the-goat 

TREKKING TO EVEREST | Inaugural Everest Address on Climate & Wildlife – https://warnercnr.source.colostate.edu/professor-joel-berger-travels-to-everest-base-camp-for-worlds-highest-climate-conference/

IN A WARMING WOLRD, WHO WINS? – The Washington Post: In a warming world, who wins: Goats or sheep?

2021

NATURE.COM | Who wants to be a polar bear? – https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02429-2

Good News from Navajo Nationhttps://newsroom.wcs.org/News-Releases/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/15651/Good-News-From-the-Navajo-Nation–Scientists-Succeed-in-Tagging-Nearly-100-of-their-Most-Iconic-of-Wild-Animals-the-Tsetah-dibe.aspx 

Scientists Working With from Navajo Nation –   https://phys.org/news/2021-01-scientists-navajo-nation-tag-bighorn.html  

2020

In these times https://inthesetimes.com/article/conservation-grasslands-animals-prairie-plowing-habitat-loss-bison-badgers

Who are the real pestshttps://cosmosmagazine.com/nature/animals/who-are-the-real-pests/

A struggle to co-exist with humans https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/a-struggle-to-co-exist-with-humans/article31877630.ece

Scientists lament ‘Humpty Dumpty’ effect on world’s spectacular, rare wildlife https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/csu-sl060520.php

How wildebeests and other forgotten wild species lose the battle against humans | Science | THE COUNTRY https://elpais.com/ciencia/2020-07-08/como-los-nus-y-otras-especies-salvajes-olvidadas-pierden-la-batalla-frente-al-ser-humano.html

SMITHSONIAN – Colorado Votes to Reintroduce Wolves to the Southern Rocky Mountains https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/colorado-votes-reintroduce-wolves-southern-rocky-mountains-180976232/ 

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – Gray wolves to be reintroduced to Colorado in unprecedented vote https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/11/colorado-approves-gray-wolf-reintroduction.html 

THE WILDLIFE SOCIETY As the climate warms, mountain goats seek remnant snow https://wildlife.org/as-the-climate-warms-mountain-goats-seek-remnant-snow/ 

ABC NEWS – Antelope worries prompt lawsuit over Wyoming gas field plan – https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/antelope-worries-prompt-lawsuit-wyoming-gas-field-plan-69083492 

Court to Consider Petition to Protect Pronghorn Migration Route https://www.publicnewsservice.org/2020-02-26/endangered-species-and-wildlife/court-to-consider-petition-to-protect-pronghorn-migration-route/a69367-1 

As rare animals disappear, scientist faces ‘ecological grief’ – Science Daily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172216.htm

Cómo los ñus y otras especies salvajes olvidadas pierden la batalla frente al ser humano | Ciencia | EL PAÍS https://elpais.com/ciencia/2020-07-08/como-los-nus-y-otras-especies-salvajes-olvidadas-pierden-la-batalla-frente-al-ser-humano.html

A struggle to co-exist with humans https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/science/a-struggle-to-co-exist-with-humans/article31877630.ece 

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  6. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/06/11/rare-animals-disappear-scientist-faces-ecological-grief
  7. http://ens-newswire.com/2020/06/09/wildife-suffers-humpty-dumpty-effect-as-humans-multiply/
  8. https://www.enn.com/articles/63978-scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-world-s-rare-wildlife
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2019

BBC Interview – Why I Dress for Science as  Polar Bear; https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p07fs8rj

Wild Fibers – Life in Russian Arctic https://www.wildfibersmagazine.com/ 

National Geographic Book Talk – https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/09/arctic-conservation-species-climate-change-warming-book-talk/ April 2019  “Wildlife Corridor Conservation Act” introduced into the House – US Congress,  with Path of the Pronghorn as a Model – ‘this’ being the only federally protected migration corridor in USA – based on Berger et al science, as below) .  https://www.congress.gov/bill/116th-congress/senate-bill/1499

Pastoralists from the Twin Poles Unite Approaches; https://ensia.com/features/from-the-himalayas-to-the-arctic-traditional-herders-are-sharing-knowledge-to-cope-with-a-changing-climate/   

State of Wyoming Aims to Extend Protection for Protection https://www.wyofile.com/game-and-fish-proposes-new-migration-corridor-protections/

Precedent for Migration Protection  https://www.jhnewsandguide.com/news/environmental/article_bf4793cd-20f9-5d21-9f8d-9caf3cd740a8.html 

2018

New York Times profile (Arctic, muskoxen, and climate) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/18/science/musk-oxen-climate-change.html

The Atlantic profile (Ice tsunami and death in Arctic) https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/01/the-ice-tsunami-that-entombed-the-arctics-weirdest-mammal/550808/

NPR-Alaska Interview https://www.ktoo.org/2018/01/30/winter-rain-is-compromising-baby-muskoxen-in-western-alaska/

Justicehttps://earther.com/this-muskoxen-paper-is-the-best-thing-ive-read-all-year-1822229036

National Geographic News https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/muskoxen-shrink-freeze-arctic-climate-change/

Chile – Punta Arenas Investigation in Espanol  https://laprensaaustral.cl/suplementos/77df6ab82554e75e0de9fc976882c761576c24a9.pdf 

Chile – latercera – Chile: https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/la-historia-del-cientifico-norteamericano-que-le-sigue-la-huella-al-huemul/372375/ 

Ice Tsunamihttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-5288529/Horrific-aftermath-terrifying-ice-tsunami.html 

Professor Dresses Like Animals  https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/local/fort-collins/2018/01/23/csu-professor-dresses-like-animals-so-he-can-study-them/1059590001/ 

Conservation takes one scientist to the extreme | Popular Science https://www.popsci.com/conservation-takes-one-scientist-to-extreme

Climate change threatens hairy survivor of multiple ice ages | CBC Newhttps://www.cbc.ca/…/warming-temperatures-freezing-rain-harmful-muskox-1.44935..

Predators, Prey, and Vodka – https://wikkorg.wordpress.com/2018/08/23/predators-prey-and-vodka/ 

Colorado ABC-Denver   https://youtu.be/Vkv-KKFUwFU 

Colorado Public Radio  https://www.cpr.org/news/story/meet-the-scientist-who-dresses-up-like-a-polar-bear-to-better-know-some-musk-oxen 

OP-EDS & PODCASTS

Extreme Species with Joel Berger – 2023. https://www.mammalwatching.com/podcast/

Recreation, People, & Wildlife – 2023. https://soundcloud.com/user-495802209/human-noise-and-the-desert-bighorn

To Inspire Young Conservation Scientists  – 2023. https://podcasts.apple.com/kh/podcast/conserving-species-in-extreme-environments-dr-joel-berger/id858218890

People Behind the Science – 2022. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-behind-the-science/id858218890

This Green Earth – 2022. https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/this-green-earth-october-25-2022/id1384744192?i=1000583879164

Respect Your Elders https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/02/03/commentary-respecting-our-elders-should-never-grow-old/18

Newcast#9; Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation. PODCAST  Mongabay – https://news.mongabay.com/2017/01/newscast-9-joel-berger-on-overlooked-edge-species-that-deserve-conservation/ 

Yak Life – 2015. PODCAST: Yak Life (Conversation with Joel Berger); http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/chewing-cud-wild-yaks 

Polar bear diplomacy: Where the US and Russia can agree. 2014 Christian Science Monitor Weekly  June 2

Russian-American Collaboration Carries on in Key Arctic Ecosystem.  – 2014  https://e360.yale.edu/digest/russian-american_collaboration_carries_on_in_key_arctic_ecosystem/4137/ 

Studying a Polar Menagerie On an Island in Arctic Russia.  2014 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/studying_a_polar_menagerie_on_an_island_in_arctic_russia/4126/ 

On Far-Flung Wrangel Island, A Scientist Sizes up Muskoxen.  2014   Yale Environment 360;  https://e360.yale.edu/digest/on_far-flung_wrangel_island_a_scientist_sizes_up_muskoxen/4121/ 

A Life in the wild – Biologist Joel Berger. M. Lee (writer) Outside Magazine 人物/山野之子124-127 (In Chinese).

Demand for cashmere triggers ecological imbalance in central Asian deserts. S. Sekard (journalist) Nature (India) doi:10.1038/nindia.2013.108

CONTROVERSY

Scientists: ‘Path of the Pronghorn’ misrepresented in gasfield suit, 23 May 2023 https://wyofile.com/scientists-path-of-the-pronghorn-misrepresented-in-gasfield-suit/

Berger arrested in Russia, 2016 https://issuu.com/joelbergerconservation/docs/berger_arrested_in_russia.docx

Biologists out of Africa over rhino dispute, 21 April 1994, Nature https://joelbergerconservation.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Biologists-out-of-Africa-Nature-1994.pdf

Arctic Alaska’s Conservation Conundrum,  2012  National Geographic Op-Ed; http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2012/02/02/arctic-alaskas-conservation-conundrum/

Protecting Wildlife Corridors,  https://www.hcn.org/issues/43.22/protecting-wildlife-corridors-remains-more-theory-than-practice?b_start:int=1#body

The Damage Cashmere Does – A Fashion Week Warning, 2013;  New York Daily News. September 9

The Hidden Cost of Cashmere, 2017.  Forbes. http://www.forbes.com/sites/insideasia/2017/02/16/cashmere-cost-environment/#21458cfa4378

Dogs are man’s best friend — but one of wildlife’s worst, 2017.  Washington Post (2017) https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dogs-are-mans-best-friend–but-one-of-wildlifes-worst-foes/2017/03/24/2d2c9232-ed7f-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html?utm_term=.2f5e9097ea4f

Conservationists can work with Zinke to protect wildlife corridors,  SLT August 6 2018   https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/commentary/2018/08/06/commentary/ Respecting Your Elders should never Grow Old (Berger Op-Ed) – SLT 2018;