MEDIA
RECENT, SELECTED MEDIA, COVERAGE
2024
Flirting with Disaster – wild yaks and camels, and conservation conflict (The Conversation)
Path of the Pronghorn under Threat (Wyo File)
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 Nation — https://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 pests – https://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
- https://www.azocleantech.com/news.aspx?newsID=27420
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200612172216.htm
- https://scienmag.com/as-rare-animals-disappear-scientist-faces-ecological-grief/
- https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/uoca-ara061220.php
- https://sciencebulletin.org/scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-worlds-spectacular-rare-wildlife/
- https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/06/11/rare-animals-disappear-scientist-faces-ecological-grief
- http://ens-newswire.com/2020/06/09/wildife-suffers-humpty-dumpty-effect-as-humans-multiply/
- https://www.enn.com/articles/63978-scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-world-s-rare-wildlife
- http://7thspace.com/headlines/1213160/scientists_lament_humpty_dumpty_effect_on_worlds_spectacular__rare_wildlife.html
- https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/06/200609095042.htm
- https://kopalniawiedzy.pl/ludzie-populacja-rozrost-takin-zloty-huemal-chilijski-saola-wietnamska-wymieranie-powiazania,32170
- https://trueviralnews.com/scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-worlds-spectacular-rare-wildlife/
- https://phys.org/news/2020-06-scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect.html
- https://www.newswise.com/articles/scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-world-s-most-spectacular-rare-wildlife
- https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-06/csu-sl060520.php
- https://sciencenewsnet.in/scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-world-s-most-spectacular-rare-wildlife/
- https://www.myvetcandy.com/newsblog/2020/7/12/scientists-lament-humpty-dumpty-effect-on-worlds-spectacular-rare-wildlife
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/
Justice – https://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 Tsunami – http://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 News https://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
One Wild World Podcast: Joel asks and tries to answer: What Can Extreme Species Teach Us About Survival? – 2024.
Extreme Species with Joel Berger – 2023.
Recreation, People, & Wildlife – 2023.
To Inspire Young Conservation Scientists – 2023.
People Behind the Science – 2022.
This Green Earth – 2022.
Respect Your Elders – 2018
Newcast#9; Joel Berger on overlooked ‘edge species’ that deserve conservation. PODCAST Mongabay – 2017
Yak Life PODCAST (Conversation with Joel Berger) – 2015
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
Studying a Polar Menagerie On an Island in Arctic Russia. 2014
On Far-Flung Wrangel Island, A Scientist Sizes up Muskoxen. 2014 Yale Environment 360
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://
Arctic Alaska’s Conservation Conundrum, 2012 National Geographic Op-Ed; http://voices.
Protecting Wildlife Corridors, https://www.hcn.org/issues/43.
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/
Dogs are man’s best friend — but one of wildlife’s worst, 2017. Washington Post (2017) https://www.
Conservationists can work with Zinke to protect wildlife corridors, SLT August 6 2018 https://www.sltrib.com/