Beasts of the Urban Wild
April 21, 2016
4/18/16 – As part of an emerging debate on conservation science, described in Issues, one side holds that the spread of human-dominated environments will endanger biological biodiversity, while the other side foresees creative bursts of expanding diversity. In what may provide at least a small base for measurement, a museum in Los Angeles is massing a citizen army to inventory all of the county’s wildlife, becoming what organizers say will be the world’s biggest study of urban biodiversity.