Monarchs in Decline

In any language, it's still human-induced climate change...

New book - Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics

Is the land hostile to us, or are we hostile to nature?

Trading Trees for Beef

Plutarch on Eating Meat

Without Compassion for the Sentient...?

Young Voice in Animal/Environmental Ethics: Adhyaan Balaji

Darwin, Botany, and the Curious World of Plants

Smudge: A Remembrance

Humanity's Language: A Meditation on Nature

The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI

A Heron's View

Philosophizing a Pig's Snout

The Wildlife State of Gaia. Ethical Dilemmas in Public Philosophy.

The New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness

Animal Dignity, Melanie Challenger, ed. - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Animals as Medical Experiments - an ASEBL Editorial

Letters to My Sheep - Forthcoming Book by Teya Brooks Pribac

An Open Letter to Peter Godfrey-Smith

Lichens - Vincent Zonca book reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Capabilities and Justice for Animals - Martha Nussbaum book reivewed by Gregory F. Tague

Morality is an Evolved Behavior - Kumar and Campbell book reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Tribute to Dr. Kathryn Coe, Scholar, Teacher, and ASEBL Contributor

An Evolutionary Case for Veganism by Gregory F. Tague

Is there moral justification to eat meat? Gregory F. Tague answers the question in the Ecological Citizen

Alice Crary and Lori Gruen, Animal Crisis. Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Carlo Alvaro, a Philosopher of Virtue Ethics, Comments on Cultured Meat

The Creative Lives of Animals by Carol Gigliotti

The Moral Sense Colloquium V: Sustainability and Ethics

The cultural ecology of food and sustainability by Gregory F. Tague and Sintia Molina

Art and Adaptability: Consciousness and Cognitive Culture by Gregory F. Tague

On the Animal Trail - book by Baptiste Morizot - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Wattana: An Orangutan in Paris - book by Chris Herzfeld - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Saving Orangutans, Saving Our Future - Essay by Sari Fitriani

An Ape Ethic - Extended Abstract Essay - in The Montreal Review

Bird Cottage - novel by Eva Meijer - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Animals' Best Friends - book by Barbara J. King - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

The Sustainability Mindset Principles - book by Isabel Rimanoczy - Reviewed by Gregory F. Tague

Bruce McLeod on Environmental Stewardship

A Story of Us - Cultural Evolution - Book Review by Gregory F. Tague

Animal Pain and Suffering by Athena Milios

"Primates are not..." Essay by Gregory F. Tague in Trace: Journal of Human-Animal Studies

The January 2021 issue (volume 15) of the ASEBL Journal, on Consciousness, has been published

Profile of Author and Vegan Natalie Khazaal on Literary Veganism

Profile of Animal Ethics Philosopher Elisa Aaltola on Literary Veganism

Eva Meijer on When Animals Speak - Review Essay by Gregory F. Tague

Debra Rosenman's The Chimpanzee Chronicles - Review Essay by Gregory F. Tague

David Wood's book, Thinking Plant Animal Human - Review Essay by Gregory F. Tague

Announcing a new venture - Literary Veganism

Moral Sense Colloquium IV - Some Images

Should Meat be Banned? - Book Review by Carlo Alvaro

Can Animals Be Persons? - Book Review by Carlo Alvaro

Ethical Veganism

Unsustainable Life? Essay and photo by Wies Hurkmans

Dialogues on the Human Ape by Dubreuil and Savage-Rumbaugh - A Review

Fighting for Ape Rights

Primate and Great Ape Fundraising

Art and Adaptability

Evolution, Imagination, and Improvisation

Culture and the Human Mind

How Biology Shapes Philosophy

Moral Sense Colloquium III

Inborn Knowledge

Passion, Logic, and Thinking

Origins of Consciousness

Evolution and Human Culture

Art and Aesthetics

Dangerous Liaisons

A Case for the Right Hemisphere

Neuroscience and the Aesthetic Experience

The Drama of Evolution

Dialectical Tradition and India

Morality and Selection

Moral Sense Colloquium II

Jared Diamond on Traditional Societies

Neurophilosophy and Moral Reasoning

The Conquest of Earth

Moral Sense Colloquium I

Self and Soul: Biology Meets Philosophy

Biology and Creativity

Biology of Inspiration

Darwin and Davenport

Guns and Genes

God and Science

Monarchs in Decline

Monarch butterfly habitats are diminished, and as a result their populations are rapidly declining. As stated in Forest Sovereignty: Wildlife Sustainability and Ethics (Oxford: Peter Lang 2025), evolved feeding behaviors or what humans call antagonistic predation are part of multiple functioning systems of Gaia. Human developments reduce animal ranges and movement, affect feeding behaviors, and upset population scales. Plants evolved systems to reward pollinators and seed dispersers. Organisms do not evolve in isolation since flora and fauna occupy a collective habitat. Organisms interacting with each other constitute ecology and evolution, a synergy that once disrupted can devolve into little succession and decline, evidenced in calamitous human deforestation and pollutions.

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