William H. Funk • Journalist | Documentarian | Environmental Attorney
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    • Aliens Among Us
    • Berea College: Radical Equality in Appalachia
    • Birds, Blades, and the Brutal Business of Clean Energy
    • A Century of Conserving Virginia's Wildlife Resources
    • Climbing the Last Light: An Afternoon of Hawkwatching
    • Corruption and Lack of Law Enforcement Threaten the Last great Apes of Africa and Asia
    • Eden Besieged: Amazonia's Matchless Wildlife Targeted by Traffickers
    • Epiphany on Pilot Mountain: How the Raven Set My Soul to Rights
    • From Cheetahs to Wood Ducks
    • A Fundamental Freedom: Retaining Hunting Opportunities Through Land Conservation
    • Gallinaceous Grand Slam: One Man’s Cross-Country Obsession with Quail
    • Glimpses of Seasons: A Pilgrimage to the Birthplace of Robert Penn Warren
    • Guns & Roses
    • Grub Street Revisited
    • Hearts of Darkness
    • Hemlock Woolly Adelgid & the Race to Save the East's Old-Growth Forests
    • A Hunter's Paradise That Pays for Itself
    • Highways of Death, Corridors of Life
    • In the Forests of the Night: The Great Horned Owl
    • Like Him We Prey; Like Him We Slay: A Call for Shark Conservation
    • Look What's Killing Our Oldest Trees
    • A Master Archer Channels the Past
    • A Most Patient Predator: North Carolina's Resurgent Alligator
    • Nature Needs Half
    • The Night Riders: Sacred Fire & Revolutionary Justice in the Black Patch
    • Old Man of the Mountains: The Northern Raven in Virginia
    • On the Hunt for Appalachia's Secretive Golden Eagles
    • Preserving the Real World
    • Retaining a Geography of Hope: How Conservation Easements Preserve Virginia's Family Farms and Wildlife Habitat
    • Return of a Native: The Virginia Elk
    • Room Enough for All: How Farmland Preservation Can Help Wildlife Thrive
    • A Sad Tale's Best for Winter: White-Nosed Syndrome Casts an Icy Shroud Over the East's Bat Populations
    • Scavenger Angel: The Turkey Vulture Reconsidered
    • Some Reflections on Frog Hunting
    • The Territory Ahead: A Bobcat's Tale
    • Five Easy Pieces >
      • The Anthropocene: Mankind’s Grim Legacy Writ in Stone
      • Bee Fences Reduce Human - Elephant Conflict
      • Loss of Matriarchs Means the End of Elephant Memory
      • Of Lynx, Rabbits, and a Warming World
      • South Sudan's Precarious Profusion of Wildlife
    • An Unnatural Silence: Colony Collapse Disorder and the Pollination Crisis
    • What the World Would Look Like If Humans Hadn't Killed All the Animals
    • With What Time Remains: Land Conservation in North Carolina
    • Virginia's Black Bear: Saga of a Survivor
    • Photography & Film >
      • Commercial Fishing Harbor, Wanchese, North Carolina
      • The Least of These
      • Return of a Native: The Atlantic Puffin Comes Home to New England
      • Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum, Weston, West Virginia
    • Metinic Island in the Gulf of Maine
    • Book Reviews >
      • Abbey, Edward • Desert Solitaire
      • Abbey, Edward • The Fool's Progress
      • Bass, Rick • The Lost Grizzlies
      • Bonner, Raymond • At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife
      • Bunker, Michael • Surviving Off-Grid: Decolonizing the Industrial Mind
      • Capstick, Peter Hathaway • Warrior: The Legend of Colonel Richard Meinertzhagen
      • Chappel, Steve • Confessions of an Eco-Redneck
      • Cokinos, Christopher • Hope is the Thing with Feathers
      • Crosby, Alfred • Ecological Imperialism
      • Devall, Bill and George Sessions • Living as if Nature Mattered
      • Elton, C. S. • The Ecology of Invasions by Animals and Plants
      • Freyfogle, Eric D., editor • The New Agrarianism
      • Fuller, Lon • The Morality of Law
      • Maehr, David, Reed F. Noss and Jeffrey L. Larkin, editors • Large Animal Restoration
      • Manes, Christopher • Green Rage: Radical Environmentalism and the Unmaking of Civilization
      • Matthiessen, Peter • The Birds of Heaven
      • Matthiessen, Peter • Men's Lives
      • Matthiessen, Peter • Wildlife in America
      • McKibben, Bill • The End of Nature
      • McNeely, Jeffrey A. • Economics and Biodiversity
      • Nabhan, Gary Paul • Enduring Seeds: Native American Wild Plant Agriculture and Wild Plant Conservation
      • O'Brien, Dan • The Rites of Autumn
      • Paehlke, Robert • Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics
      • Reisner, Marc • Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers
      • Shafer, Craig L. • Nature Reserves: Island Theory and Conservation Practice
      • Todd, Nancy and John Todd • Bioshelters, Ocean Arks, City Farming: Ecology as the Basis of Design
      • Weber, Michael L. • From Abundance to Scarcity: A History of US Marine Fisheries Policy
      • Weidensaul, Scott • Living with the Wind: Across the Hemisphere with Migratory Birds
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  • About Me
    • My Regular Blog Posts for the African Wildlife Foundation
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Glimpsing a Lost Seregeti

2/16/2016

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For my first article for Vice's science section Motherboard I examine a study speculating on what the world would still look like without humanity's annihilative presence (hint: it's a lot more exciting).
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    William H. Funk

    I'm a freelance writer focusing on natural history, conservation, and environmental law, policy and politics.

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