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Andrew Carter

@ecoandrew.bsky.social
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Director of Biodiversity Policy, Dept. of Conservation Policy, Defenders of Wildlife. Affiliate faculty at GMU ESP. JD, PhD. Environmental social scientist, lawyer, policy analyst. "#Wildlife Conservation" feed. My views here, not employer's.

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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 10h
I was snubbed again
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"What was the name of your third grade teacher?" Uhhh how would I remember that? Online verification questions have me feeling old.
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning, team. We have 3.5 days until Drexel closes the Academy of Natural Sciences. It’s time for you- yeah YOU- to make some calls. Step 1: Tell the following people we need help pressuring Drexel to keep the museum open: Josh Shaprio 717-787-2500 Mayor Parker's 215-686-2181
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
For those of you who appreciate sci-fi metaphors in your lawsuits… www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/files/2026/0...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Not the healthiest hobby www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/n...
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People Keep Sneaking Into New York City Sewers. No One Knows Why.
A recent spate of subterranean exploring has piqued the curiosity of New Yorkers — and concerned officials who warn of danger underground.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Offered without context
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
therevelator.org/conserving-c... Excellent coverage of our recent article and animal culture and conservation generally from The Revelator...
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Conserving Culture in Endangered Species • The Revelator
Could preserving the regional knowledge and behavior of certain species also help conservation efforts?
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is unbelievably cool
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
If you have not read John Crowley’s “Little, Big” then…you should.
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Sean Marshall @seanyyz.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Why I’m a fan of the Oxford comma.
TORONTO STAR
BOOK REVIEW
Sylvia Plath, a New York vigilante and Shah of Iran featured in latest historical fiction
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
New paper out of our team at Defenders of Wildlife today in Oryx on the implications of nonhuman animal culture on conservation: www.cambridge.org/core/journal... 🌎
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
Axolotl puppets by my daughter
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
New proposed shark listing under the Endangered Species Act just dropped. www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
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Public Inspection: Endangered and Threatened Species: 12-Month Findings on a Petition to List the Tope Shark and Proposed Listing of Two Distinct Population Segments of Tope Shark
Endangered and Threatened Species: 12-Month Findings on a Petition to List the Tope Shark and Proposed Listing of Two Distinct Population Segments of Tope Shark
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I remain an AI skeptic but Claude really is scarily good.
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Dr. Catherine Macdonald @drcatmac.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
I wrote a paper with @ecoandrew.bsky.social that included some of the policy changes around this and we ended up developing a grad student drinking game around assertions that shark feeding and freedom were synonyms.
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Blood in the Water: Shark Feeding, Tourism, and the Law | Center for Conservation Innovation
Shark tourism has become a significant driver of tourist dollars both in the United States and abroad over the past few decades, with shark provisioning (feeding), often used by shark tour companies t...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
A very good idea; even better would be for NOAA Fisheries to actually put in protections under the Endangered Species Act. It's already listed as threatened under the Act so it would not be a big lift.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
My new blog post on some Endangered Species Act success stories! 🦤 defenders.org/blog/2026/01...
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Recovery Spotlight: Channel Island Foxes
Rising like a miniature mountain range out of the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California is an eight-island archipelago called the Cha
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Dr Selena Wisnom @lswisnom.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Tip for iNaturalist users in the United States: If a species is listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act, you probably should not take a picture of you holding it for iNaturalist.
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Adam Ford @adamtford.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
After a few days of travel, i walked into my office and something looked a bit off.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Published today by our team at Defenders of Wildlife's Center for Conservation Innovation on the Endangered Species Act's HCP program: conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... 🦤 Lead author is CCI's Heather Harl!
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Unfortunately the administration is setting it up to deny migratory birds protection under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Good article (and not just because they quote me!) on this: www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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Trump just weakened one of the nation’s oldest environmental laws
The Interior Department suspended a legal opinion holding companies liable for accidentally killing ducks, cranes, pelicans, owls and other bird species.
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Dr. Kerryane @drkerryane.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
90% of Americans accept the science on vaccines. Because they save millions of lives. Because they are safe and effective. Because it's the least we can do for each other. 🧪
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Score!
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
It is beyond annoying to get locked into an argument with a 4 year old then realize at the end that they are actually right about something.
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Andrew D Thaler @drandrewthaler.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
So, yeah, shameless plug: Back my Patreon. Patreon contributions absolutely made the OpenCTD possible. Patreon contributions keep Southern Fried Science running. Patreon contributions let me take time to work on our town's Smart Buoy for sea level rise monitoring. www.patreon.com/Andrew_Thaler
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creating tools for ocean science, education, and conservation.
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This is so cool - this study used Chinese poetry to reconstruct 1400 years of range change for the Yangtze finless porpoise, and showed that most of the range loss happened in the last century papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Maps and graphs of range contraction over different dynasties
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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
every truly quality poster i know treats this website like a dumping ground for the evil thoughts infesting their brain and posts like they're trying to get rid of their followers as quickly as possible
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
My 4-year old referred to my job as "writing animals" and I guess that's kind of a good, punchy description.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
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Defenders Applauds Overdue Listing for Monarch Butterfly
“The protections that come with Endangered Species Act listing increase the chance that these precious pollinators will rebound and recover throughout their historic range," said Defenders' Andrew Car...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Found on my office desk this morning…
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Do you know a government website with data that might be at risk in the new administration? Nominate sites for inclusion in the EOT Web Archive!
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
darmok and jalad at lunch
Behind the scenes picture of the Tamarian captain in Darkmok (Dathan) eating lunch with Patrick Stewart, who is in a hoodie. 🖖
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 21/11/2024
You can literally have a bath in real crude oil, just near #cop29 www.nytimes.com/2024/11/21/w...
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Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? ...
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COP29 Climate Summit >
What to Know
China's Soaring Emissions
I bathed in oil during the U.N. climate summit.
It was crude oil from a half-mile underground, pumped into a bathtub at a hotel in
Azerbaijan. It crept into every crevice of my submerged body and every fold of my skin. It smothered the hair on my limbs, making me look a little like an animal stuck in an oil spill. Then came an attendant to scrape it all off.
Just a day earlier, I had been covering the United Nations' annual climate conference, COP29, which is being held this month in Baku, Azerbaijan, a place that helped give rise to the modern oil industry more than a century ago, enabling and endangering our civilization.
Much has been made of the incongruity of those fighting to reduce fossil-fuel emissions gathering in a petrostate, but Azerbaijanis are proud of their oil, whatever conference attendees might think of it. For instance, it fueled the Soviet defeat of the Nazis in World
War II.
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Bathing in Oil at a Climate Summit? ...
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COP29 Climate Summit >
What to Know
China's Soaring Emissions
I bathed in oil during the U.N. climate summit.
It was crude oil from a half-mile underground, pumped into a bathtub at a hotel in
Azerbaijan. It crept into every crevice of my submerged body and every fold of my skin. It smothered the hair on my limbs, making me look a little like an animal stuck in an oil spill. Then came an attendant to scrape it all off.
Just a day earlier, I had been covering the United Nations' annual climate conference, COP29, which is being held this month in Baku, Azerbaijan, a place that helped give rise to the modern oil industry more than a century ago, enabling and endangering our civilization.
Much has been made of the incongruity of those fighting to reduce fossil-fuel emissions gathering in a petrostate, but Azerbaijanis are proud of their oil, whatever conference attendees might think of it. For instance, it fueled the Soviet defeat of the Nazis in World
War II.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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Victoria Bogdan Tejeda @vbogg.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
❗ Big enviro law breaking news: DC Circuit holds that Council on Enviro Quality (CEQ) doesn't have lawful authority to issue binding regs interpreting NEPA (a position no party in the case advanced.) Still digesting what this could mean. CEQ had an Exec Order from Nixon to promulgate regs.
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 12/03/2024
"The most common ranking across all five countries is ‘Grossly Unaligned’, with Norway coming out worst with seven ‘Grossly Unaligned’ ratings out of 11" Huge new OCI report out today on us North Sea fossil fuel suppliers - and our desires to supply even more priceofoil.org/2024/03/12/n...
a graphic of fossil fuel suppliers in the north sea ranked - text below 

BENCHMARK RATINGS OF THE NORTH SEA COUNTRIES
Fully aligned
Close to aligned
Partially aligned
Unaligned
THE NETHERLANDS
Grossly unaligned
NORWAY
THE UK
GERMANY
DENMARK
1. Align policy framework with the Paris goals and COP28 agreement to transition away from fossil fuels
2. End new licensing (including extensions of existing licenses)
3. Stop approving new development
4. A Paris-aligned date for ending production
5. International cooperation
A. Provide a fair share of support to Global South countries, including to phase out production
B. Work with other governments towards a global oil and gas
phase-out 6. Design fiscal terms to align investment behaviour with
production decline goals
7. Adopt and implement just transition policies
8. Regulation of environmental impact
A. Regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the production process
B. Protect ecologically valuable areas from oil and gas production
9. Plan for r
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 23/02/2024
Last year marked 50 years of the Endangered Species Act, one of the most important environmental laws. I interviewed conservation scientist Dr. Lindsay Rosa, the author of a new report about what the ESA needs for the future. Enjoy! 🧪🌎
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After 50 years of conservation, what’s next for the Endangered Species Act?
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act, one of the earliest, strongest, and most important conservation laws on Earth. The environmental non-profit Defenders of Wildlife wro…
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Sarah Day 🖋️🦊 @sarahday.org · 19/02/2024
Bob Mossi
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David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 16/02/2024
Clear smoking-gun evidence that one of the most critically endangered marine mammals was killed by lobster fishing gear- something lobstermen have been vehemently claiming is impossible.
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/02/2024
@ethanfreedman.bsky.social could I be added to Ecology and Conservation?
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 13/02/2024
Farewell, conch fritters www.federalregister.gov/public-inspe...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 14/01/2024
If you are interested in the future of the Endangered Species Act you may want to catch my colleague Lindsay Rosa and me on the newest National Parks Traveler podcast: www.nationalparkstraveler.org/podcast/2024...
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National Parks Traveler Podcast Episode 257 | The Future of the Endangered Species Act
2023 marked the 50th anniversary of the Endangered Species Act. We’re going to explore that today with authors of a new report from Defenders of Wildlife, “The Endangered Species Act: The Next 50 ...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 12/01/2024
New article highlighting our report and AI work: subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...
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Andrew Carter @ecoandrew.bsky.social · 11/01/2024
Check out our new ESA report! defenders.org/newsroom/def...
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