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Wild Kin News is for readers who are fascinated by wild animals and curious about the complicated relationships between humans, wildlife, and the natural world. Nature writer and memoirist Amanda Mander, writing as AR Mander, shares weekly thought-provoking wildlife conservation stories, emerging research, and personal essays drawn from more than a decade of volunteering with elephants, rhinos, orangutans, birds, and other animals across five continents.
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Sample Posts
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Stairs for Hedgehogs
Imagine walking along the canal in Amsterdam and coming across small wooden stairway leading down to the water. In another setting you might think this is a staircase for fairies or gnomes like the tiny doors nailed to trees in gardens. But this stairway is made for real inhabitants of Amsterdam, just not the human ones... writerarmander.substack.com/p/stairs-for-hedgehogs |
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Seahorses in the Thames?
In the summer of 1957, The Natural History Museum in London gave the Thames a new description: biologically dead. The water was black, sheened with industrial waste, thick with raw sewage from a city of eight million people. No oxygen worth measuring was recorded by the instruments they lowered into the muck. It had in fact been dying since the Industrial Revolution, when London’s population exploded and the sewage infrastructure failed to keep pace... writerarmander.substack.com/p/seahorses-in-the-thames |
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Do I need to be cute to attract conservation dollars?
I have watched people coo over a lion cub’s face and take an involuntary step back from a vulture’s. The lion cub gets the plush toy, the zoo gift shop mug, the Instagram account with half a million followers. The vulture gets a shudder and, if she’s lucky, a paragraph in a field guide... writerarmander.substack.com/p/do-i-need-to-be-cute-to-attract-conservation |