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When Biologists Get Bombed

Or shot at by soldiers. This isn't textbook conservation science

By Susan Milius

- More than 2 years ago

Elephant-biologist-in-training Joseph P. Dudley didn’t need a message from the department chairman to know that his plans for a master’s degree project had crashed and burned.

War is hardly going to go away, argues a core of conservation biologists. So isn’t it about time to face reality and figure out how to cope with field sites turned into battlefields? National Archives

“It made world news,” he recalls dryly.