Half the Earth
The Yangtze still has a porpoise
China closed its longest river to fishing for ten years. The finless porpoise recovered. The Chinese sturgeon, endangered for another reason, did not.
Witness4 min read
Section
Half the Earth
Protected areas, corridors, rewilding, and the argument for leaving half the planet to everything else.
Half the Earth
How much of the Earth is actually protected
About a sixth of the land and a twelfth of the sea, by the latest global count. What the figures include, why they move, and how far they are from thirty.
Witness4 min read
The app
Reading is where it starts.
Witness brings one species a week to your phone: a drawn plate, its true story with sources, and one honest action. These notes are the reading between them.