Policy
What the Endangered Species Act protects, and what it no longer does
The 1973 law read section by section, and the one regulatory word, harm, whose rescission in September 2026 changed what it covers.
Witness12 min read
Section
Policy
Laws, courts, treaties, and budgets, read closely.
Policy
The lead ban worked and the poisonings rose
California banned lead ammunition twice, and condor lead deaths went up. An analysis of nearly three decades of records explains how both can be true.
Witness4 min read
Policy
CITES governs borders, not habitat
The third list people confuse with the other two. What the treaty controls, what it cannot touch, and why a party can opt out of any listing it dislikes.
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.