Josh Donlan writes about Pleistocene Dreams and rewilding in the July/August issue of Orion Magazine.

Josh Donlan comments on the feasibility of removing invasive beavers from southern South America in Nature Magazine. Click here for a copy of the article.

Josh Donlan was awarded the John V. Krutilla Research Award by Resources for the Future.

Josh Donlan is selected as a 2008 Kinship Conservation Fellow. He will join 17 others from around the world to explore business and economic tools for biodiversity conservation gains.

Josh Donlan accepts an invitation from SEED Media Group to blog on the Science Blog Shifting Baselines, which is dedicated to providing cures to ecological amnesia. Go there regularly for interesting perspectives and news.

Josh Donlan and Chris Wilcox publish the report “A path to a return on investment framework for island restoration with a focus on seabirds” for the Commonweal Ocean Policy Program.

Josh Donlan and Burr Heneman publish the report “Maximizing return on investments for island restoration with a focus on seabird conservation” for the Commonweal Ocean Policy Program.

Josh Donlan was awarded a Practitioner Fellowship with the Alcoa Foundation Conservation & Sustainability Program to work with the World Conservation Union to explore biodiversity offsets as a tool for fisheries bycatch management. Josh will be working with IUCN staff on policy surrounding offsets and bycatch management.

Josh Donlan and Chris Wilcox exchange words with Dan Doak and colleagues and David Priddel on the challenges and opportunities of biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch in the pages of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment.

Josh Donlan and Chris Wilcox publish an essay “Integrating invasive mammal eradications and biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch: conservation opportunities and challenges for seabirds and sea turtles” in the upcoming issue of Biological Invasions.

Eric Jaffe writes about biodiversity offsets for fisheries bycatch in Smithsonian Magazine based on Chris Wilcox and Josh Donlan’s paper “Compensatory mitigation as a solution to fisheries bycatch-biodiversity conservation conflicts” in the August 2007 issue in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and Environment.

The Wilderness Conservation Society-Ecuador and Advanced Conservation Strategies hosted a conservation strategies workshop for Ecuadorian students and conservationists in Maquipucuna Field Station in Ecuador. WCS-Ecuador Director Esteban Suárez and ACS Director Josh Donlan co-taught the four-day workshop, which was attended by 15 conservation biologists.