Guiding light or rather misguiding light?

By Leonie Hetzer – “’Cause even when there is no star in sight, you’ll always be my only guiding light” sing Mumford & Sons. However good these words could describe the fatal end for turtles when the guiding light is, in fact, street lighting on coastal roadways. It disrupts the nocturnal orientation of turtle hatchlings…

The Guatemalan beaded lizard: how saving one shunned species could protect many others

by Maisie Mitchell – Heloderma charlesbogerti, commonly known as the Guatemalan beaded lizard, is arguably already one of the most misunderstood species on the planet, despite only being classed as one in 2013[1]; when it comes to local folklore, the beaded lizard is so notoriously mythologised that it’s often killed on sight[2]. With only around…

Environmental Challenges 101

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Guiding light or rather misguiding light?

The Guatemalan beaded lizard: how saving one shunned species could protect many others