Select media coverage
Interviews and multimedia:
Science Friday, National Public Radio: Rethinking Invasive Species with Pablo Escobar’s Hippos
Heat Death: The War on Invasive Species Is Making Things Worse: An Interview With Erick Lundgren
Quirks and Quarks, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation: Wild donkeys and horses dig wells in the desert, and create a refuge for plants and animals
Outpost Media: Wild Science: Ecosystem Engineers
Quirks and Quarks, CBC: How Pablo Escobar's escaped hippos are helping to restore an ancient ecosystem
Written:
2023
Tove Danovich, The Atlantic: Give Invasive Species a Job
2022
Los Angeles Times: Mountain lions are eating California wild donkeys. Why scientists say this a good thing
Asher Elbein, The New York Times and Seattle Times: Death Valley’s Invasive Donkeys Have Become Cat Food
Smithsonian Magazine: Cougars Are Killing Feral Donkeys, and That’s Good for Wetlands
Science: First photos of cougars killing donkeys in Death Valley suggest big impacts for ecosystem
2021
Smithsonian: Wild Donkeys and Horses Dig Wells That Provide Water for a Host of Desert Species
National Geographic: Wild horses and donkeys dig wells in the desert, providing water for wildlife
Cosmos: Horses and donkeys engineer water for desert ecosystems
2020
The New York Times: Pablo Escobar’s Hippos Fill a Hole Left Since Ice Age Extinctions
The Washington Post, The Great Conundrum of Pablo Escobar’s Hippos
The Guardian, Pablo Escobar's 'cocaine hippos' show how invasive species can restore a lost world
Others: El Pais, National Geographic, Delayed Gratification, Huffpost, Popular Science, Newsweek, Phys.org, IFL Science
2019
Undark; picked up by High Country News & Popular Science: Death Valley’s Park Service wants them gone. But are wild donkeys really the enemy?
Anthropocene Magazine: How would biodiversity look if we counted non-native animals?
2017
The National Geographic: These Giant Invasive Beasts May Actually Be Good for the Planet
Anthropocene Magazine: Big, non-native mammal invaders: not a problem, but a solution
New Scientist: Large non-native species like donkeys can boost biodiversity
Earther: Invasive hippos, camels, and elephants offer a glimmer of hope for Earth’s megafauna