Why a MeatEater Conservation Newsletter?
Hunters and anglers face a particular challenge today.
As a community, we seem more interested than ever in understanding the news and issues that impact the future of wildlife, wild places, and our hunting and fishing ways of life. But at the same time, it might be harder than ever to actually do that.
Go to the mainstream media and you’d never know that hunting, fishing, or conservation existed. Turn to social media, though, and you’ll instead drink from a firehose on these topics—but with serious questions about the quality.
I’ve struggled with all of this myself for years—trying to find good ways to stay up-to-speed on the issues that impact my outdoor passions while simultaneously trying to make sense of it all. Of all the conservation and wildlife and public land news out there, what’s truly of concern and what’s sensationalized? What do I actually need to know and what should I do with that knowledge?
For much of the last decade I’ve found myself sorting through dozens of different resources, websites, newsletters, podcasts, films, and personalities—all with the hopes of finding a silver bullet answer to these questions.
Until one day I realized I would just need to build it myself.
And so we have.
We spend countless hours every month tracking down, filtering, and trying to make sense of a firehose of hunt/fish/conservation news. We've launched this newsletter so you don't have to do the same.
The goal for this MeatEater Conservation newsletter is to curate for you a quick review of the most important conservation news relevant to hunters and anglers, along with occasional interpretation from myself and others on the MeatEater team about how we’re thinking about these things too.
What you can expect here, every other week, is a brief introduction exploring an important conservation issue of the moment, a review of the latest conservation material from across the MeatEater universe, and a curated list of the most important news from across the rest of the web. A simple, high-quality way to arm yourself with the knowledge necessary to be an engaged advocate for the wildlife, wild places, and opportunities that make our hunting and fishing way of life so rich.
If you want this newsletter in your inbox every other week, sign up using the link below.
Thanks for joining us.
-Mark Kenyon
