The emotions people experience in response to biodiversity loss can adversely impact human health and well-being. Ecological grief has been described as “grief felt in relation to experienced or anticipated ecological losses, including the loss of species, ecosystems and meaningful landscapes due to acute or chronic environmental change.” Ecological grief is a topic of increasing interest by researchers in the biological and social sciences, with potential applications for therapeutic practition
Ecological grief: crying out for science on common ground
Jamie K. Reaser
