Rachel Nuwer is an independent American journalist and author of the 2018 nonfiction book Poached: Inside the Dark World of Wildlife Trafficking (Da Capo Press). She has covered the issue of poaching from the perspectives of criminals, activists and science for years in prominent publications, including the Smithsonian, BBC Future, The New York Times, and National Geographic.
Early life
Nuwer grew up in
Mississippi and studied biology at Loyola University New Orleans, where she researched
Mekong fish.
She earned a master's degree in
ecology at the University of East Anglia and attended New York University's Science, Health and Environmental Reporting Program.
Her master's thesis for her East Anglia degree was published by the Cambridge University Press.
Nuwer says that her education in biology helped shape her career.
Career
Nuwer has written for
Smithsonian,
BBC Future,
The New York Times, and
National Geographic.
She is well known for working under cover to access
for wildlife.
Nuwer's 2023 book,
, examines the cultural and scientific aspects of
MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy. A review of the book in
Reason said that Nuwer "mostly prefers to explore the positive potential of ecstasy and the forces, such as MAPS, seeking to unleash it" and that her book "covers a little too briefly" adverse events like suicidal ideation of in some trial participants.
Awards and honors
Nuwer won the Abe Fellowship for Journalists in 2017.
Her book Poached won the American Society of Journalists and Authors general non-fiction book award,
Bibliography
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[Online version is titled "Fish eggs survive journey through a duck".]
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