![Elephant Depression](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/Elephant Depression/Thumbnail.d7bf5e88.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
"Depression is biological," The experts say. "Feel good! Take Prozac,
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
In old Africa: Dust stirred by bare feet and lions’ paws . . . Gone now.
Read more![Wildlife in Civilization’s Image: A Review of Inanimate](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Wildlife in Civilization’s Image/Thumbnail_2.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Zoe Krasney
The book Inanimate: A Field Guide to Wild Animals in Civilization was born from a dead bear on the side of the road in Eastern Pennsylvania. After stopping to check on the animal, authors Dan and Ellen…
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by John Richardson
Many readers of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? written by renowned Dutch primatologist and ethologist Franz de Waal would be intrigued but perhaps not surprised to learn that chimpanzees…
Read more![The Alternative of Real Ecology: A Review](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/The Alternative of Real Ecology/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Kveldulf Gunnar Larsson offers an important critique of the modern environmental movement and a stark assessment of what people are doing to the planet.
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
It has been almost eight years since the conservation-media magazine Voices for Biodiversity was born. The changes that have occurred over these years, both for the world and for Voices for Biodiversity,…
Read more![Warrior Princess, A Warning](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Review of Warrior Princess/Loita%20Hills.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
When Mindy Budgor, a prospective MBA student, decided to go to Kenya as a volunteer to build a school for the Maasai, she had no idea where this choice would ultimately lead her. As Mindy helped build…
Read more![In Predatory Light](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Book Reviews/In Predatory Light/InPredatoryLightPhoto_1.1d00087f.jpg)
by Zoe Krasney
The photography and text filling the pages of In Predatory Light: Lions and Tigers and Polar Bears haunt like the dissolving edges of a gripping dream. This new book by art and conservation power couple…
Read more![Films for Kids: Wild and Scenic Film Festival](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Youth/KIds Film/FilmsforKids_EricSchlenker-Goodrich400x400.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
Formed in 1993 in Eugene, Oregon, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) states its mission as using “the power of the law to defend and protect the American West’s treasured landscapes, iconic wildlife…
Read more![Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Taos, NM](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/05/ContentImage-1338-260200-8245351490_2746ef972c-150x150.84cdda71.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) produces an annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, which travels from venue to venue each year. One place it comes to is the little town of Taos, New Mexico, home…
Read more![Brilliant Baboons Screened at Taos Shortz Film Festival](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/04/Prayer%20Flags.1d00087f.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
For the second year in a row, Izilwane—Voices for Biodiversity had one of its films accepted by the Taos Shortz Film Festival, a growing film festival that focuses specifically on films shorter than 28…
Read more![The Future of Life](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Book Reviews/Future of LIfe/Photo_3.1d00087f.jpg)
by Altaire Cambata
E.O. Wilson’s highly influential work The Future of Life begins where one would imagine: the present. Half of all species thrive in tropical rainforests, though any locale with liquid water, organic molecules…
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