![An excerpt from the novel Deception at the Diamond D Ranch](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Fiction/Deception at the Diamond D Ranch/Thumbnail.c24114d0.jpg)
by G.R. Stahl
Deception at the Diamond D Ranch is a western mystery published by Coffeetown Press, an imprint of Epicenter Press, in April 2022. This chapter digs into two characters’ relationships with the land and…
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by Devin Reese
I got my feet wet in fieldwork as an intern for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in the 1980s. Literally. My feet got wet when my supervisor, biologist Dave Addison, unflappably led me through the…
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by Merlin Pratsch
“In the minutes before sunrise on the edge of the Corcovado, a troop of howler monkeys announces the twilight transition from night to day, reminding us that communication is the key to successful communities…
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by Tamara Blazquez Haik
Mexico City is home to approximately 2,254 wildlife species including insects and other arthropods, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals.
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by Georgia Woodroffe
Africa’s lion population has decreased by an estimated 50 percent in the last 50 years. Due to habitat loss, depletion of wild prey, poor livestock management and conflict with humans, it is believed that…
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by Jean Marie Twambaze
Jean-Marie Twambaze is a safari guide at Akengara National Park in Rwanda whose photos showcase the beautiful and diverse wildlife of Rwanda.
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by Godelive Ayinkamiye
I am a young Rwandan woman, born and raised in southern Rwanda. As children, my friends and I enjoyed killing bees, birds, butterflies and other small animals. We cut branches off trees and muddied fresh…
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by Georgia Woodroffe
The Long Run is a nonprofit organization that supports a global community of nature-based tourism destinations committed to achieving the highest level of sustainable business practice.
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by Kiliii Yuyan
In April 2017, Saira Ka’apor was found stabbed to death in a logging town in the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Saira was a member of the Ka’apor Forest Guard, an Indigenous group that patrols their territory…
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by Niyonkuru (Chris) Benjamin
Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills, and many of those hills are found in designated protected areas or parks. Among the forests, each area has unique animals, including mountain gorillas,…
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