![Protecting the Arctic Refuge: Gwich’in People Defend the Sacred](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Protecting the Arctic Refuge/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Debra Denker
It’s obvious that something is very wrong with the land before our plane even lands in Fort Yukon, Alaska, known to its indigenous Gwich’in inhabitants as Gwich’in Zhee.
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by Nejma Belarbi
Terralingua is an international nonprofit organization devoted to protecting and sustaining the biocultural diversity of life, which is the diversity of life in nature, culture and languages. All three…
Read more![My Life for the Land](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/My Life for the Land/Thumbnail.eec234ee.jpg)
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…
Read more![Befriending the Wild Ones](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Befriending the Wild Ones/Thumbnail.9442d9f0.jpg)
by C.A. Linklater
Looking through the truck window into a vivid cold winter scene in the subarctic forest of the 1970s Yukon Territory, I was struck by the temerity of the animals that lived and even thrived in such an…
Read more![Things We Don’t See in the Woods](assets/media/images/Galleries/Things We Don't See in the Woods/Thumbnail.jpg)
by Ron Dans
I began my photographic journey around the age of 14, when my parents gave me a 120 Yashika camera. I was fascinated to see the upside-down image on the ground glass, and even more astounded when the prints…
Read more![Life as a Scientific Illustrator](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Life as a Scientific Illustrator/LMundy_Owls-400x400.ace03f03.jpg)
by Laurel Mundy
I grew up drawing animals. Birds, bugs, whales, my cat, anything you can think of, including animals that didn’t exist. My best friend and I would sit for hours doing nothing else.
Read more![Connecting with Biodiversity Using Macro Photography](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Connecting with Biodiversity/Cicanese%20Thumbnail.58051782.png)
by Matthew Cicanese
In a 2013 article published by American Entomologist, a trio of authors contemplated the importance of macro photography in documenting biodiversity. In their abstract, they summarize: "Digital macrophotography…
Read more![Creating Ice Storms](/assets/image-cache/Ice-Storm-6_Preview-Photo.a05f2e57.jpg)
by Lindsey Rustad
Ice storms are extreme winter weather events that inspire wonder and fear in people who live and work in northern temperate and boreal forests around the world. They are major causes of disturbance in…
Read more![The Matter of Life and Death](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/The Matter of Life and Death/KBrennan_DripLine.ace03f03.jpg)
by Kathleen Brennan
As a lifelong photographer and multi-disciplinary artist, I am repeatedly drawn to the harsh beauty of the elemental transformations that occur in our everyday lives. I have photographed birth, death,…
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