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by Alyssa Vinluan
After a 5:30 a.m. wake-up call and a two-hour boat ride with Roctopus Dive, I could finally see the pinnacle of Sail Rock, considered by many as the best dive site in the Gulf of Thailand. The water looked…
Read more![The Last Unicorn: William deBuy's Search for the Elusive Saola](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/The Last Unicorn/soala.dc5991f3.jpg)
by Zoe Krasney, Casey Johnson
The Last Unicorn taps into a primal human instinct — the search for pure and innocent beauty. This quest has captured our attention for hundreds of years, and is perhaps the reason unicorns are ubiquitous…
Read more![Illegal Trade Reveals Unknown Orchids](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Illegal Trade Reveals Unknown Orchid/Orchid_Thumb.e6fb0425.jpg)
by Hannah Watson
Commercial trade of wild-collected plants is restricted in most countries. Orchids, in particular, are often subject to intensive harvesting as medicinal and ornamental plants, even though the international…
Read more![Critical Time for Elephants in the Wild](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Critical Time for Elephants/Photo_2.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Patty Shenker
In Africa, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for his/her ivory. A normal day in countries like Rwanda or Zimbabwe ends up with about 96 elephants killed, all illegally, as the international trade…
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