![Red Wolves: Hanging in the Balance](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Red Wolves/Thumbnail.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Malee Baker Oot
Gravel crackles under my tires and horseflies ping off the windows as I slow to a stop beside a mound of black bear scat, near the northeastern edge of North Carolina’s 152,000-acre Alligator River National…
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by Joe Gray
Be you a beetle enthusiast who’s inseparable from your sweeping net, a petal-counting wildflower aficionado, or a lichen lover prone to presenting (with nose to the ground) their posterior anteriorly,…
Read more![Searching Forgotten Wetlands for the Mountain Chorus Frog](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Searching Forgotten/Thumbnail.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Wally Smith
Those three words are on my mind as I slosh around in a wetland behind the lodge at Virginia's Breaks Interstate Park. The pool isn't much, taking up no more than thirty square feet and its water only…
Read more![Livable Shorelines](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Livable Shorelines/Thumbnail.381804bd.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Choctawhatchee Bay encompasses a large estuary along the Florida Panhandle, a watershed that stretches across Okaloosa, Walton, Washington and Holmes Counties before extending into Alabama.
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by Kira Johnson
Three years ago, beekeeper Moira O’Hanlon was taking care of her mom, who had advanced dementia. Her mother’s skin was in really bad shape but her doctors kept prescribing chemical-laden lotions that didn’t…
Read more![Saving Endangered Species: Behind the Scenes at CITES CoP18](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Saving Endangered Species/7.3abaab92.png)
by Fred Bercovitch
Every three years, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Conference of the Parties (CITES CoP) meets to deliberate the best tactics to adopt for saving species…
Read more![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 Elke Duerr
Riding my bike on a dirt road in Montana, I was being mindful of the original inhabitants of this relatively intact stretch of forest. I pedaled slowly, taking in the energy and beauty of the land.
Read more![For the Love of Chimpanzees](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/For the Love of Chimpanzees/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Paula Pebsworth
Chimpanzees live primarily in large intact forests dotted across Equatorial Africa and, out of all other animal species, are considered our closest living relatives.
Read more![Restoring Habitat in Indonesian Borneo](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Restoring Habitat/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Farquhar Stirling
Farquhar Stirling is a retired corporate executive who lives in Indonesia. He is also a volunteer with the Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF), an NGO working in habitat restoration in Kalimantan…
Read more![Leave Murder to a Flock of Crows](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Leave Murder/Thumbnail.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Jacquelyn VanEyll
It was a warm summer day on an island off the east coast of Florida. Fishing was not only part of some people’s livelihood, but a picturesque part of the culture in the small town where I lived. Everyone…
Read more![Protecting the World’s Giraffes](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Protecting the World's Giraffes/Thumbnail.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Fred Bercovitch
When I was hired to head the San Diego Zoo’s Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES) Division of Behavior about 20 years ago, my initial research focused on koalas, African wild dogs and giraffes.
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