![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…
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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![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.
Read more![Hunting and Fishing in Lake Atitlán / La Caza y La Pesca en el Lago de Atitlán](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Hunting and Fishing in Lake Atitlan/Thumbnail.08f023c6.png)
by Ingrid Maribel Xingo Ajanel
This video is the third in a series published through collaboration with Unlocking Silent Histories.
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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![The Wonders of Nature (Las Maravillas de la Naturaleza)](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Las Maravillas/Thumbnail.32214753.jpg)
by Mirna Churunel Morales, Ana Maria Churunel Morales, Unlocking Silent Histories
In 2018, Voices for Biodiversity began collaborating with Unlocking Silent Histories, an organization that, through an engaged critical and creative process, inspires Indigenous youth to create documentary…
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…
Read more![Donald Trump Is an Animal](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Donald Trump Is an Animal/Thumbnail_.0d8f0bfe.jpg)
by Fred Bercovitch
How do we know this? Because he is a person! When the president lambasts violent criminal gangs and immigrants by proclaiming “These aren’t people. They are animals,” he is displaying his ignorance of…
Read more![Brave Friends and River Otters](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Brave Friends and River Otters/Thumbnail%202.abec955d.jpg)
by Shannon Romeling
The warm New Mexico sun was beating down on us as we hiked along the bright green, grassy banks of the Rio Grande and scrambled over giant jet-black volcanic rocks. We were within a few minutes of our…
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