![Peaceful Coexistence: Snow Leopards and Humans Share Pakistan’s Mountains](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Peaceful Coexistence With Snow Leopards/FeaturePhotoLeopard400x400.b2569926.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Confession: I am a lifelong lover of snow leopards. So, a couple of months ago, when I was sick of politics, I was happy to follow a Facebook-suggested link to Snow Leopard Trust. I eagerly read their…
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by Jaime Gordon
In 1975, Hitchcock was one of several graduate students who traveled to the Kalahari Desert region of Botswana to undertake interdisciplinary anthropological research. When the group arrived in the northeastern…
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by Paul Arthur
“I can’t believe I held a snake!” “The longleaf pine trees are awesome.” “I can’t wait to come back!”
Read more![An Interview with Wendee Nicole, Founder & Director of the Redemption Song Foundation](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/An Interview with Wendee Nicole/PREVIEWPHOTObeck1532.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda is one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. It is home to half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas, several other primates, 400 species…
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by Jennifer Calkins
When I first started working on an article for World Pangolin Day (which takes place every third Saturday of February), I did not realize how few people even knew pangolins existed. As an evolutionary…
Read more![Review of Orangutan: A Day in the Rainforest Canopy](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Review of Orangutan: A Day in the Rainforest Canopy/IMG%201%20Orangutan%20Book%20Cover.69b940c5.jpg)
by Emily Baumbach
The Malay word orangutan translates as “person of the forest,” and the orangutans that once thrived in the wooded areas of the rainforest in Sumatra and Borneo have reached record low population levels.…
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
When Mindy Budgor, a prospective MBA student, decided to go to Kenya as a volunteer to build a school for the Maasai, she had no idea where this choice would ultimately lead her. As Mindy helped build…
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by Sarah Abdelrahim
“Warrior Princess: My Quest to Become the First Female Maasai Warrior” was either adored or berated, depending on the audience. Women’s magazines loved the book. Others disliked it, claiming no white woman…
Read more![For the Wolves, For the Land](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/For the Wolves, For the Land 1/WolfThumb_Duerr.1900ee35.jpg)
by Zoe Krasney
Eco-reporter Zoe Krasney recently interviewed filmmaker and photographer Elke Duerr after she founded the Web of Life Foundation (WOLF), which is devoted to education and outreach to communities in close…
Read more![Clean Stoves and Healthy Forests](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Clean Burning Stoves Yak Dung/Himalyan%20Stove_Thumb.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Household Air Pollution (HAP) affects more than three billion people — almost half of the world’s population. The U.S.-based non-profit The Himalayan Stove Project, founded by George Basch, provides free,…
Read more![Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot/Over_photo%205.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Kevin McCarthy
Environmentalists are often motivated by the visceral – the prospect of a loved one being deprived of some glorious natural phenomenon, for example, or a haunting photograph that conveys the scale of destruction…
Read more![A Maasai Perspective: Salaton Ole Ntutu](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Salaton Interview/Salaton%20Thumb.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Chief Salaton Ole Ntutu lives in Kenya, where he runs a tourist camp and cultural center. Last year, Salaton visited the United States for a month to fundraise and raise awareness about his camp. During…
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