![An Interview with Senator Mike Phillips](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Senator Mike Phillips/Thumbnail.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Kira Johnson
One of the most conservation-minded politicians currently serving in the United States is a Democratic state senator from Montana, Mike Phillips.
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by Reza Visual Academy
Many Syrian refugees, fleeing the war in their home country, are living in Kawergosk Camp near the city of Erbil in Iraqi Kurdistan.
Read more![An Interview with Frans de Waal](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/An Interview with Frans de Waal/Thumbnail.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by John Richardson
In November 2017, world-renowned primatologist, ethologist and author of numerous books Frans de Waal was interviewed by John Richardson, the founding Executive Director of the Blackstone Ranch Institute.
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by Kira Johnson
I used to be involved in a team-taught course at Boston University called Biodiversity: Causes and Consequences. I gave two lectures: one on the fossil evidence of biodiversity and another on the history…
Read more![Book Review: Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals/Dodo-Photo-350x350.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Erika Zambello, Kira Johnson
As individuals who work in the environmental field and whose hobbies involve being outdoors, we had heard of some of the extinct species featured in Brief Eulogies for Lost Animals by Daniel Hudon before…
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by Lysander Christo
Silent steps of evolution, highest height of all the world. Of all the world a graceful trot, so fast, yet so slow through the savannah, where the elephants trumpet and blow.
Read more![Everyday Extinction: Q&A with Sean Gallagher](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Everyday Extinction/Thumbnail.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Kira Johnson
As extinction quietly steals earth’s species, photographer and filmmaker Sean Gallagher is tapping into the popularity of social media to bring global attention to the crisis.
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by John Richardson
Many readers of Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? written by renowned Dutch primatologist and ethologist Franz de Waal would be intrigued but perhaps not surprised to learn that chimpanzees…
Read more![Meeting with an Elephant](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Meeting with an Elephant/Thumbnail.32214753.jpg)
by Lysander Christo
In this unprincipled time of elephant carnage in the name of ivory, my wife, son and I have come to view elephants as being on equal footing, searching for them with a guide on conservation lands.
Read more![The Alternative of Real Ecology: A Review](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/The Alternative of Real Ecology/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Kveldulf Gunnar Larsson offers an important critique of the modern environmental movement and a stark assessment of what people are doing to the planet.
Read more![Biodiversity Questions in School Gardens](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Biodiversity Questions/Thumbnail.1e0c446b.jpg)
by Erika Hansen
Find a bug (and draw it). Find plants that are ingredients in pizza sauce; in toothpaste; in salsa. Find two living and two nonliving things.
Read more![The Animals’ Agenda: An Important Look at Human Relationships with Other Animals](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/The Animals Agenda/cow_thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Humans interact with other animals in a number of ways. When we think about other animals, we might think about our pet dogs, the squirrels we see in our backyards or the giraffes we visit at the zoo.…
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