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by Madison Toonder
Oysters are bivalve mollusks that provide shelter and food for a variety of organisms, all while improving water clarity and quality through filtration. Oyster reefs formed by aggregations of shells are…
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by Alfred Mepukori
My amazing trip all began when the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) announced a global search for 34 international conservationists aged 18 to 25 to attend the first-ever Youth Forum for People…
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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…
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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…
Read more![Navigating Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Kalahari Desert](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/The Kalahari Peoples Fund/san3-Thumb.a1d5d6b3.jpg)
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…
Read more![Learning at the E.O. Wilson Biophilia Center](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Learning at the E O/LIFT-20160423-Biophilia-5K-TR-0033.ace03f03.jpg)
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…
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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…
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