![Audubon’s Nebraska Crane Festival](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/Audubon Crane/cranes_thumb.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Emily Baumbach
During four to six weeks from the beginning of March and into mid-April, nearly half a million Sandhill Cranes, roughly 80% of the world population, arrive in south-central Nebraska.
Read more![Bringing Light to the Darkness](/assets/image-cache/images/Dispatches/Bringing Light to the Darkness/Photo%203.79364344.jpg)
by Brad Nahill
In May 2013, young and ambitious conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval was abducted, beaten, and brutally murdered while protecting leatherback turtle nests on a beach on Costa Rica’s Atlantic coast. The…
Read more![The Bison of Yellowstone National Park](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Bison of Yellowstone/Bison.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Yellowstone National Park is America’s oldest national park. It is also home to many large mammals, including elk, wolves, moose, bears and bison, the charismatic megafauna of the American West. But the…
Read more![Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil](/assets/image-cache/image-cache/images/108x81/Orangutan.31b04f11.jpg)
by Kathryn Pardo
Recently, thanks in part to the work of Voices for Biodiversity, monstrous, forest-chomping companies like Asia Pulp and Paper and their relatives in the palm oil industry, Golden Agri Resources, both…
Read more![The Bones of Extinction at the Ivory Crush](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/The Bones of Extinction/Bones_of_Extinction_Feature.3f14aee3.jpg)
by Lysander Christo
In November, 2013, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service stood vigil over an unprecedented event in the United States: the crushing of six tons of illegal ivory seized from poachers and smugglers. At the…
Read more![Sculpting Nature: Memories in Stone](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Sculpting Wildlife/IMG_2080.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Zoe Stoenner
Statues are ubiquitous; they stand watch in front of government buildings, adorn city towers, and are monuments to what we humans hold in high esteem. While many sculptures are a testament to our history…
Read more![Unnatural in Nature](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Unnatural in Nature/5.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Ross Honig
In today’s society, so many of us are unaware of the human footprint we leave on this planet. Throughout this photo essay, American University student Ross Honig tries to create simple snapshots of the…
Read more![Backyard Wildlife](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Youth/Backyard/Squirrel.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Keiran Snow Dawson
Join American University student Keiran Snow-Dawson as he goes in search of the wildlife that lives in his own backyard. In this photo essay, he illustrates that even in urban areas, wildlife can be abundant.…
Read more![Pope Francis: Friend to the Environment](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/09/8581037800_891e82ba2b.84cdda71.jpg)
by Danielle Vilaplana
On July 27, Pope Francis addressed an audience of Brazilian bishops and social and political elites and touched upon several topics, including the environmental crisis in the Amazon Basin. In his speech,…
Read more![Desert Lion Tourism](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Desert Lion Tourism/Desert_Lion_Feature.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Clare Helen Galloway
I attended a presentation last night by Dr. Flip Stander, who is the leading lion expert in Namibia. It was a fascinating look at the last 15 years of his life spent with the desert lions in the Kaokoveld…
Read more![Fabricación de Abono Orgánico en Mt. Solar](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Mt Solar/photo_5.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Susan Kinne
Para evitar la deforestación por parte de la expansión agrícola y restaurar el suelo en esta región, notoria por tener una tasa de deforestación de las más altas en el mundo y un suelo severamente degradado…
Read more![Wild and Scenic Film Festival, Taos, NM](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/05/ContentImage-1338-260200-8245351490_2746ef972c-150x150.84cdda71.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
The Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) produces an annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival, which travels from venue to venue each year. One place it comes to is the little town of Taos, New Mexico, home…
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