![The Living Boulders of a Faraway Time](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/The Living Boulders/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
We walked among the armored behemoths in total awe, mesmerized by the sands and giant green euphorbia bushes that seemed to be from a primeval time. My wife Marie and I came within 40 feet of a single…
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![Life as a Scientific Illustrator](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Life as a Scientific Illustrator/LMundy_Owls-400x400.ace03f03.jpg)
by Laurel Mundy
I grew up drawing animals. Birds, bugs, whales, my cat, anything you can think of, including animals that didn’t exist. My best friend and I would sit for hours doing nothing else.
Read more![In Search of a Common Wilderness](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/In Search of a Common Wilderness/Hawkins_Water_edit.69b940c5.jpg)
by Dan Hawkins
On the morning of January 19, 2017, I found myself in the Tararua Mountains on New Zealand’s North Island, in a gale. I had been in New Zealand for two months as part of a four-month hiking traverse of…
Read more![How Biodiversity is Helping to Revitalize Coal Country](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Coal Country/FEATURE_photo%203_smith_edit.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Wally Smith
It's a cold November morning as I drive from my home in rural Wise County, Virginia, to the town of Tazewell, some 80 miles away. My journey takes me across the edge of the Virginia coalfields and through…
Read more![Living the Science: Place-Based Education as a Model for Scientific Learning](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Living the Science/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Jacqueline Gerson
“Dip your hand in the water!” I yelled over the crash of whitewater, and then a few seconds later, “Now try it again!”
Read more![Connecting with Biodiversity Using Macro Photography](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Connecting with Biodiversity/Cicanese%20Thumbnail.58051782.png)
by Matthew Cicanese
In a 2013 article published by American Entomologist, a trio of authors contemplated the importance of macro photography in documenting biodiversity. In their abstract, they summarize: "Digital macrophotography…
Read more![Too Rare to Wear: Stopping Illegal Trade of Hawksbill Turtle Products](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Too Rare to Wear/Too%20Rare%20To%20Wear.31d79840.png)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Too Rare to Wear campaign brings tourist and conservation groups together to end the trade of illegal tortoiseshell products. Also called turtleshell, this material comes from hawksbill sea turtles,…
Read more![Saving Selfless Shellfish from Sunscreen](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/Saving Selfless Shellfish/Thumbnail.3f14aee3.jpg)
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…
Read more![Meeting Jane Goodall’s Chimps](assets/media/images/Impression/Meeting Jane Goodall's Chimps/chimp_thumbnail.jpg)
by Anne Silver
Dar es Salaam was so hot and dry that my husband, Jim, and I had almost forgotten that rain and cold weather even existed. We were however rudely reminded when we arrived in Kigoma, Tanzania, on our quest…
Read more![The CITES Meeting: A Closer Look](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/Convention on International Trade/Bones_of_Contention_Feature_edited.381804bd.jpg)
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…
Read more![Anthro versus Ecocentric Conservation Perspectives: An Academic Comparison](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Anthro vs Ecocentric Conservation/Child%20in%20a%20stump-400x400.69b940c5.jpg)
by Helen Kopnina
Conservation is most often discussed from two main ethical standpoints: the preservation of natural resources for human use (an anthropocentric position that supports biodiversity protection for the well-being…
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