![The Economic Value of Nature](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Economic Value of Nature/water.e6fb0425.jpg)
by Massimiliano Morelli
In recent years there has been an effort to determine the economic value of nature by national governments and international committees. Although this utilitarian view applied to the complexity of nature…
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![Las Nutrias de Río](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Las Nutrias/Las%20Nutrias_Feature.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Teresa Dovalpage
La nutria de río (Lontra canadensis) es un mamífero semi acuático grande y fuerte, que pertenece a la familia Weasal. Son muy sociables, juguetonas y tienen una energía aparentemente ilimitada, así que…
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…
Read more![Dead or Alive: The Promise of Tourism for Shark Conservation](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/05/HHshark_Cocos_GeorgeDuffield.84cdda71.jpg)
by Brad Nahill
When many people hear the words shark and tourism in the same sentence, the first thing they think of is how to avoid these creatures of the deep. The second thing is the ubiquitous image of a small diver…
Read more![Brilliant Baboons Screened at Taos Shortz Film Festival](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/04/Prayer%20Flags.1d00087f.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
For the second year in a row, Izilwane—Voices for Biodiversity had one of its films accepted by the Taos Shortz Film Festival, a growing film festival that focuses specifically on films shorter than 28…
Read more![Conservation Biology and Artistic Expression](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/03/IMG_5478-438x400.84cdda71.jpg)
by Nezam Ardalan
The decision to pursue conservation biology came after an incredible and intense 14 months of traveling through South America. There was no one moment or epiphany, no strike of clarity, just a slow and…
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