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What We Can Learn about Biophilia from Bonobos
What We Can Learn about Biophilia from Bonobos

by Vanessa Woods

Our closest living relatives are the great apes, which include gorillas, orangutans, chimpanzees, and bonobos.

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- Jul 28, 2024
Boa Gente Creates Sustainable Waste Solutions in Mozambique
Boa Gente Creates Sustainable Waste Solutions in Mozambique

by Milan Burnett

Rapid urbanization and population growth over the last century has placed extensive strain on the environment and human health as governments have failed to sustainably address the rise in domestic waste…

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- May 19, 2024
Beaver Believers: Reintroducing Beavers to Britain
Beaver Believers: Reintroducing Beavers to Britain

by James Beiny

The industrious and charismatic beaver is slowly being reintroduced into Britain following an absence of around 400 years.

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- Apr 22, 2024
One Loggerhead Turtle’s 30-Year Journey
One Loggerhead Turtle’s 30-Year Journey

by Devin Reese

I got my feet wet in fieldwork as an intern for the Conservancy of Southwest Florida in the 1980s. Literally. My feet got wet when my supervisor, biologist Dave Addison, unflappably led me through the…

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- Nov 07, 2021
Isolation Is Slow Torture:  A Macaw Conservationist in Costa Rica
Isolation Is Slow Torture: A Macaw Conservationist in Costa Rica

by Merlin Pratsch

“In the minutes before sunrise on the edge of the Corcovado, a troop of howler monkeys announces the twilight transition from night to day, reminding us that communication is the key to successful communities…

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- May 20, 2021
Seeking Solace on Horseback: Riding Keeps Me Sane During Pandemic
Seeking Solace on Horseback: Riding Keeps Me Sane During Pandemic

by Debra Denker

On the first day of autumn, I’m riding through a changing forest — tall, deep green ponderosas interspersed with the butter-gold of aspens, and shrubs ranging from pale crimson to deep russet to coral…

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- Dec 23, 2020
Livable Shorelines
Livable Shorelines

by Erika Zambello

Choctawhatchee Bay encompasses a large estuary along the Florida Panhandle, a watershed that stretches across Okaloosa, Walton, Washington and Holmes Counties before extending into Alabama.

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- Oct 23, 2019
Saving Endangered Species: Behind the Scenes at CITES CoP18
Saving Endangered Species: Behind the Scenes at CITES CoP18

by Fred Bercovitch

Every three years, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora Conference of the Parties (CITES CoP) meets to deliberate the best tactics to adopt for saving species…

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- Sep 18, 2019
Fighting for the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas
Fighting for the Rights of Southern Resident Orcas

by Sean Butler, Will Falk

On December 18, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Wild Fish Conservancy threatenedthe Trump administration with a lawsuit under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) for allowing salmon fisheries…

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- Apr 03, 2019
The Worlds Within Us
The Worlds Within Us

by Andrew Flachs, Joseph Orkin

Biodiversity builds resilient ecosystems. While our imaginations are stirred by charismatic animals and plants, who help attach a face to conservation and ground our attention, they only make up a fraction…

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- Nov 21, 2018
How Do Dams Fall? Conversations with the Colorado River
How Do Dams Fall? Conversations with the Colorado River

by Will Falk

When I joined Colorado River Ecosystem v. Colorado, the first-ever federal lawsuit to seek personhood and the rights of nature for a major ecosystem, my intentions were not completely sincere. The truth…

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- Sep 05, 2018
Sunny Day Flooding
Sunny Day Flooding

by Melissa Papp

Flooding and storm surges are dangerous threats that became all too real for the entire state of Florida when Hurricane Irma struck on September 10, 2017. Living on the west coast of Florida, I was frantically…

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- Jun 20, 2018

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