![My life in the Naimina Enkiyio Forest, Part 2](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Naimina/Photo_4.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Alfred Mepukori
Continue on the journey through the forests of East Africa with Maasai warrior Alfred Mepukori, who tells readers about growing up Maasai, why elephants matter, and survival in the Naimina Enkiyio Forest.
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by Alfred Mepukori
The area of land popularly known as Loita lies in southern Kenya between the Ngurman-Magadi escarpment and the Maasai Mara National Game Reserve. It covers an area of 1,700 km2 within the Loita Division…
Read more![The Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Kgalagadi/springbuck%20thumb.1d00087f.jpg)
by Clare Helen Galloway
Geologist and journalist Clare Galloway, whose artwork illustrates the stark beauty of life in southern Africa, lives on a game farm outside Okahanja, Namibia. Join her as she takes the reader on a journey…
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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![Films for Kids: Wild and Scenic Film Festival](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Youth/KIds Film/FilmsforKids_EricSchlenker-Goodrich400x400.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
Formed in 1993 in Eugene, Oregon, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) states its mission as using “the power of the law to defend and protect the American West’s treasured landscapes, iconic wildlife…
Read more![Marching to Save the Elephant on October 4](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/In the Wild Plains/Christo_elephant9.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
The upcoming International March for Elephants will be held October 4, 2013, across three continents and 13 cities, from Melbourne to Rome, from Cape Town to New York, and is inspired by the David Sheldrick…
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![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![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…
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by Anne Silver
Upon reaching the Malawi/Tanzanian border, my Blackberry jumped to life with a request to visit a potential site for a new Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) and to stop by to say “hi” to some current ones. My…
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by Debra Denker
In the short film Brilliant Baboons, which premiered earlier this month at the Taos Shortz Film Festival, Pebsworth sits down with Izilwane to talk about her research into geophagy –…
Read more![Lleva una Llama a Almorzar](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Lleva una llama/Photo_2.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Teresa Dovalpage
Take a Llama to Lunch (Lleva una Llama a Almorzar) es una de las excursiones que ofrece Wild Earth Llama Adventures, una compañía que lleva veinte años haciendo senderismo con llamas en Nuevo México. La…
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