![Elephant Depression](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/Elephant Depression/Thumbnail.d7bf5e88.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
"Depression is biological," The experts say. "Feel good! Take Prozac,
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
In old Africa: Dust stirred by bare feet and lions’ paws . . . Gone now.
Read more![F. Malby-Anthony’s Memoir of Conservation and Inspiration](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Memoir of Conservation/Thumbnail.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Françoise Malby-Anthony and her husband, best-selling author Lawrence Anthony, ran the Thula Thula game reserve in South Africa together until he suddenly passed away in 2012.
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by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
In 1925, Carl Jung made a five-month safari to East Africa that would transform his understanding of humanity and the deeper aspects of the human psyche.
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by Lysander Christo
In this unprincipled time of elephant carnage in the name of ivory, my wife, son and I have come to view elephants as being on equal footing, searching for them with a guide on conservation lands.
Read more![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![Searching for Fish in Cameroon](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Searching for Fish/Boat_20-Thumbnail-Edited.1e0c446b.jpg)
by Joe Cutler
Crowds of people funneled past me as I unloaded my sampling equipment from the back of a taxi in Cameroon’s Kumba Market. The driver helped me pull my gear from the trunk: a huge backpack, a sack of gillnets,…
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…
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
It has been almost eight years since the conservation-media magazine Voices for Biodiversity was born. The changes that have occurred over these years, both for the world and for Voices for Biodiversity,…
Read more![Navigating Human-Wildlife Conflict in the Kalahari Desert](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/The Kalahari Peoples Fund/san3-Thumb.a1d5d6b3.jpg)
by Jaime Gordon
In 1975, Hitchcock was one of several graduate students who traveled to the Kalahari Desert region of Botswana to undertake interdisciplinary anthropological research. When the group arrived in the northeastern…
Read more![Community Mapping in Gabon](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Community Mapping/CommunityMapping-400x400.1900ee35.jpg)
by Nina Hamilton
I came to Gabon to study how communities use and value their forest resources, what they see is threatening their resources and why all of that might differ across the landscape. All of the information…
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