![Zoos: Confinement or Conservation?](/assets/image-cache/Lead%20Image_Interaction.a05f2e57.jpg)
by Nathan Woosley
Four years ago, I was living with a couple of friends in Shenyang, Northeast China. We spent a lot of our time exploring old ruins, knockoff shops and other tourist traps throughout the industrial city.…
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by Jonathan Whittle-Utter
Returning to the question at hand—why a massage therapist would be interested in researching human-elephant communication? The answer relates to the primacy of touch. Touch is the primal arena of connection…
Read more![Touched by an Elephant, Part 2](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Touched by an Elephant/Elephant%20Touch%20Thumb%202.1900ee35.jpg)
by Jonathan Whittle-Utter
The sanctuary rests in an open jungle valley in the remote Mondulkiri province of Northeast Cambodia. Like the rest of the country, Mondulkiri is undergoing rampant deforestation, a tremendous threat to…
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by Jonathan Whittle-Utter
About three years ago I decided pursue a PhD in somatic psychology. I'd spent the last few years establishing a healthy massage therapy practice in Los Angeles, and although the bodywork was rewarding…
Read more![Drought in the Southwest](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Drought in the Southwest/Brennan%20Gallery-Thumb.abec955d.jpg)
by Kathleen Brennan
Cycles of wet and dry have occurred for as long as the planet has been revolving around the sun, since dinosaurs roamed the shores of an inland sea that now makes up the Raton-Clayton volcanic field in…
Read more![Clean Stoves and Healthy Forests](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Clean Burning Stoves Yak Dung/Himalyan%20Stove_Thumb.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Household Air Pollution (HAP) affects more than three billion people — almost half of the world’s population. The U.S.-based non-profit The Himalayan Stove Project, founded by George Basch, provides free,…
Read more![Illegal Trade Reveals Unknown Orchids](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Illegal Trade Reveals Unknown Orchid/Orchid_Thumb.e6fb0425.jpg)
by Hannah Watson
Commercial trade of wild-collected plants is restricted in most countries. Orchids, in particular, are often subject to intensive harvesting as medicinal and ornamental plants, even though the international…
Read more![Forecasting a Future for Cheetahs](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Forecasting a Future for Cheetahs/Cheetah-1.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Ecoreporter Sarah Abdelrahim interviews Dr. Laurie Marker of the nonprofit, A Future for Cheetahs, to gain insight on the global cheetah population, the key drivers in their decline, and recent successes…
Read more![Critical Time for Elephants in the Wild](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Critical Time for Elephants/Photo_2.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Patty Shenker
In Africa, an elephant is killed every 15 minutes for his/her ivory. A normal day in countries like Rwanda or Zimbabwe ends up with about 96 elephants killed, all illegally, as the international trade…
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![Outsider Nature Art Photography](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/J Madison Rink/eye%20of%20heart.17394b91.jpg)
by j. Madison Rink
If Rock|Stone speaks – what does it say? These fine-art, photographic, naturally-sculpted works, which underscore the magic and fluidity of perception, were chosen for inclusion in a pioneering 2010 publication.…
Read more![Of Palm Oil and Extinction](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/palm%20oil%20thumb.69b940c5.jpg)
by Robert Hii
You know the old question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a noise? I’m not quite sure why that question came to mind when news came out of the extinction of Dipterocarpus…
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