![Saving Endangered Species: Behind the Scenes at CITES CoP18](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Saving Endangered Species/7.3abaab92.png)
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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by Paula Pebsworth
Chimpanzees live primarily in large intact forests dotted across Equatorial Africa and, out of all other animal species, are considered our closest living relatives.
Read more![Fighting for Survival: Lifting Up Indigenous Voices](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Fighting for Survival/Thumbnail.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Indigenous peoples play a crucial role in protecting and advocating for global biodiversity. According to the United Nations, there are 370 million Indigenous peoples around the world — almost 5 percent…
Read more![Giraffes Await the World's Protection](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Giraffes Await/Thumbnail.80cd3c3b.jpg)
by Rina Herzl
Picture an animal enrobed in a fiery, jigsaw-patterned coat, a creature of such majestic height that it towers amongst the trees. As your eyes make their way up its long neck that appears to defy gravity,…
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…
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![Gorilla Tourism: Mountain Gorillas Up Close](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Gorilla Tourism/Gorilla%20thumb.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
The mountain gorilla is classified as critically endangered on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. There are only two places to see the world’s remaining…
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![Brilliant Baboons](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Pebsworth/Photo_2.7603d9d1.jpg)
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![Standing up for the Baboons: Primatologist Paula Pebsworth](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Pebsworth/Photo_4.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Voices for Biodiversity became aware of Pebsworth’s work when she was doing her field research in South Africa. Voices for Biodiversity’s founder, Dr. Tara Waters Lumpkin, and filmmaker…
Read more![Saving the African Elephants](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/08/45.scan34-199x300.46980fe9.jpg)
by Shraddha Chakradhar
2011 marked the worst year for elephant poaching and illegal ivory trading since the height of the trade in the 1980s, according to the UK-based Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA). Following this…
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