![Letter from the President](/assets/image-cache/media/VFB_Logo-400x400.f542198e.png)
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![I Dream of Bison](/assets/image-cache/images/Impressions/Dream of Bison/Bison%20Cow%20With%20Golden%20Light-400x435.8ef4999f.jpg)
by Elke Duerr
I grew up on an organic farm in Germany. By the time I was born, we Germans had already wiped out our large mammals; the wisent (German bison), wolf, bear, lynx, wild cats, auroxen, moose and elk were…
Read more![The Return of Eastern Elk](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Return of Eastern Elk/elk_feature-400x400.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Erika Zambello, Wally Smith
“Elk are not the first animals that come to mind when thinking of native Appalachian wildlife, but the species was a common sight in these hills prior to European settlement,” writes Dr. Walter Smith in…
Read more![Ramifications of the Dakota Access Pipeline](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Ramifications Of Dakota Pipeline/DAPL-Feature-400x341.e6fb0425.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
The Dakota Access Pipeline has caused a social media and news firestorm. Over just a few days, more than one million people across the country and the world symbolically “checked in” to Standing Rock to…
Read more![Conservation Partnerships Protect Species at Eglin Air Force Base](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Protect Species At Eglin AF Base/PloverChick-400x400.dc5991f3.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Eglin Air Force Base (Eglin AFB) on the Florida Panhandle does more than fulfill its military mission. In its over 700 square miles of territory, base staff and federal agents oversee the management of…
Read more![Peaceful Coexistence: Snow Leopards and Humans Share Pakistan’s Mountains](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Peaceful Coexistence With Snow Leopards/FeaturePhotoLeopard400x400.b2569926.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Confession: I am a lifelong lover of snow leopards. So, a couple of months ago, when I was sick of politics, I was happy to follow a Facebook-suggested link to Snow Leopard Trust. I eagerly read their…
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![Loktak Lake: The World’s Only Floating Lake](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Loktak Lake: The World's Only Floating Lake/LoktakLake-575x500.a1d5d6b3.jpg)
by Mohit Raj
Picture a lake where massive landmasses covered in shaggy green vegetation naturally generate over its surface. They have no base, yet still become so dense that they can bear not only the load of occupants,…
Read more![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.…
Read more![Look Deep Into Nature](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Look Deeper into Nature/Home%20page%20Thumb.2b9b4b28.jpg)
by Lourens Durand
The strident call of the Woodland Kingfisher proclaims the arrival of spring in South Africa, and the return of the bird from its winter visit to the north. Whilst enjoying a morning walk, we noticed a…
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![Bringing Light to the Darkness](/assets/image-cache/images/Dispatches/Bringing Light to the Darkness/Photo%203.79364344.jpg)
by Brad Nahill
In May 2013, young and ambitious conservationist Jairo Mora Sandoval was abducted, beaten, and brutally murdered while protecting leatherback turtle nests on a beach on Costa Rica’s Atlantic coast. The…
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