![For the Love of Chimpanzees](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/For the Love of Chimpanzees/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
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![Guarding Lions](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Guarding Lions/Thumbnail.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Africa’s lion population has decreased by an estimated 50 percent in the last 50 years. Due to habitat loss, depletion of wild prey, poor livestock management and conflict with humans, it is believed that…
Read more![Biodiversity Awareness: A Story of Hope](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Biodiversity Awareness/Thumbnail.4dad7336.jpg)
by Godelive Ayinkamiye
I am a young Rwandan woman, born and raised in southern Rwanda. As children, my friends and I enjoyed killing bees, birds, butterflies and other small animals. We cut branches off trees and muddied fresh…
Read more![The Long Run](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/The Long Run/Thumbnail.4dad7336.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Long Run is a nonprofit organization that supports a global community of nature-based tourism destinations committed to achieving the highest level of sustainable business practice.
Read more![Learning about Conservation in Rwanda](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Learning about Conservation /20.9442d9f0.jpg)
by Niyonkuru (Chris) Benjamin
Rwanda is known as the country of a thousand hills, and many of those hills are found in designated protected areas or parks. Among the forests, each area has unique animals, including mountain gorillas,…
Read more![Scottish Wildcats: The Endangered Feline of Britain](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Scottish Wildcats/Thumbnail.381804bd.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The “British Tiger,” with dense fur and bewitching eyes, is at the heart of many British folk stories and traditions. Hundreds of years ago their ferocity, untamable nature, and haunting mating calls infiltrated…
Read more![Biodiversity Questions in School Gardens](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Biodiversity Questions/Thumbnail.1e0c446b.jpg)
by Erika Hansen
Find a bug (and draw it). Find plants that are ingredients in pizza sauce; in toothpaste; in salsa. Find two living and two nonliving things.
Read more![Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Grand Bay National Estuarine/Grand%2025-400x400.abec955d.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Established in 1999, the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GB NERR) now stretches across 18,000 acres. In addition to the estuary’s salt marshes, the reserve also covers rare pine savannas,…
Read more![Peru’s Chaparrí Conservation Area: A Wildlife Reserve in the Tumbesian Dry Forests](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Perus Chaparrí Conservation Area/Chaparri%20entrance-400x400.80cd3c3b.jpg)
by Maddie Southard
Named for the mountain that dominates the landscape, the Chaparrí Conservation Area is located about 50 miles east of the Pacific coast in northern Peru.
Read more![Living the Science: Place-Based Education as a Model for Scientific Learning](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Living the Science/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Jacqueline Gerson
“Dip your hand in the water!” I yelled over the crash of whitewater, and then a few seconds later, “Now try it again!”
Read more![Too Rare to Wear: Stopping Illegal Trade of Hawksbill Turtle Products](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/Too Rare to Wear/Too%20Rare%20To%20Wear.31d79840.png)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Too Rare to Wear campaign brings tourist and conservation groups together to end the trade of illegal tortoiseshell products. Also called turtleshell, this material comes from hawksbill sea turtles,…
Read more![Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Reserve/gtm%20gal_FEATURE-400x400.abec955d.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
I disembarked at Guana Tolomato Matanzas National Estuarine Research Reserve (mercifully abbreviated to GTM NERR) with a group of practitioners, researchers and ecologists from around the world. The group…
Read more