![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…
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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![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.
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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.
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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![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…
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by Erika Zambello
Made up of over 6,000 acres along the coast of Alabama, the Weeks Bay National Estuarine Research is one of 28 sites around the country that are “protected for long-term research, water-quality monitoring,…
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![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![Audubon’s Nebraska Crane Festival](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/Audubon Crane/cranes_thumb.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Emily Baumbach
During four to six weeks from the beginning of March and into mid-April, nearly half a million Sandhill Cranes, roughly 80% of the world population, arrive in south-central Nebraska.
Read more![Films for Kids: Wild and Scenic Film Festival](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Youth/KIds Film/FilmsforKids_EricSchlenker-Goodrich400x400.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
Formed in 1993 in Eugene, Oregon, the Western Environmental Law Center (WELC) states its mission as using “the power of the law to defend and protect the American West’s treasured landscapes, iconic wildlife…
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