![Elephant Depression](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Poetry/Elephant Depression/Thumbnail.d7bf5e88.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
"Depression is biological," The experts say. "Feel good! Take Prozac,
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by Tara Waters Lumpkin
In old Africa: Dust stirred by bare feet and lions’ paws . . . Gone now.
Read more![The Mighty Giraffe](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/The Mighty Giraffe/Thumbnail.3f14aee3.jpg)
by Lysander Christo
Silent steps of evolution, highest height of all the world. Of all the world a graceful trot, so fast, yet so slow through the savannah, where the elephants trumpet and blow.
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by Debra Denker
As I open my garden gate on an uncharacteristically sultry Southwest summer afternoon, I hear a growl, a thump and then scrabbling in the Russian olive tree above me. I round the corner and come face to…
Read more![Meeting with an Elephant](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Meeting with an Elephant/Thumbnail.32214753.jpg)
by Lysander Christo
In this unprincipled time of elephant carnage in the name of ivory, my wife, son and I have come to view elephants as being on equal footing, searching for them with a guide on conservation lands.
Read more![The Living Boulders of a Faraway Time](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/The Living Boulders/Thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson
We walked among the armored behemoths in total awe, mesmerized by the sands and giant green euphorbia bushes that seemed to be from a primeval time. My wife Marie and I came within 40 feet of a single…
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![Hunting in National Parks in Australia](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Hunting Australia/Photo_1_Burning_Palms_Beach_Royal_NP.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Anne Kreller
Like other former British colonies, Australia has been part of the long international movement to create national parks. The first in Australia was created in 1879, and by 1967, the NSW Government had…
Read more![Wolf Culling Enacted by Government](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/02/Wolves.df55dde7.jpg)
by Kathryn Pardo
WASHINGTON, DC—The Idaho Department of Fish and Game plans to implement aerial hunting of wolves this year, using federal funds to support the culling. The ultimate goal of this plan is not to effectively…
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