![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.
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by Andrew Flachs
Most commercial agriculture around the world comes in the form of monocultures, where whole fields are devoted to a single plant. Monocultures are stark landscapes, built around the logic of factories…
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![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![Tiger Tourism: Can Travel Help Save These Big Cats?](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Tiger Tourism/tiger-484097_1920.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Brad Nahill
Tigers are one of the most charismatic and beautiful animals on earth. They are the world’s largest cat and can live across a wide range of habitats, from mountains to coastal wetlands. Most of the world’s…
Read more![Visiting the World Wide Fund for Nature in India](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/WWF Interview/Photo_6.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Altaire Cambata
India is a country with incredible biodiversity and hundreds of cultures and languages, and they all have to coexist in a country with limited resources. Izilwane’s Altaire Cambata sits down with some…
Read more![A Winding Road: Population and Consumption in India](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Altaire India/14_Made%20in%20India_.17394b91.jpg)
by Altaire Cambata
In a world where the opulent often clashes with the impoverished, where modernity clashes with tradition, India has swept travelers off their feet by embracing both and the contradictions therein. Here,…
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