![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.
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![Invasive Beetle Threatens America’s Ash Trees](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/07/EAB_courtesy_USDS.4194a5b7.jpg)
by Merri Collins
A small green beetle could be responsible for the destruction of all 7.5 billion ash trees throughout Canada and the U.S. It has already ravaged 100 million ash trees across 14 states and parts of Canada,…
Read more![Florida Black Bear No Longer Endangered](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/07/7096700591_9fd7d6fcb4_b-300x225.4194a5b7.jpg)
by Merri Collins
The Florida black bear, a subspecies of the North American black bear, was removed from Florida’s Endangered Species List by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission on June 27th.
Read more![Canada’s Vanishing Sage Grouse](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/06/5162182815_53f666206f_b3-300x239.46980fe9.jpg)
by Merri Collins
A dramatic decrease in Canada’s sage grouse population reported this spring has led many to believe this prairie bird, listed as endangered in Canada since 1998, is facing extinction.
Read more![Tracking the Pacific Octopus](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/06/4733543381_641eed7d55_z.46980fe9.jpg)
by Merri Collins
The solitary and elusive Giant Pacific octopus, found in coastal waters of the North Pacific, holds the title of largest and longest-lived of the octopus species. The largest Pacific octopus on record…
Read more![Saving the Ghosts of the Forest](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/06/2694295566_de10f2e526-199x300.46980fe9.jpg)
by Merri Collins
The silky sifaka is a rare species of white lemur, known in Madagascar as the “ghost of the forest”, for its ability to evade the human eye by swinging swiftly through the tree tops. Silkies are one of…
Read more![Do you know the Pudú?](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/06/2268993753_7f37d02c4c_b.46980fe9.jpg)
by Merri Collins
Pudú are the world’s smallest deer species, found in the temperate forests of South America. Like other deer, pudú eat foliage, shoots, twigs, bark, buds, fruit and seeds.
Read more![40th Anniversary of the Marine Mammal Protection Act](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/05/USFWSotter.46980fe9.jpg)
by Merri Collins
Recently, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife service recognized the 40th anniversary of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA).
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