![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![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![Apalachicola National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Apalachicola National Estuarine Reserve/PREVIEW_ap%2062-412x400.07b64810.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Apalachicola Bay has long been famous around the world for its thousands of acres of oyster beds. In fact, in the past, 90 percent of Eastern oysters served in Florida were from Apalachicola.
Read more![Exploring Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Wells National Estuarine Reserves/wells23-FEATURE-400x400.32214753.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Wells Reserve on the coast of Southern Maine was designated in 1984 and encompasses 1,600 acres. The reserve staff facilities sit within beautifully restored farm buildings.
Read more![Can You Find Green Salamanders? A Community Searches in the Appalachians](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Green Salamanders/DSCN3579.eac2d2a4.jpg)
by Wally Smith
This is the case with the green salamander, one of the most unique amphibians in the salamander-rich Appalachian Mountains. The only truly green-colored salamander in eastern North America, the green salamander…
Read more![Snowy Plovers and Citizen Science along the Florida Panhandle](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Snowy Plover/snowy%20plover_preview%20photo.32214753.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
For those who bird on the Emerald Coast, Snowy Plovers are a relatively common sight on Okaloosa Island – once you walk away from the more crowded beach access points. Less than seven inches long and lighter…
Read more![Review of Orangutan: A Day in the Rainforest Canopy](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Review of Orangutan: A Day in the Rainforest Canopy/IMG%201%20Orangutan%20Book%20Cover.69b940c5.jpg)
by Emily Baumbach
The Malay word orangutan translates as “person of the forest,” and the orangutans that once thrived in the wooded areas of the rainforest in Sumatra and Borneo have reached record low population levels.…
Read more![In Palm Oil’s Wake: an interview with Robert Hii](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Palm Oil/DSC_1449.8ef4999f.jpg)
by Kathryn Pardo
There are already 8 million acres of land cleared for palm oil plantations in Indonesia and 9 million in Malaysia, and, according to Rainforest Action Network, the Indonesian government is already planning…
Read more![Of Palm Oil and Extinction](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/palm%20oil%20thumb.69b940c5.jpg)
by Robert Hii
You know the old question: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is around, does it make a noise? I’m not quite sure why that question came to mind when news came out of the extinction of Dipterocarpus…
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