![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![The Four Furies of the Southwest](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/DeBuys/Photo_2.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
President of Voices for Biodiversity, Dr. Tara Lumpkin, sits down with author William de Buys to talk about the four greatest threats to the fragile Southwestern ecosystems. How are the recent fires in…
Read more![Elephants in the Refuge](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Wasara Elephants/Photo_2.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Oriane Lee Johnston
Wasara Ranch and the Chiredzi River Land Conservancy in Zimbabwe is theoretically a place of refuge. But the flood of new settlers continues unchecked and has decimated the original Wasara ranch land,…
Read more![The Mozambique Horse Safari](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Mozambique Horse/Lee_Photo2.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Oriane Lee Johnston
In 2010, Oriane Lee Johnston Googled the terms Africa, Horse and Volunteer, ready for a new adventure. What she found was the website for Mozambique Horse Safari, complete with some of the most beautiful…
Read more![Bird Calls](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Bird Song/Glossy_Starling_Kruger_400x400.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
Bird song, I discovered, is different in southern Africa from anywhere else that I’ve traveled in the world -- louder, more melodic; an orchestra rather than a few musicians chirping. The meadow lark,…
Read more![The Human Animal and Biodiversity](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Impressions/Biodiversity/IMG_2430ZuluWeaving.b6567f6c.jpg)
by Tara Waters Lumpkin
Tara Lumpkin explores how we can protect biodiversity by becoming aware of our "humanness" -- both good and bad -- and thus change our relationship to the environment and other species.
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