![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![Restoring Habitat in Indonesian Borneo](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/Restoring Habitat/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Farquhar Stirling
Farquhar Stirling is a retired corporate executive who lives in Indonesia. He is also a volunteer with the Friends of the National Parks Foundation (FNPF), an NGO working in habitat restoration in Kalimantan…
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 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![Biodiversity of the Dry Tortugas](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Biodiversity of the Dry Tortugas/PREVIEW%20PHOTO_CF8T6800.69b940c5.jpg)
by BinBin Li
I visited Dry Tortugas National Park in 2013 and 2015 as part of a field class taught by Dr. Stuart Pimm at Duke University. Located 68 miles west of Key West, this 100 square mile national park is mostly…
Read more![Conservation Under the Pandas Umbrella](assets/media/images/Feature/Conservation under the Pandas'/Panda_Thumbnail.jpg)
by Barbara Fraser
When it comes to wildlife protection, the most photogenic species — such as polar bears, dolphins and pandas — seem to attract the most attention and conservation dollars.
Read more![Indonesian Sustainable Palm Oil](/assets/image-cache/image-cache/images/108x81/Orangutan.31b04f11.jpg)
by Kathryn Pardo
Recently, thanks in part to the work of Voices for Biodiversity, monstrous, forest-chomping companies like Asia Pulp and Paper and their relatives in the palm oil industry, Golden Agri Resources, both…
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…
Read more![Old Man of the Forest](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/Braker Borneo/DSC_0947.25a2ee8c.jpg)
by Caroline Braker
Over the last several decades, human activity, including the development of palm oil plantations, has caused massive deforestation in the Borneo rainforest. More recently, the Malaysian government has…
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