![Peaceful Coexistence: Snow Leopards and Humans Share Pakistan’s Mountains](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Peaceful Coexistence With Snow Leopards/FeaturePhotoLeopard400x400.b2569926.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Confession: I am a lifelong lover of snow leopards. So, a couple of months ago, when I was sick of politics, I was happy to follow a Facebook-suggested link to Snow Leopard Trust. I eagerly read their…
Read more![An Interview with Wendee Nicole, Founder & Director of the Redemption Song Foundation](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/An Interview with Wendee Nicole/PREVIEWPHOTObeck1532.c2ef37d6.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Bwindi Impenetrable Forest in Uganda is one of the most biodiverse regions on the planet. It is home to half the world’s population of endangered mountain gorillas, several other primates, 400 species…
Read more![Animal Kindness Beyond Borders](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Animal Kindness/preview-image.dc5991f3.jpg)
by Debra Denker
“Kindness to animals has no boundaries” is both the tagline of Animal-Kind International (AKI) and the kernel of its mission statement. The New Mexico-based nonprofit was founded in 2007 to support partner…
Read more![The Zimbabwean Hero](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/The Zimbabwean Hero/Home%20Page%20Thumb.381804bd.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Johnny Rodrigues, Chairman of the Zimbabwe Conservation Task Force (ZCTF), is a key figure in Zimbabwean wildlife conservation. Despite the heroic labels that have been ascribed to his actions, Rodrigues…
Read more![Clean Stoves and Healthy Forests](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/Clean Burning Stoves Yak Dung/Himalyan%20Stove_Thumb.5b22e5d8.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Household Air Pollution (HAP) affects more than three billion people — almost half of the world’s population. The U.S.-based non-profit The Himalayan Stove Project, founded by George Basch, provides free,…
Read more![Coyote Killing Contests: The Truth](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Coyote Killing Contests/JonJacobsCoyote.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Since Europeans first set foot on the American continent, war has been waged against predators, with bounties and other lethal programs put on their heads. But, when a predator is no longer a threat, when…
Read more![The Bison of Yellowstone National Park](/assets/image-cache/images/features/Bison of Yellowstone/Bison.2f9bad62.jpg)
by Georgia Woodroffe
Yellowstone National Park is America’s oldest national park. It is also home to many large mammals, including elk, wolves, moose, bears and bison, the charismatic megafauna of the American West. But the…
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![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![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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