Too Rare to Wear: Stopping Illegal Trade of Hawksbill Turtle Products
by Georgia Woodroffe
The Too Rare to Wear campaign brings tourist and conservation groups together to end the trade of illegal tortoiseshell products. Also called turtleshell, this material comes from hawksbill sea turtles,…
Read more- Apr 04, 2017
Q&A with Spencer Wells, author of Pandora’s Seed
by Julia Osterman
Izilwane interviews eminent population geneticist and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Spencer Wells to discuss his most recent book, Pandora’s Seed. He talks about the need to consider the long-term…
Read more- Nov 14, 2011
Pandora’s Seed: The Unforeseen Cost of Civilization
by Julia Osterman
In this stirring study of how civilization has strained the human relationship with the natural world, author Spencer Wells examines issues such as obesity, global warming, the rise of mental illness,…
Read more- Nov 07, 2011
