![Celebrating World Oceans Day: 5 Ways to Say Thank You](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Celebrating World Oceans Day/Thumbnail.97c790db.jpg)
by Symber Canepari
The ocean has provided beauty and sanctuary for many, and now it needs our help in return. In honor of World Oceans Day, here are five ways I’ve learned to say thank you to the ocean that everyone can…
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by Phillip Gibbs
There are many books about environmental issues and the environmental movement, but what really sets Out of the Wasteland: Stories from the Environmental Frontier apart is that it both parallels the development…
Read more![For the Love of Chimpanzees](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Voices/For the Love of Chimpanzees/Thumbnail.a6d97ced.jpg)
by Paula Pebsworth
Chimpanzees live primarily in large intact forests dotted across Equatorial Africa and, out of all other animal species, are considered our closest living relatives.
Read more![La Cocina de Bosnia: cultivo y crecimiento](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Growing the Bosnian Kitchen/IMG_0289_thumbnail.b2569926.jpg)
by Andrew Flachs, Ashley Glenn
El amanecer en la Bosnia rural comienza lentamente mientras la luz del sol se asoma a través de las colinas y retazos de nubes se posan sobre los valles. Estamos tomando café en una aldea que queda dos…
Read more![Growing the Bosnian Kitchen: Sustainable Food Systems](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Growing the Bosnian Kitchen/IMG_0289_thumbnail.b2569926.jpg)
by Andrew Flachs, Ashley Glenn
Dawn in rural Bosnia breaks slowly, as the sunlight peeks through hilltops and wisps of clouds settle in the valleys. We’re drinking coffee in a village two hours northwest of Sarajevo, where the morning…
Read more![Lessons in Sustainable Design](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2013/08/Photo_2.84cdda71.jpg)
by George Stevens
The lunar landscape of Cappadocia, a historical region in central Turkey, is truly otherworldly. It makes you stop and think, “Where the heck am I?” It is a place where humans and natural beauty have coexisted…
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![Brilliant Baboons](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Pebsworth/Photo_2.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
In the short film Brilliant Baboons, which premiered earlier this month at the Taos Shortz Film Festival, Pebsworth sits down with Izilwane to talk about her research into geophagy –…
Read more![Standing up for the Baboons: Primatologist Paula Pebsworth](/assets/image-cache/images/interviews/Pebsworth/Photo_4.7603d9d1.jpg)
by Debra Denker
Voices for Biodiversity became aware of Pebsworth’s work when she was doing her field research in South Africa. Voices for Biodiversity’s founder, Dr. Tara Waters Lumpkin, and filmmaker…
Read more![Food Security and Sustainable Action](/assets/image-cache/images/galleries/ODonnell/Freshly%20caught%20Saithe%20Artic%20Norway.bc6f3c82.jpg)
by Jessica Schmonsky
Climate change affects agriculture and food production both directly through changing environmental conditions and indirectly by affecting growth and the distribution of incomes. Current studies suggest…
Read more![Preservation of Wild Places May Help Protect Human Health](/assets/image-cache/images/wpImages/2012/06/Little_Red_Flying_Foxes.46980fe9.jpg)
by Kathryn Dixon
In eco-immunology, a young new field of scientific research, the main goal of researchers is to understand how the spread of disease in wildlife is exacerbated by human and environmental elements (like…
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