![Hurricane Impact on Wildlife](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Hurricane Impact on Wildlife/Thumbnail.4dad7336.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
In the United States, the news is currently dominated by storm stories, from Hurricane Harvey’s assault on Texas and Louisiana, to the incoming Hurricane Irma heading toward island nations, Puerto Rico,…
Read more![Meeting with an Elephant](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Meeting with an Elephant/Thumbnail.32214753.jpg)
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![Garbage to Garden: Using Compost to Reduce Landfill Waste](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Garbage to Garden/Thumbnail.43cdb66a.2b9b4b28.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Landfills create big problems. Toxins in electronic refuse — old cell phones, computers, televisions, etc. — can eventually leach into the soil and groundwater, causing decades of environmental health…
Read more![Searching for Fish in Cameroon](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Searching for Fish/Boat_20-Thumbnail-Edited.1e0c446b.jpg)
by Joe Cutler
Crowds of people funneled past me as I unloaded my sampling equipment from the back of a taxi in Cameroon’s Kumba Market. The driver helped me pull my gear from the trunk: a huge backpack, a sack of gillnets,…
Read more![Waiting for Owls](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Waiting for Owls/Owl%20feature-400x400.87c19665.jpg)
by Laurel Mundy
In the woods, the air is still and quiet. The ground is warm from the sunshine that beats down on the hillside all day, but mostly, it’s dark. The lightest breeze brings the smell of ponderosa bark and…
Read more![Can Citizen Science Save Us?](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Dispatch/Can Citizen Science Save Us/peninsularis-387332_1920.7f36d62b.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Voices for Biodiversity’s Advisory Board Member Mary Ellen Hannibal took the TEDx Stanford stage to discuss her journey towards becoming a citizen scientist, and how this discipline could save the world.
Read more![The Remarkable Comeback of the Channel Islands Fox](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Feature/Cooperative Conservation/Garland_6_Thumbnail.a1d5d6b3.jpg)
by Gemina Garland-Lewis
When I first set foot on Santa Cruz Island, I hadn’t yet heard the story of the island fox and its remarkable recovery. To be honest, I didn’t even know these foxes existed. The first time I saw one, I…
Read more![Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Galleries/Grand Bay National Estuarine/Grand%2025-400x400.abec955d.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
Established in 1999, the Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (GB NERR) now stretches across 18,000 acres. In addition to the estuary’s salt marshes, the reserve also covers rare pine savannas,…
Read more![New Fishing Line Recyclers Along the Emerald Coast](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Field Notes/Fishing Line/cba_PREVIEW_thumbnail.1e0c446b.jpg)
by Erika Zambello
For a few months this winter, my office in Okaloosa County became storage space for ten monofilament recyclers. Wide PVC pipes had been painted with beautiful marine designs — from herons to crabs to mermaids…
Read more![In Search of a Common Wilderness](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Impression/In Search of a Common Wilderness/Hawkins_Water_edit.69b940c5.jpg)
by Dan Hawkins
On the morning of January 19, 2017, I found myself in the Tararua Mountains on New Zealand’s North Island, in a gale. I had been in New Zealand for two months as part of a four-month hiking traverse of…
Read more![The Animals’ Agenda: An Important Look at Human Relationships with Other Animals](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Interviews and Reviews/The Animals Agenda/cow_thumbnail.69b940c5.jpg)
by Sarah Abdelrahim
Humans interact with other animals in a number of ways. When we think about other animals, we might think about our pet dogs, the squirrels we see in our backyards or the giraffes we visit at the zoo.…
Read more![Saving Selfless Shellfish from Sunscreen](/assets/image-cache/media/images/Youth/Saving Selfless Shellfish/Thumbnail.3f14aee3.jpg)
by Madison Toonder
Oysters are bivalve mollusks that provide shelter and food for a variety of organisms, all while improving water clarity and quality through filtration. Oyster reefs formed by aggregations of shells are…
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