“Lions were recognized as powerful creatures but unlike hyenas and leopards in the region, they were not killers of humans. Lions were seen as social superiors, and addressed with ...
“Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.” —Arthur ...
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened.” --Anatole France The push to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water by 2030 ...
“The forest is alive. It can only die if the whites continue destroying it. If they do, rivers will disappear under the earth, the soil will crumble, the trees ...
The predators are under assault around the U.S. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor | Originally published on March 8, 2021 “We have doomed the ...
From trophy hunting to trapping and wolf hunts, wildlife is under siege. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor | Originally published on March 8, 2021 ...
What film can do in a fragile world. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor | Originally published on March 4, 2021 It is an enormous ...
We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor | Originally published on October 4, 2020 “It's not our job ...
Walking Thunder: Ode to the African Elephant Limited Offer! PUBLISHED: BORN FREE USA Filmmakers and Born Free friends, Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, generously offer Born Free USA donors ...
Honoring the insects — they who uphold the world. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor February 4, 2021 “If we go on the way we ...
Trophy hunting hurts, not helps, conservation. PUBLISHED: THE HILL by Opinion Contributor, Cyril Christo, January 25, 2021 “I do not want to live on a planet where there are ...
Reflections from Baffin Island PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor January 18, 2021 Many European explorers have passed through these waters, explorers of old looking ...
From expanding hunting and trapping to reducing protections for wildlife, Republicans are putting animals at risk. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Steve Capra and Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor ...
This rare celestial occurrence is a time to reflect on humankind’s place in the cosmos. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor December 11, 2020 “We ...
The Trump administration is pursuing a controversial plan to open up ANWR to oil drilling. Here’s what’s at stake. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor ...
A new administration has its environmental work cut out for it. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor November 11, 2020 “It is horrifying that we ...
Some of the biggest financial groups have helped dismantle the world. But now they are coming to the rescue. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor ...
Jonas Salk, Albert Szent Gyorgi and Erwin Chargaff were prominent scientists and humanists who warned us about the direction we’re heading in. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril ...
Blue is the color of Peace and Transcendence. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor November 1, 2020 “Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only ...
The Largest Temperate Rainforest on Earth, Alaska's Tongass, Cannot be Sacrificed PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor October 27, 2020 “Nothing dollarable is safe.” —John Muir ...
The Country Wrestles with Questions over Mining and Indigenous Peoples’ rights. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor Sept 14, 2020 “I awoke when the ground of ...
We are reaching a point of no return. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor Sept 2, 2020 It’s great to know that some arch conservatives don’t ...
A letter to the Southern Africa country after hundreds of elephants were found dead. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor July 30, 2020 I write because ...
“My friends see forces in and behind things which they personify as Spirits. They believe God or Supreme Beings dwell in the tangible world rather than the cathedrals of ...
“Now up there in the sky, the people up there, the spirits, the dead people up there, they sang for me so I can dance.”--Bushman Elder Lessons from the ...
“There, out there, the aliens were building a dam across the holiest spot on Earth. They were going to flood the sacred gorge of Kariba and drown the ancient graves ...
...it seems like people want to grab everything for themselves, they don't care, they just destroy. There will be terrible things that are going to happen. We need to clean ...
“The natural world is precious, more precious than Rembrandt or the Hope Diamond, but is being destroyed every day. We can band together to value nature with all its treasures. …
“Gorillas are almost altruistic in nature. There’s very little of any ‘me-itis.’ When I get back to civilization I’m always appalled by ‘me, me, me.’ ” —Dian Fossey PUBLISHED: THE …
“…once you break through into the rhinoceros’s idiom, discover what a rhinoceros mother would find beautiful in a rhinoceros son, the impression animal beauty makes on you is blinding.” …
“Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.” –Edward Abbey PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor …
“With your vision you see me sitting on a rock, but I am sitting on the body of my ancestor. The earth, his body, and my body are identical.” …
Editor’s note: Wildlife photographer Peter Beard has died at 82. Image is of Peter Beard and Lou Reed. PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor April …
PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor April 15, 2020 ““The world needs to listen to the cry of the Earth, which is asking for help. If …
PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor April 7, 2020 “Today you say that elephants are archaic and cumbersome, that they interfere with roads and telegraph poles, …
PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor February 12, 2020 “What if a greater race of beings were to make flutes and buttons out of our bones?” …
PUBLISHED: THE HILL: Changing America by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor March 30, 2020 “We’re under some gross misconception that we’re a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the …
PUBLISHED: THE HILL by Cyril Christo, Opinion Contributor March 23, 2020 “Modern man does not experience himself as a part of nature but as an outside force destined to dominate …
PUBLISHED: CHANGING AMERICA by Cyril Christo, 2020 “Confraternity of the living sun, make the embers of financial and industrial internationalism pale upon the hearth of the earth.” -DH Lawrence “The …
“A new book (Lords of the Earth: The Entwined Destiny of Wildlife and Humanity) shines a light on what’s at stake, as well as the intimate relationship between local people …
“We’re not even native to this earth, the way we’re behaving.” — Lysander Christo PUBLISHED: THE SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN By Cyril Christo Dec 21, 2019 Lord Rees years ago …
An important new movie and book project make a new and urgent case to defend Africa’s wildlife because our own fate depends on it. This article was published on the …
We are looking for collectors of our 20 x 24 inch black and white photographs for research in the field on a film about the meaning and importance of the …
Earth’s Greatest Predator No Match for Man This article was published in the Santa Fe New Mexican on September 21, 2019. LINK “The melting ice is the hourglass that marks …
Saturday, June 15, 2019 @ 5:30 PM Guild Hall, 158 Main St, East Hampton, NY 11937 One of our photographs, “Zambezi Elephants I,” is up for auction. Join us for …
The Plight of the Pachyderms: Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson’s ode to the African Elephant Article printed in the Pasatiempo on April 19, 2019 Walking Thunder: Ode to the African …
Reception Saturday, April 13 from 4 to 6pm. Closing Reception, April 21 from noon to 3pm THIS EXHIBITION WILL BE IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE FILMMAKER’S BEAUTIFUL FILM, WALKING THUNDER, WHICH …
IS AN OFFICIAL SELECTION FOR SCREENING AT THE 10TH ANNUAL SANTA FE INDEPENDENT FILM FESTIVAL, OCTOBER 17-21. COME TO THE SCREEN ON FRIDAY, OCTOBER 19th at 6PM!!!! Santa Fe University of …
Article printed in the Santa Fe New Mexican on August 11, 2018 I saw the sea spilling its tumultuous brain this summer on Amagansett Beach, a dead humpback lying like …
Documenting the African elephant’s ‘last stand’ by John C. Cannon on 21 May 2018 COMPLETE ARTICLE ON MONGABAY: CLICK “Walking Thunder” can feel like a family trip around the continent of Africa — …
SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN – Commentary by Cyril Christo Published Feb 10, 2018 We’re stuck in deep sand, with a lion kill nearby. No technology, no radio can save us. …
PUBLISHED ON NOVEMBER 15, 2017 AT: http://voicesforbiodiversity.org “In another generation, perhaps, the animals of Africa, the little, beautiful animals of the plains and the strange, gigantic animals, the last survivors …
We came face to face with a bull elephant at 10 feet, on foot. Our guide, unique in Africa, trusted us. We trusted the elephant. And, more importantly, the elephant …
PRINTED IN VOICES FOR BIO DIVERSITY: August 27, 2017 At the age of 11, Lysander Christo traveled to the Okavango Delta with his father Cyril Christo. They visited this important location …
PRINTED IN VOICES FOR BIO DIVERSITY: August 14, 2017 We walked among the armored behemoths in total awe, mesmerized by the sands and giant green Euphorbia bushes that seemed to be …
The East Hampton Star: July 12, 2017 To the Editor, Not long ago our son, Lysander, 11, and I got stuck in more than six inches of sand in the …
The leopard haunts the forests and lurks in the shadows of the savannahs of Asia and Africa, like a stealthy ghost born in equal measure of the golden sun and …
Prayer for the Great Sentinel of the Plains – the Giraffe They are the great sentinels of the plains, towering ambassadors who root the earth to the sky like no …
Excerpt from EPOCH TIMES, February 22, 2017 by Cyril Christo Like a cetacean torch lunging out of water, a humpback greeted the setting sun in ecstatic breach. So started our …
In 1967, Romain Gary, that remarkable poet of the spirit, penned an address to you, the elephants of earth, of such stunning clarity and beauty; it is a prayer for …
PHOTO ABOVE: A Native American protestor pauses on land being prepared for the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) near Cannon Ball, North Dakota on Sept. 3. (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images) If you think …
AUTHOR: Cyril Christo. Published EPOCH TIMES, October 5, 2016 As a concerned parent and Academy Award nominee who helped alert the world to the elephant crisis in the landmark “Agony …
RECENT ARTICLE USING CHRISTO & WILKINSON PHOTOGRAPHY By Sarah Le, Epoch Times September 27, 2016 CITES is considering a proposal to reclassify all African elephants to the category Appendix I, …
Saving the Great Being of the Elephant By Cyril Christo | September 13, 2016 One day the absurdity of the almost universal human belief in the slavery of other animals …
SIGN THE PETITION Pesticides are killing bees and the U.S. government knows it 82% We’ve reached 164,993 of our goal of 200,000. Sign the petition The petition to the Environmental …
I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. —Abraham Lincoln …. We have doomed the wolf not …
Published on Mongabay on Nov 6, 2015 in Commentary By Cyril Christo “I salute you ancient ocean. Answer me, ocean do you want to be my brother?” wrote Lautreamont, …
PUBLISHED: EPOCH TIMES October 22, 2015 The so-called civilized people? They had no excuse. They hunted for what they called ‘trophies,’ for the excitement of it, for pleasure, in fact. …
One overwhelming afternoon, four remarkable, four legged planets of perfection moved over the poem of the African wilderness and stepped into our hearts forever. They roam the hinterlands of …
The so-called civilized people? They had no excuse. They hunted for what they called ‘trophies’, for the excitement of it, for pleasure, in fact. —Romain Gary, “The Roots of Heaven” …
It lies on the far south western coast of Africa, a basaltic theatre of red rock carved from the skin of Gondwaland when Africa and south America were joined at …
Our Wild World Monday at 8 AM (Pacific) CLICK TO GO TO SITE July 13, 2015: “Twisted Balance Sheet,” with Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson In the brief time scale …
PUBLISHED: Epoch Times Online DATE: April 22, 2015 AUTHOR: Cyril Christo We first went to Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, to see its famous polar bears, whose lives were being threatened by …
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us, universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings as something separated …
PUBLISHED IN THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, AMAGANSETT DATE: February 9, 2015 AUTHOR: Cyril Christo To the Editor: A few years before our son, Lysander, was born, we walked across the …
Published in The East Hampton Star The Tipping Point Amagansett October 6, 2014 To the Editor: What have we learned after the climate march? Half of all nonhuman life, its …
Published on Izilwane, Author: Lysander Christo Today, the problem is poaching. It is estimated that one elephant dies every 15 minutes. We lose thousands of elephants to poaching every year, …
East Hampton Star Amagansett August 23, 2014 TO THE EDITOR: For a transitory enchanted moment, man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an …
East Hampton Star Amagansett August 15, 2014 TO THE EDITOR: An alarm call needs to be sounded, but not one that blasts the ears of whales to the point of …
East Hampton Star Amagansett August 6, 2014 TO THE EDITOR: This summer, after witnessing transcendent incantations at Lalibela’s churches in Ethiopia, we went to witness the great tuskers in Kenya. …
Our breakfast in Tsavo (Tsavo is where the world’s largest elephant Satao was from and where he was killed by poachers only a short while ago) along the Galdessa River …
One of the blessings that Cyril and I give thanks for is our ability to travel and do our shoots accompanied by Lysander, our son. He’s been with us in …
As many of you know, we three are in Africa. This is Lysander in Tsavo where Lysander (above photo) found rock amusements in the deep sienna earth. Barely managed to …
For Immediate Release June 16, 2014 AMERICAN CONSERVATION PHOTOGRAPHERS CHRISTO & WILKINSON MOURN DEATH OF SATAO, CALL FOR INCREASED PROTECTION FOR ENDANGERED ELEPHANTS Cyril Christo: Blatant Killing of One of …
PUBLISHED IN OPINIONS/MY VIEW, SANTA FE NEW MEXICAN - 9/8/2013 Several years ago, my wife, Marie, and I began to mourn the tragic dismembering of elephant society across Africa. We ...
ARTICLE IN THE ECOLOGIST – July 27, 2011 Cyril Christo and Marie Wilkinson, authors of Walking Thunder, explain why the survival of the elephant is critical for our own future. …