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Saving the Ghosts of Madagascar, the Lemurs
To see the black and white face of the Indri lemur is to look at a specter, at a moment’s notice capable of disappearing into the increasingly tenuous forests of the 4th largest island on Earth.
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Saving the Great Apes, Our Closest Living Relatives
The prevalent view among Westerners was that they were killers and would attack humans at the slightest provocation.
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Can the Last Wild Rhinos be Saved from Extinction?
This species, the now very rare Sumatran rhino, number only about eighty. The Javan rhino is at less than 70 and the Indian at about 3,500.
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Grizzly bears need better protection now
It was only in 1975 that the grizzly was put on the Endangered Species list, which certain political persuasions and special interests would like to undo, all for the sake of mining, oil, ranching and trophy hunters.
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After Devastating Fires, Australia needs a New Environmental Agenda
The fires should serve as a warning for the rest of us. Its leaders languish with coal in their soul for being in denial of climate realities and the greatest Earth changes Australia has experienced since humans first walked onto the continent.
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The Photographic Seer, Peter Beard, showed us a world on the edge
Some called you a mix of Tarzan, and Byron, some, a sybarite in kikoy reverberant with the wild and the bush where you found your calling, trumpeting your song like a human elephant seduced by the exquisite face of the world. But in fact, your voice was prophetic.
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Why we must save the Amazon
This pandemic is symptomatic of a much larger struggle and our last chance to save the Earth as we know it. In the last 50 years we have lost half the rainforests on Earth. The Amazon lost over 12 million acres last year. And 8.4 million soccer fields last decade!
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In Saving the Elephants and other Species, We Preserve Freedom
Romain Gary, who so articulated the rights of the largest land mammal on earth, was also fighting for mankind's place in the world. Because without the others, there is “no room for man either. All that will be left of us is robots,” Gary insisted.
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Trophy hunting of lions is unscientific as well as immoral.
The practice of trophy hunting is pushing the majestic animals closer to extinction in the wild.
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