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Tusker Satao, in his prime at Tsavo East National Park, Kenya, felled by poachers in May 2014. Photo courtesy of Mark Deeble and Victoria Stone. www.markdeeble.wordpress.com

On the Brink of Extinction (Coming Up)

July 18, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Do these numbers mean anything to you?  30, 45, 60, 200, 7100 Can you match up any of the numbers to critically endangered species? These are animals that may not […]

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Africa, Arctic, Asia, Australia, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered species, Europe, Extinction, Latin America, Wildlife
Rare book cover. Photo by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark.

Coming up: Driven By Nature Joel Sartore Part 2

June 5, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Chances are you’ve never heard of the Fennec Fox or the African White-Bellied Tree Pangolin – but  Joel Sartore, creator of the Photo Ark,  has. He’s on what may be […]

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Africa, Animals at risk, Books, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Exhibitions, Photography, Travel

Paris Climate Agreement – Read and Weep

June 2, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

U.S. pulls out of the Paris Climate Agreement two days after causing a kerfuffle (a real word!) with the invented word covfefe. Here’s what Pulitzer-Prize-winning New Yorker contributor Elizabeth Kolbert has to […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Energy, Environment, Extinction, News, Opinions, Rising Waters, Science, Sustainability, Weather
Black Tip Reef, Blue, Tiger, Gray Reef, Tiger and Oceanic Whitetip -- all featured in Shark - National Geographic exhibition Washington DC Summer 2017

Driven by Nature Part 1: Brian Skerry

June 1, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Three renowned photographers who’ve captured nature on every continent over the past thirty years-– Brian Skerry, Frans Lanting, and Joel Sartore – have logged tens of thousands of hours documenting the beautiful, […]

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Books, Climate change, Conservation, Discovery, Documentary films, Exhibitions, Extinction, Fish, Oceans, Photography, Travel, Whales

My Earth Hero: Neil DeGrasse Tyson Listen Up!

April 23, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

One of the world’s smartest and most popular scientists — check him out (below) on Twitter — Neil DeGrasse Tyson has issued a four-minute video to Americans about the future […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Discovery, Ecology, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Film and television, Heroes, Natural history, People, Science, Sustainability, Technology
Photo Ark book

Earth Heroes: Coming Up

April 13, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Earth Heroes: They’ve traveled from Antarctica to the Amazon, they are activists, scientists, researchers, supremely talented writers and photographers, people who want to make a difference — and they are! […]

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Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Discovery, Endangered species, Environment, Heroes, Natural history, Photography, Research, Science, Sustainability
Hibernating Queen. Courtesy of Conservation Trust

Extinction Looms: Bee Grateful!

March 30, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

A gratifying moment came last week for the rusty patched bumblebee – a highly threatened species of native bee in the U.S. that is an essential pollinator in such crops […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Butterflies, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Extinction, Farming, Food, Gardens, Green Practices, News, Science, Sustainability
Front Page Washington Post, March 16 2017. Credit Washington Post

Trump Budget: Kill Arts, Media, Climate, Parks Funding

March 17, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

Funding for the arts, humanities, public broadcasting, climate change research, national parks, acquisition of public lands, and many social services are among the 50 programs that the Trump Administration intends […]

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archeology, Art & Design, Biodiversity, Climate change, Conservation, Endangered species, Environment, Parks
Pair of pileated woodpeckers feeding on berries at Cacapon State Park (West VA) in May 2015 (Bobbie Faul-Zeitler, CC 3.0)

Birds Rock! The 2017 Bird Count

March 6, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

The 2017 Great Backyard Bird Count  in February just set new records:  it’s the best count ever conducted since the GBBC began in 1998. Here are the stats—as of March […]

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Biodiversity, Birds, Climate change, Conservation, Environment, International, Sustainability, Wildlife
Free diving on the Great Barrier Reef. The corals are deeply threatened.

Extinction Looming: Series Coming Up

March 2, 2017by Bobbie Faul-Zeitler

EXTINCTION. The very word suggests long ago and far away.  Dinosaurs, mastodons, woolly mammoth, saber tooth tigers, aurochs, the dodo,  fossils or remains preserved deep in the earth – the […]

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Animals at risk, Biodiversity, Conservation, Endangered species, Extinction, Sustainability, Travel, Wildlife

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