Bird Lovers: Count the Birds Feb 13-16
The Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) is coming — Feb. 13 through 16, 2015 — and you’re invited to participate. It’s easy and it’s free. The Great Backyard Bird Count team […]
Category Archives: Extinction
Asia Pacific Trade Deal: Can It Stop Animal Trafficking?
Jan 28, 2015: Outside Denver, a warehouse filled with one million items – rhino horn, elephant tusks and feet, zebra skins – makes up confiscated items imported into the United […]
Rhinos without Borders: Now or Never!
Emmy-award-winning filmmakers Derek and Beverly Joubert have stalked big game for years – with cameras — for beautiful National Geographic specials. Now they are staking claim to create a future […]
The Oldest Living Things: A Book to Cherish
Brooklyn-based Rachel Sussman spent 10 years in her epic quest to photograph the oldest living things on the planet, resulting in The Oldest Living Things, the book published by the […]
Gift Books 2014: Best of the Best!
Great writers, good storytelling, fascinating subjects — these are the basis for the Best of the Best authors and books for Holidays 2014. Their métier is nonfiction, whether deep science or […]
“Last Days” PSA: Stop elephant poaching
Award-winning director Kathryn Bigelow (remember Hurt Locker and Zero Dark Thirty ?) is tackling a different kind of war – the annihilation of African elephants by organized bands of poachers […]
Elephant Genocide 100,000 Dead in 2 years!
Associated Press reports: “A new study released Monday Aug. 18, 2014, by lead author George Wittemyer of Colorado State University, found that the proportion of illegally killed elephants has climbed […]
Oceans in Deep Trouble: No Oceans, No Us
The ocean is dying.” So says Dr. Sylvia Earle, internationally known oceanographer and advocate who is spearheading Mission Blue — a 90-minute documentary film on NetFlix, a book and new […]
Monarchs on the Move
It’s that season. Monarch butterflies are leaving the upper reaches of their range in North America and heading south for over-wintering in high-altitude sanctuaries in Mexico’s Michoacan Mountains. Depending upon […]
