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World Environment Day: China Works Toward a Brighter Future

June 04, 2017 — My first visit to China, in 1998, was to Shanghai at the invitation the Central East Asia Regional Council of Overseas Schools, where I gave a keynote address. I was thrilled by this opportunity, as it provided a way for me to honor a promise I had made to Greg MacIsaac, who had helped with […]

World Turtle Day: Excerpt from ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’

May 23, 2017 — For World Turtle Day, we must celebrate all the movements led by everyday people, working individually or together, to protect turtles and their environments. Dr. Goodall, as usual, offers a perfectly inspiring tale of the tortoises of Madagascar (specifically the ploughshare tortoise, one of the most critically endangered in the world) and their potential salvation, […]

The Beauty and Perseverance of Biodiversity

May 22, 2017 — Today, on International Day of Biodiversity, I reflect on the fact that we are experiencing the 6th great extinction; the first great extinction attributed directly to human actions. I have spent many, many days in the rain forests of Gombe National Park in Tanzania, and enjoyed opportunities to visit forests in other countries as well […]

Remembering La Vieille: Mother To Orphaned Chimps

May 13, 2017 — I am not sure who introduced me to La Vieille for the first time, way back in the late 1980s. She was living (existing rather) in what was known as the Pointe Noire Zoo in the Republic of Congo. It had been built, in the French colonial era, as a holding station for wild animals […]

International Migratory Bird Day: Birds of a Feather, Fly Together!

May 10, 2017 — Every year, billions of birds migrate (sometimes for thousands of miles), to their breeding grounds and back again. Many of them follow well established routes known as ‘flyways.’ I know birders who travel each year to watch the migration of raptors, including bald eagles. The internet provides fascinating information if you are interested to learn […]

Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)

April 28, 2017 — Recently, the German Minister banned meat at official functions (HuffPo). Additionally, Portugal just passed a law which requires public cafeterias to offer at least one vegan option, applying to prisons, schools, universities, hospitals and other public buildings (Care2). Some people may be asking, ‘Why all this fuss?,’ but as we approach the People’s Climate March […]

Who Will Safe-Guard the Great Grizzly?

March 06, 2017 — Over the years I have had the privilege of meeting grizzly bears on several occasions, including up close in Alaska. They are huge, majestic, awe-inspiring and like so many people I was deeply moved. For me they symbolize, along with the Wolf, the Bison and the Bald Eagle, the American wilderness that I read and […]

We Must Protect Wild Alaska for Bears, Wolves & Other Wildlife

February 27, 2017 — I was very pleased last year when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service enacted a rule that bars state-sponsored and recreational killing of ecologically important predator species like gray wolves and grizzly bears on national wildlife refuges in Alaska. But now I hear, to my dismay, that this rule (called the Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, […]

A Lucky Day: World Pangolin Day!

February 15, 2017 — At the recent International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) meeting on biodiversity in Hawaii last September I was asked by one of my good friends, Azzedine Downes, who happens to be President of International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) if I would give a short talk at a gathering they were organizing – about pangolins! Azzedine knows I […]

Remembering My Mentor : Robert Hinde

January 20, 2017 — When I heard that Robert had left us, I found it hard to believe. For it marks the passing of an era, the era of the first great early ethologists, Konrad Lorenz, Karl von Fritz, Niko Tinbergen, Robert’s supervisor, David Lack – and Robert Hinde himself. It is not my intention to write about the […]

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World Environment Day: China Works Toward a Brighter Future

World Turtle Day: Excerpt from ‘Hope for Animals and Their World’

The Beauty and Perseverance of Biodiversity

Remembering La Vieille: Mother To Orphaned Chimps

International Migratory Bird Day: Birds of a Feather, Fly Together!

Why I Went Plant-Based (And Why We Should All Eat Less Meat)

Who Will Safe-Guard the Great Grizzly?

We Must Protect Wild Alaska for Bears, Wolves & Other Wildlife

A Lucky Day: World Pangolin Day!

Remembering My Mentor : Robert Hinde