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

April 01, 2026 — 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!

April 01, 2026 — 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

April 01, 2026 — 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 […]

The Ivory Game and China’s New Year’s Commitment to End Ivory Trade

April 01, 2026 — I just received the wonderful news that China will shut down its legal commercial ivory trade, completely, by the end of 2017. It is fantastic news for the elephants and for those fighting to save them since China is the biggest market for ivory. This news comes two days after I shared information about the […]

World AIDS Day 2016

April 01, 2026 — On this day, let us please celebrate the progress science is making in finding a cure for HIV/AIDS. It is a day for giving thanks to those scientists who have worked so hard and continue to work to find new advancements for treatments and medications. We must also take time to think of all of […]

Post Election 2016: What’s Next?

April 01, 2026 — Over the past few weeks, friends and colleagues from around the world have written to express concern about what the results of the US presidential election might mean for all of us who care passionately about every aspect of JGI’s work – conservation, animal welfare, peace, human rights and wellbeing and environmental education. I absolutely […]

Tales from the Food Crisis: The True Horrors of GMOs

April 01, 2026 — How could we have ever believed that it as a good idea to grow our food with poisons. – Dr. Jane Goodall To celebrate the end of Non-GMO month, we are excited to share the below excerpt from Dr. Jane Goodall’s book, Seeds of Hope: Wisdom and Wonder from the World of Plants, published by […]

Jane Speaks: The Dakota Access Pipeline – Native Protectors of Sacred Water Draw the Line

April 01, 2026 — The Pipe It is interesting that in an era of consolidated messages for use in digital channels, campaigns for justice often develop shortened, “catchy” taglines. These phrases provide a touchstone for unified voices and repeated commitment to a cause – the sound of people fighting together, building on more and more voices when these voices may otherwise be […]

The Tree that Survived 9/11

April 01, 2026 — This story comes from another dark chapter in human history. A recent horror, which all but young children will remember. A day in 2001 when the World Trade Center was attacked, when the Twin Towers fell, when the world changed forever. I was in New York on that terrible day, traveling with my friend and […]

Letter from Jane: New York Blood Center, Take Responsibility For Research Chimps

April 01, 2026 — UPDATE: Last year, after using a colony of more than 60 chimpanzees on an island off the coast of Liberia for 30 years of biomedical research, the New York Blood Center withdrew all funding and left them to die. Last week, after private negotiations between the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and the New […]

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

A Lucky Day: World Pangolin Day!

Remembering My Mentor : Robert Hinde

The Ivory Game and China’s New Year’s Commitment to End Ivory Trade

World AIDS Day 2016

Post Election 2016: What’s Next?

Tales from the Food Crisis: The True Horrors of GMOs

Jane Speaks: The Dakota Access Pipeline – Native Protectors of Sacred Water Draw the Line

The Tree that Survived 9/11

Letter from Jane: New York Blood Center, Take Responsibility For Research Chimps