Voices of JGI

How To Be Green With Your Green: Eco-Friendly Fashion Products

April 24, 2017 — We as consumers are living in the age of analysis paralysis, where there are too many options available to make a decision. The distance between the supplier and the distributor is becoming increasingly large, to the point where we do not know where our goods come from. So with all of the goods in front […]

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Disney Conserving Nature and Sharing Nature with the World

April 21, 2017 — What do pandas, snow leopards, and golden snub-nosed monkeys all have in common? Besides being fluffy and adorable, they can all be seen up close and like never before in Born in China ! Disney Nature’s Born in China film is hitting theaters Earth Day weekend, April 21, 2017. The movie follows these three animals through […]

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How To Be Green With Your Green: Eco-Friendly Tech Products

April 21, 2017 — It is commonly thought that creating an eco-friendly home or operating on clean tech is a task for the 1%. Solar panel installations, solar water heaters and geothermal heat pumps are all revolutionary energy saving investments that will ultimately give you a huge return on your monthly energy bill and certainly deserve recognition. But, if […]

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Swimming with Sharks & Rays: New Tourism Guide Released

March 20, 2017 — Blood rushes through your veins as you swim closer to the giant lurking in the shadows. Your hands shake holding your camera, ready to get the video of a lifetime. The warm Indian Ocean engulfs you as you inch nearer, eager to encounter the biggest fish in the sea: the whale shark. You stop and […]

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A Star is Born in ‘Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale’

March 18, 2017 — They say that the impact of a name determines so much in a single life that it perhaps can even shape and define an individual. When a baby elephant entered the world in Botswana, the stars aligned to create one destined for greatness: “Naledi,” or ‘star’ in Setswana. In Naledi: A Baby Elephant’s Tale, we’re […]

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The Amazon You Have Not Seen is Disappearing: Yasuni Man

March 16, 2017 — Interview with filmmaker Ryan Killackey of Yasuni Man At the International Primatological Society Conference, the JGI jungles of the Congo Basin interacted with the jungles of hundreds of other primate researchers and organizations. Along this primate journey, I met a filmmaker named Ryan Patrick Killackey, who is the producer, writer and director of a film called […]

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The Brutal Poetry of Nature

March 14, 2017 — The world is jam packed with bad news. It’s like traffic, sometimes you just can’t avoid it. But there is the road less traveled. If you follow this road it will reveal a spellbinding landscape: devoid of plastic, litter, smog and clouds of disappointment. The natural world is medicine, and last month while on an […]

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Air China Bans Shipment of Shark Fins

March 13, 2017 — FACT: Fifteen species of sharks are endangered and 11 are critically endangered. FACT: As many as 73 million sharks are killed for the shark fin trade every year. Ever since the release of Jaws, there’s a general attitude that sharks are violent, dangerous creatures keen to attack anything that comes their way. Thankfully, the perception […]

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Meet the Vaquita, Before It’s Gone

March 08, 2017 — In the Gulf of California’s shallow waters, the world’s smallest marine mammal is in desperate trouble. The vaquita, known in Spanish as “little cow,” is projected to go extinct by next year. There are only 30 vaquitas left in the wild, according to a recent report by the International Committee for the Recovery of the […]

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World Wildlife Day: A World Without Wildlife, is Not a World at All

March 03, 2017 — What would the world absent of wildlife look like? We might think of a morning without the chiming song of birds, an ocean without whales spouting blasts of sea water beside ships, or a forest without the heart-stopping calls of chimpanzees. This is a world we cannot imagine, because it is one we should not […]

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