Post-COP26 Thoughts From A Different Perspective

Post-COP26 Thoughts From A Different Perspective

  It looks very different from here, watching the international circus act of world leaders at COP26 from the rainforest here in Sierra Leone made me think how far away all of “that” seems, and yet simultaneously I’m sitting in the heart of the one natural...
No Room For African Apes

No Room For African Apes

No room for African apes. That appears to be the verdict of a new study published in the journal Diversity and Distributions predicts massive range declines of Africa’s great apes – gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos – due to the impacts of climate change, land-use...
Travel Changes Everyday Lives

Travel Changes Everyday Lives

Much of this blog was drawn from a conversation with Dr. Rick Quinn on our Talking Apes podcast, and from his wonderful book, Just Like Us: A Veterinarian’s Visual Memoir of Our Vanishing Great Ape Relatives. One of my favorite quotes is from Saint Augustine, “The...
EARTH DAY – “It does not take  “everyone on Earth”

EARTH DAY – “It does not take  “everyone on Earth”

  Does it take everyone on Earth to commit to making this a more sustainable livable home? I’m beginning to think not. We know that it does not take “everyone on Earth” to bring justice and peace, but only a small, determined group who will not give...