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There’s been a lot of talk about reproductive rights lately – and for good reason. Hard-fought freedoms are under fire around the world, from the U.S. to Poland, Niger, and Pakistan. If that fires you up, read this conversation with Nabeeha Kazi Hutchins about how you can join the fight. Nabeeha, you’re the president and […]

Madagascar is home to more than 200,000 species, and it’s estimated that 80% are found nowhere else on Earth. Unfortunately, many species on this island are critically threatened, including the bamboo lemur and Madagascar pochard. To save these animals from extinction, Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust launched a partnership with the organization Marie Stopes. By improving

What started as a student adventure in a tropical mountain fruit farm in Venezuela became a lifelong mission of empowering rural women! Read the fascinating life story of Steven Bloomstein, co-founder of Turimiquire Foundation, an organization that has helped 70,000 women with family planning and reached over 80,000 people with workshops about reproductive health. Before

It’s not easy being a woman in Niger. The odds are especially high for women to drop out of high school, get married young (17 is the average age), or be displaced due to climate change, insecurity or humanitarian crisis! What happens to women in Niger, though, doesn’t stay in Niger alone. It impacts the

Uganda’s first wildlife vet and award-winning conservationist, Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka, shares her personal story about how her organization “Conservation Through Public Health“ has contributed to a steady growth of mountain gorillas in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park in Uganda. That’s in addition to a major improvement in community health, a threefold increase in family planning use,

Advocates are inserting storylines into TV and radio shows to promote behaviors that could lead to social change. Just don’t call it infotainment. When Aisha Bekele’s (not her real name) daughter was 14, she was abducted on her way to school, raped and forced to marry the man who did it. Scared the same thing

Women often suffer the most from environmental degradation. A nonprofit in Colombia is trying to make their needs central to conservation. Sara Inés Lara, leader of Colombia-based bird conservation organization Fundación ProAves, got her first taste of conservation’s potential more than 30 years ago. She grew up in one of the most biodiverse places in the world,

With around a third of freshwater fish facing extinction, ichthyologists are racing to discover more—including the 200 species found last year—before they disappear. Continue reading my story about newly discovered freshwater species in 2021 on Scientific American.

A Zambian park North Luangwa has reversed the national extinction of black rhinos and brought the species back in a successful reintroduction project that is inspiring in many ways. Continue reading this story on Reasons to be Cheerful.

The saola is so elusive that no biologist has seen one in the wild. Now they are racing to find it, so they can save it Continue reading the fascinating story about one of the world’s most threatened land mammals on The Guardian.