Stunning paintings of butterflies by two Australian teenage sisters, from an era when women had no formal artistic or scientific opportunity, which sparked one of the most heartening triumphs of conservation and rewilding a century after their death. Meet Harriet and Helena Scott.
Enormous mural by San Francisco art studio Ink Dwell spotlights the bittersweet beauty of the Monarch butterfly and the urgency of its protection.
Complement with environmental movement pioneer Rachel Carson’s stunning existential letter about the Monarchs.
Marianne Moore and the “crowning curio” – the heartening story of how a poem saved one of the world’s rarest and most majestic trees.
President Barack Obama is giving Sir David Attenborough a run for his money in this beautifully cinematic announcement for the White House’s new plan to protect Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge – the far northern part of Alaska known to Alaska Native communities as “The Sacred Place Where Life Begins.”
As Jon Mooallem put it in his exquisite meditation on the future of wildlife in America, “maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything.”
Parrots Over Puerto Rico — wonderful illustrated children’s book celebrates the spirit of conservation through the heartening story of one of Earth’s most beautiful bird species, an underdog of geopolitics and evolution.
Storytelling matters now. Emotion matters. Our imagination has become an ecological force.
Jon Mooallem’s fantastic TED talk about the strange story of the teddy bear and what it reveals about our relationship to animals, based on his even more fantastic book Wild Ones: A Sometimes Dismaying, Weirdly Reassuring Story About Looking at People Looking at Animals in America. Illustrations by the one and only Wendy MacNaughton.
Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living. Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts.
Reconstructionist Rachel Carson pioneered the modern environmental movement.
America’s management of its wild animals has evolved, or maybe devolved, into a surreal kind of performance art.
Leaving your kids a world without wild animals feels like a special tragedy.
Wild Ones – absolutely fantastic read about wilderness, legacy, and being human.
National Geographic and the World Wildlife Fund partner on this pause-giving motion graphics piece illustrating hidden energy waste through the case of your favorite cotton t-shirt.