When There are No Words
When There are No Words — Witnessing death is a paralyzing event. Standing and staring at charred bodies, those with whom you have spent so many loving hours, gone.
HCVs are they the magic bullet to save orang-utans or alibis to destroy?
Can palm oil plantations and biodiversity coexist? Some are placing their hopes on HCVs - High Conservation Value areas to be the magic bullet.
RT13 Trifecta of Environmental Hope
The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil version RT13 wasn’t even over and folks were asking me, ‘well, what do you think?’
RSPO – How Round is your Roundtable?
How Round is your Roundtable? That’s one of the questions I hope to answer over the coming week at the RT13 - Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil conference. Is the Roundtable a metaphorical hope, or something more concrete?
In the Shadow of Legends
In the Shadow of Legends
thursday 23 april
I spent the last several days up in the transboundary area near Korup NP, where the Cameroon/Nigeria border is a leafy line in the forest, and where much more time than originally I thought was consumed by the bushmeat trade. That area is a non-stop flood of hunted meat traveling through villages, along rainforest roads and especially across the border into Nigeria...
saturday 18 april
Against all odds —
Heart, passion, courage, Rachel Hogan and her staff at Ape Action Africa are running Mefou Primate Park south of Yaoundé Cameroon against all odds — and for over 110 chimpanzees and 20 Western lowland gorillas beating the odds is their only insurance of a future
sunday 12 april
Access to the internet creates some of the strangest juxtapositions. This morning once I could log on—a three-hour hit and miss ordeal—an email from WWF-US was waiting. It announced, “The number of gorillas and chimpanzees in Central Africa continues to decline due to poaching, habitat loss and disease according to a new plan published by WWF, International Union for Conservation of Nature, Wildlife Conservation Society and partners.