Voices

Collective action helps alleviate climate anxiety, as my class found following Hurricane Helene. It’s also helping our community to recover.

Names matter. When we fear something, it becomes psychologically easier to withhold empathy for it or, worse, kill it. Nobody feels sorry for the devil.

“Collectors” threaten these tiny bats, whose big ears can’t protect them from the humans loving them to death.

The historic act, which recognized a river as a legal entity, deliberately moves away from litigation and places community decision-making at its center.

Animals, plants, and fungi depend on this humble tree, but its future — and theirs — is all but certain.

Local communities strive to protect local forests and headwaters that include some of the Amazon River’s most important water sources.

These butterflies are no longer present in their namesake range, but a collaboration aims to bring them back.

For this national symbol of New Caledonia and one-of-a-kind avian species, time may be running short.

We don’t always recognize the wild plants and animals living in our concrete jungles. But when we go looking for them, we realize how much there is to protect.

This elusive predator’s stripes act as camouflage, but that’s not enough to protect them from poachers and habitat loss.