“Twenty some years ago David Milarch hovered above the bed, looking down at his motionless body. Years of alcoholism had booted him out of his life. An inexplicable cosmic commandment would return him to it. His improbable charge? To clone the world’s champion trees – the giants that had survived millennia and would be unvanquished by…

Text from an article Hansjörg Wyss wrote for The Guardian Newspaper and get across his passion.  Ref: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/dec/19/america-public-lands-spirit-risk-conservation-environment There is no better place from which to take measure of our wild planet and to draw hope from humanity than the summit of a mountain. It was the view from Pikes Peak, after all, that inspired Katharine Lee…

Could planting trees save the world’s largest river island? A man has made it his life’s mission to help save the world’s largest river island, Majuli, from erosion by planting trees. Over several decades Jadav Payeng, known as the Forest Man of India, has turned a barren area into a forest larger than New York’s…

Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative The Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative (Y2Y) is a joint Canada-U.S. not-for-profit organization that connects and protects habitat from Yellowstone to Yukon so people and nature can thrive. We are the only organization dedicated to securing the long-term ecological health of this entire region. We take a scientific and collaborative approach to conservation,…

“When we first started this, it never crossed my mind we would still be litigating the rule 16 years later.” Tom Waldo