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Atewa Till Eternity
Ten musicians walk into a forest
Atewa Forest: A Wild Wonderland
In his recent book, Half Earth: Our Planet’s Fight for Life, acclaimed biologist and author E.O. Wilson lists Ghana’s Atewa Forest as one of the 38 most important places on Earth that should be set aside for nature’s benefit. The forest is teeming with life, home to at least 50 mammal species, more than 1,000 species […]
Atewa Forest: Ghana’s Life Source
Providing drinking water for 5 million
Devil Ark Breeds Its 300th Tasmanian Devil
In the remote Barrington Tops National Park of Australia’s New South Wales, a small conservation hero burrows in her den. Angel the Tasmanian Devil has a full house in her pouch, with four joeys to nurse, groom and protect. These may seem like routine activities for a marsupial mom, but they’re a very big deal now […]
Trouble In Paradise: The World’s Islands Are Home To Extraordinary Species…And Face Alarming Extinction Rates
Close your eyes and picture yourself on your favorite island. Did you immediately start breathing a little easier? Whether you imagined dipping your toes into warm, turquoise waters or gazing out over a cold, rocky coast, islands evoke feelings of wonder and relaxation. Their remoteness and rugged beauty promote physical and mental escape. Interesting things […]
Plotting A Future For The Wildlife Of Redonda Island
By Mike Appleton, GWC’s manager of protected area management It’s not often in conservation that we get to see the immediate results of our efforts. It usually takes years, if not generations, to begin to see signs that species and habitats are recovering because of our actions. This is partly what made my recent trip […]
Forests That Drink From The Clouds
Still, humid air alive with the chatter of monkeys and the calls of colorful birds under a towering, tangled canopy. We are all familiar with the image of the rainforest. Vast expanses of green cloaking lowland areas in the tropics, rainforests tend to vary little in temperature and humidity. But as we scale mountains rising […]
A Q&A With Ben Thorp Brown, Artist For Christie’s Global Wildlife Conservation Benefit
By Haley Mellin, artist and conservationist Artist Ben Thorp Brown’s work addresses embodied experience, perception, and memory. Working across video, sculpture, performance, his projects consider the effects of ongoing economic, environmental, and technological change. This includes his Academic Forms with Rocks, which Thorp Brown generously contributed to Christie’s New York Post-War to Present Auction in support of the purchase and conservation […]
A Q&A With Tiffany Bozic, Artist For Christie’s Global Wildlife Conservation Benefit
Tiffany Bozic has donated a painting to be auctioned at our 2018 Global Wildlife Conservation benefit at Christie’s at Rockefeller Center in New York City. We will use these funds to purchase and preserve land from one of the last unprotected cloud forests in the Americas. Tiffany’s paintings and sketches layer highly emotional, surreal metaphorical themes onto traditional nature […]
A Q&A With Zaria Forman, Artist For Christie’s Global Wildlife Conservation Benefit
Zaria Forman is one of the artists participating in the Global Wildlife Conservation benefit with Christie’s. The funds and matching funds generated from this drawing will purchase and preserve land from one of the last unprotected cloud forests in the Americas. Zaria creates incredible pastel drawings of remote landscapes, many in the Arctic and Antarctica, to document the effects […]