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When scientists systematically review the plants, animals, and other life in a freshwater ecosystem like a lake or river, it is called a biological survey or biosurvey.

Biocultural restoration is the practice of revitalizing both ecological systems and the cultures of communities connected to those ecosystems.

The Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation has been landless ever since they suffered the worst massacre in U.S. history in 1863. Over 150 years later, the Tribe has purchased their ancestral homeland with a vision to return it back to nature.

With its growing population and wealth of wildlife, India is at the forefront of creative, community-based solutions to human-wildlife conflict.

About 21.5 million acres of the Western United States are nationally protected, and thousands are being managed or co-managed by Native American tribes reclaiming ancestral relationships with native plants and animals. It’s no surprise, then, that Wild Hope hit a rich vein of conservation stories grounded in the West. 

Pawpaws are in season, ocean waves gain rights, and salmon can swim freely in the Klamath

It hasn’t been easy to convert the fishing community of Gujarat, India to be whale shark allies — but the message is finally breaking through.

Morari Bapu is a spiritual leader who serves as an ambassador for the "Save the Whale Sharks" campaign in Gujarat, India.

Farukhkha Bloch is responsible for community outreach activities for the Wildlife Trust of India's Whale Shark Conservation Project.

To help India’s whale shark numbers recover, a program is now incentivizing fishermen to cut free the sharks from their nets — and offers to compensate the fishermen for the damages.