Archives: Profiles
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Rios Pacheco
Rios Pacheco is Northwest Shoshone and Kewa Pueblo. He is a Tribal Elder in the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation and serves as the Tribe’s Cultural Analyst and Advisor.
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Brad Parry
Brad Parry has served as the Vice Chairman for the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation Tribal Council since 2017. He is employed by the Tribe as the Natural Resources Officer.
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Acoustic Monitoring
Passive acoustic monitoring — often simply called acoustic monitoring — is a tool used by ecologists and conservationists to study wildlife in their natural environment.
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Dustin Partridge, Ph.D.
Dr. Dustin Partridge is the Director of Conservation and Science at NYC Bird Alliance (formerly NYC Audubon), a nonprofit that protects wild birds and their habitats in New York City.
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Brian Evans, Ph.D.
Brian Evans is a migratory bird ecologist at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, which studies and educates the public on the ecology of migratory birds.
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Sara Hallager
Sara Hallager serves as curator of birds at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute.
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India’s Innovative Solutions to Human-Wildlife Conflict
With its growing population and wealth of wildlife, India is at the forefront of creative, community-based solutions to human-wildlife conflict.
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The Atlantic Forest: Brazil’s Unsung Biodiversity Hotspot
Brazil's Atlantic Forest is often shadowed by the vast Amazon, but it is just as biodiverse and at greater risk of vanishing without conservation action.
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Why Hawai’i is a Hotspot for Innovative Conservation
The Hawaiian archipelago is a tropical volcanic island chain with high biodiversity on land and in the surrounding waters of the Pacific Ocean. The mountainous terrain is home to many species found nowhere else on Earth, including 5000 insect species, 1000 plant species, 145 fish species, and 60 bird species. But Hawai’i’s wildlife has been…
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The History of Conservation in the Western United States
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.
