Maria Fotopoulos

Commentary about the high number of animal deaths on U.S. roads.

A look at California's population growth since 1950, and the impacts. Produced for Californians for Population Stabilization.

Global ecologist and president of the Dancing Star Foundation talked about pandemics just as the China virus was generating fear in the U.S. in March 2020.

Wildlife populations have plummeted 69 percent since 1970. WWF ignores the elephant in the room.

Climate change cultists are today's eco-terrorists.

Millions of animals die on U.S. roads every year. Reductions in nighttime driving would stem future senseless loss of wildlife.

Nine captive wolves released into the North Carolina wild.

Billionaire Nic Berggruen, who earned his wealth through real estate development, now is working to establish himself as a philosopher, thinker and benefactor. He intends to build a "think tank" in Southern California on some of the last remaining wild land in Los Angeles.

A recommended read to help kids appreciate the world of big cats is “The Cat That Changed America” by Tony Lee Moral. In this fictionalized account of the real and famous California cougar, P22, Moral chronicles the cougar’s adventures starting with his birth, and that of his brother, and time with Mom in the Santa Monica Mountains, meeting neighbors, including the raccoon, woodpecker, mockingbird, skunk (Mom advises P22 to “stay away”) and opossum, from whom he learns a hard truth.

While we have a vast, impressive array of open spaces and public protected spaces in the U.S., they are islands. We are missing connectivity for animals to move.

Let’s do more to ensure that our children have the educational underpinnings to understanding how essential all wild things are for all of us and our one planet.

A coloring book I had as a child about America’s national parks instilled a desire to visit all of our country’s parks -- a goal still in process -- and was the seed for a commitment to keeping wild things wild.

Roadmap to $20 Million
Jake McKerrigan hadn’t put much stock in anything his father had to say for decades. As a child, Jake had called out the senior McKerrigan for idiocy in thinking when the old man said Oral Roberts University in Oklahoma was going to be “bigger than Harvard.”
Feelings for his father turned to full-on contempt as the teenage Jake toiled full-time in sweltering summers in the family business, a plumbing and air conditioning truck, and in freezing midwestern winters after s...

With the tremendous loss of wildlife in just a few decades, it's essential schools include in the curriculum studies on the value of the natural world and biodiversity to engender a love and appreciation for the world’s wildlife, and the role each species plays in keeping Earth in balance.

World Population Day, created by the United Nations “to focus attention on the urgency and importance of population issues,” came and passed on July 11.