Maria Fotopoulos

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.

Conceptualized and developed 50th Anniversary of Earth Day campaign with website and social media components.

“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in Aldo Leopold’s 1949 A Sand County Almanac, a seminal work in the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.

After ten years of working on the front lines fighting poaching in Africa, Australian Damien Mander has thought a lot about best practices for protecting wildlife in the face of the Sixth Extinction. The International Anti-Poaching Foundation (IAPF) founder had approached the work of saving rhinos from extinction with a “fairly militant approach,” he’ll tell you.

“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in 1949 in Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac,” which influenced the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.

Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area from protection under the Endangered Species Act. When listed in 1975 as threatened w...

“The National Parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.” These words were published in 1949 in Aldo Leopold’s “A Sand County Almanac,” which influenced the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone area from protection under the Endangered Species Act. When listed in 1975 as threatened w...

“The national parks do not suffice as a means of perpetuating the larger carnivores; witness the precarious status of the grizzly bear.”
These words were published in 1949 in ecologist Aldo Leopold’s book, A Sand County Almanac, one of the significant literary contributions to the birth of the modern environmental movement. Seventy years later, the insight remains true.
Last year, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service removed grizzly bears in the greater Yellowstone National Park area from the pro...

If the many threatened and endangered animals around the world could speak English, right about now they'd be shouting, "Drain the swamp!" D.C. shenanigans targeting those who cannot speak for themselves are scandalous, with the latest outrage the reversal of the reinstatement of the ban on the importation of animal "trophies" - body parts - from African elephants and other wildlife in Zambia and Zimbabwe.Confusing? Extremely.In November 2017, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) announced li...

President Donald Trump recently made headlines when he said he would not allow trophies from legal elephant hunts to be imported into the United States. Although this was the right move, it isn’t enough to stop elephants from being slaughtered into extinction.
Amazing creatures with a life expectancy of 60 to 70 years, African elephants lead complex emotional and social lives. They carry their babies for two years — the longest gestation of any mammal. Their calves then nurse for several year...

Commentary on loss of wild cheetahs, facing possibility of extinction in 15 years.