The Alongside Wildlife Foundation Outreach Award recognizes effective and innovative science communicators that go above and beyond to engage and educate non-scientists about wildlife and conservation. We created this award because everyone agrees this kind of outreach is important, but there are few mechanisms to recognize and reward the people actually...

Do you  Agree with The Alongside Wildlife Foundation's mission of promoting research and outreach that helps us share landscapes with wildlife? Appreciate that we awarded over $10,000 to wildlife conservation projects around the world in 2018 (and plan on doing it again in 2019)? But Haven't quite pulled the trigger to join our...

Travel to Antarctica takes about four days from leaving your house to first sight of land. As a photographer traveling there for the first time, my interest was in the colors of the ice, the stark monochromatic landscape, and the sheer vastness of the continent. I was looking forward to this backdrop to photograph penguins, seals, and whales, but I...

Part I, II, and III. More than an experiment Sierra Nevada Yellow-legged Frog (Rana sierrae). Photo courtesy Gary Nafis In the 1990s, researchers embarked on an ambitious plan to restore Mountain Yellow-legged Frogs to California’s highest lakes. The Mountain Yellow-legged Frog (now split into two species) was once the most...

Across the globe there is a tendency for people to view snakes in a negative light, a fear born of unfamiliarity. It is difficult to imagine a scenario where snakes are protected from threats, like habitat loss and persecution, without countering innate anti-snake bias. As we learn about snakes, we can present them in more relatable ways. Questions...

By Sean Graham  Maybe sparrow you should waitThe hawks alight till morningYou'll never pass beyond the gateIf you don't hear my warning Notes are hung so effortlessWith the rise and fall of sparrow's breastIt's a drowning dive and back to the chorus La di da di da di da —Neko Case             We walked in two expanding arcs, twelve...