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  • Popular culture and the outdoors

    Ralph Maughan

    Being in style for the outdoors without ever going there- Roger Phillips has a commentary in the Idaho Statesman how pop culture affects outdoors activity styles and the activities themselves.  He is hardly the first to notice this, but it has not come up on the Wildlife News much.  Phillips uses the example of the…

  • Making a wildlife film, especially of carnivores in real action, is not easy

    Ralph Maughan

    The days of Disney-like wildlife film documentaries may be over- Better equipment (that means digital) and perhaps a new breed of wildlife cinematographers are serving to make what the public sees more real. This is very hard because real might not look realistic to audiences raised on special effects. Cinematographers also depend on a number of…

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‎”At some point we must draw a line across the ground of our home and our being, drive a spear into the land and say to the bulldozers, earthmovers, government and corporations, “thus far and no further.” If we do not, we shall later feel, instead of pride, the regret of Thoreau, that good but overly-bookish man, who wrote, near the end of his life, “If I repent of anything it is likely to be my good behaviour.”

Edward Abbey

“The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.”

Jim Fowler

“Our forests offer much more than just beautiful landscapes and wildlife. Each one has a different story to tell.”

Raveena Tandon

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