Dispatch Obscura

Robert Louis Stevenson

Saving Africa’s endangered animals relies so much on eco-tourism and safaris... on shooting animals with a camera instead of a gun. Less tourism means hunters become the biggest source of income for conservation, which commodifies wild animals as more valuable dead than living.

Afternoon hikes in Black Rock Forest, Upstate New York. Dappled sunlight and vibrant green lessons about conserving our fragile ecosystems. Fall memories. Poison ivy be damned.