The dolphin you’re about to see isn’t real, but the plight of these mammals is. There are thousands of cetaceans living in captivity. In confined spaces, they experience stress, anxiety, and depression, which can lead to self-harming behaviour and death. Though their distress has been widely publ...

David Ramsden had always been interested in flight. As a child, he’d gaze up at the clouds, marvel at flying creatures, and keep an eye out for airplanes overhead. That interest developed into a passion for birds, barn owls in particular. Today, Ramsden is the head of conservation for The Barn Ow...

Can digital gaming reset the devastation we’ve inflicted on the natural world? Gautam Shah believes so. He’s a game developer creating virtual experiences for people to protect the Earth and learn about real-life conservation stories. “It’s important for people to see conservation as accessible i...

Forest engineer Tatiana Espinosa leads the Arbio Peru project , a proposal for forest conservation in one of the most deforested regions in the country, which has earned her international recognition.

Shark populations have declined by more than 90% due to overfishing and the demand for their fins. Stefanie Brendl fell in love with sharks, founding Shark Allies, a conservation organisation that aims to put an end to the shark fin trade.

Pascal van Erp and his team hunt down lost fishing nets that haunt our oceans, not only cleaning our seas but turning the wasted nets into materials that can be used to make clothes!

Lori Marino is the founder of the Whale Sanctuary Project. This is the first organisation to focus on creating seaside sanctuaries in North America for dolphins and beluga whales from entertainment facilities.

Gab Mejia is a conservation photographer and mountaineer on the pursuit to climb and explore the mountains of the world, and document the environmental issues of wetlands with the ultimate goal to reach the 7 summits to inspire the youth to explore these natural spaces and aim to conserve and pro...

With hardly anyone advocating for sun bears Dr Wong has dedicated his life to the plight and protection of these gentle giants.

Leif established The Orangutan Project that has been working to save the orangutan for the past 20 years.

After discovering the toxic waste littered in our seas, Emily created eXXpedition, an all-female voyage exploring the impact of plastic and toxic pollution in our oceans.

Animals in Costa Rica come to Leslie Howle on the brink of death, and leave with a new lease on life. Howle is the founder of Toucan Rescue Ranch, a rescue, rehabilitation and release organisation. Founded in 2004, it began solely for the care of toucans. But when wildlife authorities noticed the...

Growing up, Julian Javor dreamed of being a pilot and flying people through the clouds. Today, he’s achieved his goal with one unusual difference - his passengers are the four-legged kind. Javor is the chief rescue pilot for Pet Rescue Pilots, a non-profit organisation he founded in 2019. He flie...

Danae is the cheerleader that all bugs want on their side. She reminds us bugs are worthy and that life without them would lead to a dysfunctional ecosystem.

In Australia, over three million wallabies and kangaroos are culled every year. This practice is legal as the government deems wallaby and kangaroo meat and hides a viable commercial product, but the tight regulations around culling are not always followed. The animals and their joeys are often l...

Jo-Anne McArthur photographs invisible animals. The ones you don’t see roaming in the wild, or gambolling in your backyard, but the ones on our plates or lining our clothing. “We fail to see them in our lives, yet they are all around us,” McArthur says. She founded We Animals Media in 2003 to exp...

"There are many wild things in Texas. But none as spectacular as a “batnado”, which is exactly what it sounds like - a tornado of bats. This natural phenomenon is unlike anything else, and can be witnessed at the Bracken Cave Preserve outside San Antonio. This chamber plays host to over 20 millio...

Whether it's being mauled by a cheetah or collapsing mid-assignment in an unfenced area patrolled by lions, Shannon Wild won’t stop at anything to protect wildlife.

Sloths have a reputation for being slow and lazy. Yet very little is known about the lives they lead. “I realised there wasn’t enough scientific data related to sloths and this impacted our ability to conserve them and care for them,” Rebecca Cliffe says. She’s the founder and director of The Slo...

What do you do when there’s a leopard on your roof? In parts of India, this isn’t unusual. As the human population increases and more space is required for development, wildlife such as elephants, leopards, and tigers now have to compete with people for vital resources. When animals enter residen...

Meet the guardian of Asia’s bears. She changed their lives by not turning a blind eye to the cruelty they were under.

Hundreds of rhinos are poached every year for their horns. But in May 2015, one animal made headlines for the brutal condition in which poachers left her. Her face mauled, her bones fractured and exposed, the white rhino had almost no chance. But the Saving the Survivors team of vets were determi...

Christine Figgener hides sea turtle eggs for a living. It’s an unusual but crucial job for the marine biologist, who works to protect these reptiles in Costa Rica. On top of the numerous environmental challenges they face, sea turtles are in a battle against illegal poaching. To reduce the number...

Anita Krajnc has dedicated her life to saving pigs from slaughter. She started Toronto Pig Save with other activists in 2010. As part of its advocacy, the non-profit organisation hosts public vigils in Canada to highlight the rights of farm animals as sentient beings. “Our idea was that everyone ...