by April Wendling | Aug 28, 2024 | Born to be Wild
By Ren Lashley Content advisory: the following article contains graphic descriptions and images of animal cruelty. It is April 8, 2022, the first day of the Canadian seal hunt, and the ice teems with death. Hundreds of men scatter along the snowbanks with weapons in...
by April Wendling | Sep 13, 2022 | Born to be Wild
By Lauren Brunk Harsh wind nipped at my bare hand as I carefully unfolded the mist nets at Homer Lake, a forest preserve a dozen miles east of the U of I campus. We unfolded a collection of three nets around bird feeders. Tall trees surrounding us hosted a plethora of...
by Tony Mancuso | Sep 24, 2021 | Born to be Wild, Suburban Warfare
By Olivia Grubisich On an acre of land in a quiet neighborhood where mature oaks shadow the road, my house acts as a buffer between the sidewalks of suburbia and the adjacent forest preserve. This January morning, the yard looks peaceful under a blanket of white...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 29, 2019 | Born to be Wild
By Haley Ware It’s no secret the ivory trade has been historically responsible for the brutal poaching of African elephants. After China banned all trade in ivory at the beginning of 2018, conservationists hoped for decreases in demand for ivory, and life has indeed...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 28, 2019 | Born to be Wild
By April Wendling In an abandoned village in northern Ukraine, not far from the town of Pripyat, Mother Nature has taken back what was once hers. At the entrance, like many other empty villages in the area, a stone is painted with the town name and the number of...
by Tony Mancuso | Jul 18, 2019 | Born to be Wild
By Amber Volmer I don’t remember the first time I heard the eerie, piercing yips of the coyote. Maybe it was when my father built a chicken coop at the end of our backyard near the wood line. I was charged with collecting eggs, their warm, hay-crusted surfaces...
