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Spring 2021

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Mpala (center) with her friends enjoying some mud hole fun at northern Kenya's Reteti Elephant Sanctuary. Samburu John Nkuus Leripe watches the sun rise over the Mathews Range in northern Kenya's Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy. is resilient, but that we have to give it a chance to succeed. Now the question is, how do we turn these incredible stories of success into a solution to the larger problem—the long-term survival of all endangered species, as well as the preservation of the ecosystems that sustain them? Today, nearly one million species are in danger of extinction due to exploitation, the climate emergency and habitat degradation. Our own health and destiny is intricately connected to these ancient species. Our fates are linked; without rhinos and elephants and other wildlife we suffer more than just a decline in the health of an ecosystem of which we are a part. We, and future generations, suffer a loss of imagination, a loss of wonder, a loss of beautiful possibilities. What happens next is in all of our hands. Our actions today will determine the future for generations after us. Nature is resilient if we allow it to be, and we owe it to future generations to give it that chance. —Ami Vitale BAL HARBOUR 187

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