Experiencing life as a Sea Shepherd
We get a glimpse of the working life as a frontline Sea Shepherd and get our own hands dirty, helping the crew to retrieve the countless illegal gillnets that haunt the Sea of Cortez.
Posted by Ed Harrison in Activism
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2018: A year in pictures
As the year comes to a close, we take a moment to reflect and share snippets from some of the biggest moments for Under the Skin.
Posted in Everyday Conservation
Trump vs Attenborough
Trumps denial of the ecological meltdown continues, as the great British naturalist tells UN summit leaders that the fate of the world is in their hands.
Posted in Everyday Conservation
Behind the lens with Stephanie Foote
Stephanie Foote is an emerging wildlife photographer on a mission; to use her camera as a tool to bring people closer to nature and highlight the threats to wildlife around the world. In this interview we talk about tracking foxes, hedgehog hardships and more.
Posted in Interviews
The Vanishing Vaquita: Witnessing a species fall out of existence
Today is International Save the Vaquita Day, an event to raise awareness and appreciation of the world’s most endangered marine mammal. But how has the Vaquita – the smallest and most elusive of the porpoise species – ended up on the brink of extinction?
Posted in Species Spotlight
An interview with Sea Shepherd founder Captain Paul Watson
As the organization celebrates 40-years of marine conservation, an Under the Skin reporter sat down with Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson, to discuss the pros and cons of direct action, and the key to saving our oceans. We talked about pirates, politics, and much more.
Posted in Interviews
Tracing Wallace’s Footsteps in Borneo
Another Escape editor Rachel Taylor recounts their experiences in Borneo, in the Malay Archipelago, which helped inspire our collaboration to create The Wallace Series.
Posted in Field Trips
The Darwin-Wallace Theory: The Theory of Natural Selection
A snippet of one of our articles created in collaboration with Another Escape as part of ‘The Wallace Series’, our curated selection of endangered animal prints that pay homage to the great British explorer, biologist and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace.
Posted in Nature School
Exploring the Museum of Biodiversity
We take a research trip to Vancouver's Beaty Biodiversity Museum. We let curiosity curate our experience as we discover Canada’s largest blue whale skeleton which is housed alongside 2.1 million other animal and plant specimens.
Posted in Field Trips