#98 Important Addenda and Corrigenda to Dispatch #97
Let’s start with the most important one, from Eric Tah at LAGA. Please if you are going to quote anything from my interview with him, use these corrections:
Dear Alex,
Thanks for giving me the opportunity to get this right before actually making it public, I have copied the areas that concern me and or LAGA for …Read More
#97: Mission Corrupted: Is WWF Cameroon Trafficking in Ivory and Beating Pygmies?
This investigation was made possible by a grant from the Leon Levy Foundation
Last November Survival International, the London-based tribal people’s advocacy group, ran a story on its Web site about a big-game hunter and trustee of World Wildlife South Africa named Peter Flack who went on a safari into the rain forest of Cameroon …Read More
#96, June 24, 2017: Reviews, Op-eds, and Interviews about “The Wasting of Borneo”
Washington Post review: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/where-headhunting-once-thrived-natives-now-gather-before-communal-televisions/2017/05/12/5cd11322-1003-11e7-9d5a-a83e627dc120_story.html?utm_term=.53aa3c6c11ea
Millbrook Independent review: http://www.themillbrookindependent.com/content/wasting-borneo-dispatches-vanishing-world
Op-ed on Yale’s Environment 360 site: http://e360.yale.edu/features/vanishing-borneo-saving-one-of-worlds-last-great-places-palm-oil
Interview on Mongabay: https://news.mongabay.com/2017/06/borneos-biocultural-holocaust-an-interview-with-author-alex-shoumatoff/
#95: A 1997 tour of the 35 Remaining Great Camps Tucked Away on Six Million Acres of Woods and Adirondacks Mountains of Upstate New York
Download the article here.
#94: In Search of the Source of AIDS, A Month-long Journey Across Africa in the Fall of 1987
Download the article here.
#93: Thoughts on the Future of the Planet for “Global Chorus”
Download excerpt from Global Chorus: 365 Voices on the Future of the Planet
#92: A Tribute To My Great Grammar School Teachers
Download “We Knew What Love Was”
#91, March 8, 2017: Mystery on the Savanna: The Last Giraffe
Smithsonian Magazine has published my piece on the giraffes, with beautiful photos by Melissa Groo.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/save-giraffes-put-our-necks-out-180962128/
#90, January 2, 2017: A Review of Nathan Farb’s Show, “The Russians”
Here’s a review of my dear friend photographer Nathan Farb’s show, “The Russians,”
#89: Louis Sarno, the Ba-Benjellé of the Central African Republic, and Their Beautiful Music
This is the full text of an introduction I wrote for the new, Trinity Press edition of Louis Sarno’s memoir, Song From The Forest. It was edited down, and stuff about other Pygmy groups and their music was taken out, so I am putting the original version here.
I long to get back to Yandoumbe and …Read More