Hope is the Thing with Feathers
These messages of hope that come from conservation and birds are needed in these dark times.
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LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 9, 2022
Ganando y Perdiendo Tablitas
La devastación de La Moskitia está dañando la vida. Se ha perdido mucho, pero recientemente el gobierno hondureño está ayudando a los indíge
LoraKim Joyner
- May 31, 2022
Collaboration is Everywhere!
We explore multiple examples of collaboration among different species, including birds, invertebrates, fish, and humans.
LoraKim Joyner
- Jan 11, 2022
Parrots as a Gateway to Transformation
We can transform ourselves and our world with simple steps, yet challenging, as we imagine and act on our connection to other species.
LoraKim Joyner
- Sep 28, 2021
Mindful Birding: Embracing Death and Life
Birding helps us embrace the reality of life and death, and hence become better stewards of earth.
LoraKim Joyner
- Aug 6, 2021
Birding for Life
Watching birds is good for us and for all of life. Find out how you can save yourself and birds, and how to join us for our upcoming walks.
LoraKim Joyner
- May 18, 2021
Wings Set Us Free
Iota in November 2020 destroyed this village, and the parrot rangers there persisted, protecting parrots whose wings set us free.
LoraKim Joyner
- Jan 25, 2021
Parrot Conservationists' Spirits Live On in Us
Parrot conservationists remind me of Wendell Berry whose writings say to me, “If we don’t know where we are, we don’t know who we are.”
LoraKim Joyner
- Dec 28, 2020
Be a Farmer of the Future
Please help spread this message – that ordinary people, like you and me, can produce extraordinary results in extraordinary times
LoraKim Joyner
- Nov 17, 2020
Hope in Hard Times
Just when it seems that we have come through one hard time, along comes another, and another. How is hope possible? Together!
LoraKim Joyner
- Sep 29, 2020
Packing a Spiritual Go-bag in Hard Times
What if you could let go of all expectations of what life should be like, and could just travel lightly into the future?
LoraKim Joyner
- Apr 8, 2020
Hope is the Thing with Feathers
Yes, we need birds in this time of a pandemic, and the many other disasters happening to life on earth. They foster biodiversity and help ea
LoraKim Joyner
- Mar 24, 2020
Parrot Conservation in Time of Covid-19
Though it may seem like things have stopped throughout the world, those who carry out essential services are still taking risks to care for
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Nov 5, 2019
Save a Species by Failing, and Admitting It
The greatest cause of conservation project failure was interpersonal relations, not external factors like politics, corruption, and violence
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Sep 5, 2019
Burning Love: A Parrot Shows How to Put Out Fires of Human Desire
When in Paraguay over the last 3 weeks, it was the parrot breeding season. I was outside for 12 days, all day, and nearly every day I was p
by Rev. Dr. LoraKim Joyner
- Jun 26, 2019
The Messenger Came to Tell Us
I work with an amazing and gifted man, Colum Muccio, Administrative and Development Director of ARCAS in Guatemala. Without his help our yel
by Gail Koelln
- May 8, 2019
Making Time to Despair...and to Hope
Yesterday morning I freaked out. It doesn’t happen often, but it happens. I stumbled upon the headline, “UN Warns That 1 Million Species Ris
From the field, our Nurture Nature Program, and our staff!
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