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From Earth Endeavours comes BEJournal—your ticket to the wild side of storytelling. Grizzly bears hunt salmon; you hunt insight. Every issue drops powerful visuals, deep-dive conservation stories, and inspiration from wildlife projects across the globe, straight into your inbox. Our stories are crafted for hearts and minds that crave meaning, jaw-dropping imagery, and a splash of surprise curiosity. BEJournal is where teachers, students, nature fans, conservationists, creative pros, and adventure junkies mingle. Discover the ideas, initiatives, and odd little wonders that drive real-world change. Get nature’s fiercest newsletter, and join a community that’s passionate, clever, and ready to take action for the planet. (P.S. Yes, there’s a bear in this box. Don’t poke him, he’s busy reading BEJournal.)
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Guardians of the Great Bear
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Pacific Wild: Quiet Guardians For two decades, they've ended trophy hunts, battled logging in court, and woven First Nations wisdom into unbreakable stewardship—keeping chainsaws at bay, rivers alive, forests whole. Photo: © Ian McAllister / Pacific Wild On World Bear Day (March 23) many of us embraced the chance to pause for one of the wild world’s most enduring symbols. Bears have shaped ecosystems, inspired stories, and stood at the heart of cultures across...
READ POST7 Photo Show Strategies for Nature Photographers
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Your Seven Step Map For nature photographers who love exploring different ways of seeing, any event can become a field laboratory when you look with intention. You’re right to worry about wasting three days at any photo show. Hundreds of sessions. Very few skills that travel home with you. Even when your calendar is blank and wildlife talks flood the schedule, it’s easy to leave with a full notebook and an empty practice. This seven-step map is designed to send you...
READ POSTThe Art of Capturing Petrichor: Making Scent Visible in Photographs
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Making Scent Visible There’s a moment after rain when the world breathes differently. Soil exhales. Stones gleam. The air feels charged with memory. Scientists call that earthy aroma petrichor—a word that fuses the Greek petra (stone) and ichor (the fluid in the veins of gods). It’s the scent of rain meeting dry earth, a phenomenon at once chemical and soul-stirring. But what gives the air its signature perfume, and how could a photographer possibly make that scent...
READ POSTCare is NOT a detour from Entrepreneurship. It’s a Leadership Training Ground!
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Building the Bridge Back When we design capital, programs and policies for founders who also care, we don’t just “help women.” We unlock an entire category of leaders already expert in resilience, systems thinking and centered decision‑making. The number of women entrepreneurs has stalled. What are the barriers—and what’s the solution? Here are my thoughts on the missing piece: carers and the leadership potential we’re leaving untapped. The stall in women’s...
READ POSTThe Geometry of Vanishing
Earth Endeavours Newsletter The Geometry of Vanishing In reverence of International Polar Bear Day The Arctic is less a place than a temperature of awareness. It teaches the body to hear what silence conceals—wind arranging itself into meaning, distance folding into stillness. Somewhere across that pale expanse, a polar bear moves along the edge of what remains. From above, it resembles a slow flicker of motion stitched into the fabric of ice. The planet’s pulse runs quicker now. Sea ice,...
READ POSTDo you experience life in JPEG or capture it in RAW?
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Memory begins... In the moment our attention sharpens! Some mornings, mist hangs over the horizon like a half-kept secret. You can walk through it with your mind still half asleep, the world flattened into muted outlines — or you can pause and notice the texture: the way the moisture gathers on leaves, how distant birds dissolve into the distance. Memory begins here, in the moment our attention sharpens. Cognitive neuroscientist Charan Ranganath, director of the...
READ POSTHow I Accidentally Grew a Jungle with 10 Tiny Plants (No Green Thumb Required)
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Invite the Wild Indoors This is the story of how I turned my brown-thumbs green. Recently, Plants in a Boxsent over their Hydroponic Indoor Smart Garden plus their best selling Air Purifier Houseplant Pack for review. At the time, I was quietly convinced there would soon be 10 tiny funerals. Instead, what arrived was a compact, glowing ecosystem—a way to invite the wild indoors without wrecking the carpet or my confidence. Grow ornamental to edible, the hydroponic...
READ POSTAcoustic Vision: How to See in Sounds
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Acoustic Vision Imagine waking up one morning and deciding not to look at your neighborhood, but to listen to it instead. The city is still there—tram lines, trees, corner cafés—but the map that forms in your mind is made of echoes, engines, footsteps, croaks and trills. This is the essence of “Acoustic Vision”: treating sound as a fully fledged way of perceiving space, pattern and meaning, not as background noise but as a navigational sense in its own right. In a...
READ POSTBackyard Vigil: How Non-Linear Lives Capture Wildlife Stories
Earth Endeavours Newsletter Backyard Vigil Backyard fences, school ovals, clinic courtyards, sanctuary pens—these aren’t the places we usually picture when we think “wildlife photography.” Yet for carers, parents, teachers, shift workers, and anyone living a non-linear life, this is where most wild encounters actually happen. Crest in Show: this cockatoo's unscripted arrival on my fence reminds me that wildlife stories find us in the slivers of time between obligations. A radius-of-concern...
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