Photos by: Ullas Karanth, Wildlife Conservation Society

This video from Time Magazine’s website features the conservationist and wildlife biologist, Alan Rabinowitz. Dr. Rabinowitz is the Director for Science and Exploration for the Bronx Zoo-based Wildlife Conservation Society. He recently established protected land in Myanmar (Southeast Asia) for tigers. Originally, he asked the Government of Myanmar for 2,500 square-miles, but they asked him to create an 8,452-square-mile (13,602-square-kilometer) tiger reserve in the rain-forested Hukawng Valley! Of course, he said yes.

This is no small task:

• It has taken over ten years to accomplish.
• Fighting groups within the region all had to agree on this common use of the land.
• Discoveries of gold brought thousands of people to the area, literally ripping apart the land with poisons to separate the gold from the earth – these poisons run directly into the river which the tigers drink.
• Similar to the DRC, Myanmar is a dense rainforest without the comforts of home.

Watch this amazing video and be inspired by Dr. Rabinowitz and his passion for saving all wildlife – and see some pretty cool wildlife ‘swing’ through the video!

Note: A good friend and bonobo cohort, Neil Brooks, just told me a wonderful and inspirational story that he heard Dr. Rabinowitz tell and I wanted to share it with you all. Here ’tis: Alan Rabinowitz was a horrible, horrible stutterer as a child and he was put into a class for “slow children:” Stutterers often don’t stutter when they sing or when they talk to animals. He was a terrible singer but loved animals who also could not speak. He promised them that if he ever found a voice he would give that voice to animals.

He certainly has done just that! Thanks for all that you do for the world, Dr. Rabinowitz.

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