Next Up Africa and the Ivory Trade

Let’s travel some more. The Last Savanna will take you half-way around the globe from Molokai, Hawaii and to the southern hemisphere where Ian MacAdam takes on ivory poaching, which is exterminating our world’s largest land mammals — our elegant...

Islam and Women’s Rights

If you’ve spent time in a Moslem country you’ve seen the huge gulf between the west and Islam regarding women. It is unimaginable what the world must be like behind veil, a burka, a black gown that heats you like an oven under the Middle East sun. Or to have your...

Female Mutilation: Is it time to boycott Indonesia?

A little girl is pinned to the ground while adults saw off her genitals with a chunk of broken glass. Another newborn girl has her clitoris sliced off at a “Women’s Health Clinic”. The night before her arranged wedding, a fourteen-year-old girl is mutilated with a...