Happy Pride month everyone! Today, let’s celebrate 4 of our LGBTQIA+ community who have contributed so much to wildlife conservation around the world.

Frances Benjamin Johnston, Rachel Carson, Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftif, and David Mizejewski are people who should be celebrated. All have impacted world conservation while proudly out as part of the LGBTQIA+ community. Learn more about them and their legacies.

Francis Bemjamin Johnston’s self portrait “New Woman”

Johnston's photo of Bacon Chamber in Mammoth Cave, 1892

Rachel Carson's US Fish and Wildlife staff photo

Carson conducting field research

Dr. Clyde Wahrhaftif

Dr. Wahrhaftif's topographical map of Yosemite

David Mizejewski with a Burmese python

*images are not my own

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Rachel Carson’s Books:
The Sea Trilogy can be found here
Silent Spring can be found here
Always, Rachel can be found here