Chase, a conservation biologist and founder of Elephants Without Borders, this year began what will become the most extensive count of great mammals on the African continent ever.
Important conservation efforts continue to founder because of their perceived employment effects.
"We live in a world where every single one of the more than 500 television episodes of 'The Simpsons' has a well-researched Wikipedia article devoted to it, but by comparison there is practically no information about many of the greatest artworks of the 20thcentury," said Richard McCoy, a member of the conservation group and a founder of WikiProject Public Art.
Alex Dehgan, founder of Conservation X Labs, is just one of many examples.
According to Edwin Wiek, founder of conservation NGO Wildlife Friends Foundation Thailand, which rescues abused elephants, such deadly incidents almost exclusively involve male elephants being forced to work when they are in no state to do so.
Peter Seligmann is the chairman, CEO and co-founder of Conservation International The supply chain hub is funded by fairtrade foundation.
"The ecological significance of this bird is huge," says Ramki Sreenivasan, wildlife photographer and co-founder of Conservation India, which runs several education centres in the villages.
These photographs provide the researchers and villagers with new information about how orangutans move through the forest, explains Serge Wich, professor in primate biology and co-founder of Conservation Drones, which aims to protect the animals and influence policymakers about conservation.
The Colorado Mountain Club was founded in 1912 and has since grown into one of the West's leading outdoors sports and conservation clubs, but its founders had perhaps not anticipated that Denver, where most of its more than 8,000 members reside, would one day emerge as a center for young singles on the prowl.
"They plan on continuing this for at least 20 years," McAllister, the director and co-founder of conservation organization Pacific Wild, pointed out.
"They plan on continuing this for at least 20 years," McAllister, director and co-founder of conservation organization Pacific Wild, pointed out.
