A visit to Mount Sagyaan

Uri Shanas, TiME’s founder, visited one of the threatened habitats awaiting your vote, Mount Sagyaan, and shares his experience. Let me try to describe the amazing time my wife, Irit, and I had with the Higa-onon people of Mount Sagyaan. Upon arrival at the airport on Mindanao Island, we met Datu Lanelio T. Sangcoan, one […]

People of the living mountains

Giant Golden-Crowned Flying Fox (Acerodon jubatus)

  “The forest is life,” Datu Lanelio T. Sangcoan told me over and over throughout our conversation. Datu represents the Higa-onon people, an Indigenous people in the Philippines whose sacred forest is among the threatened habitats you can protect in TiME’s 2025 campaign. When I tried asking him why is the forest life, he seemed […]

“We all depend on each other to overcome adversity”

Tony Hiss: "Behind This is My Earth there’s a beautiful and powerful idea: We all depend on each other to overcome adversity"

We had the privilege to talk to Tony Hiss, the author of fifteen books, including the award-winning The Experience of Place. He was a staff writer at The New Yorker for more than thirty years, was a visiting scholar at New York University for twenty-five years, and has lectured around the world.