I am a native Jamaican who have made Florida my second home. My passionate for nature and wildlife has lead me to hire myself and start a new online magazine that combine commerce, arts, conservation and nature-based travel. I believe Florida has the opportunity to inspire and educate both locals and travelers how to protect and preserve it's quality of life. Art & Gator online magazine will be the first media to challenge Florida's art and affluent community to be the voice for the environment — national treasure "The Everglades" Compliments to the Environment, George

Lots of things bother me about the earth. One of them is Global Warming. Reptiles, birds, and mammals are disappearing from the earth’s surface and ground. Warmer oceans and rivers are making it difficult for fish like salmon who need cold water for higher oxygen. Droughts that may happen more often with global warming can dry up lakes that amphibians depend on for breeding. Leatherback turtles are not able to lay eggs on the warm sand. All of these examples should motivate you to go out and help!

The joy I've always carried in my heart naturally, I believe, is a combined blessing of a wonderful blend of gifts from early on. I was given incredible love, raised in the midst of both forest and city, encouraged to create my own entertainment, had great genes passed on, enough travel to keep me intrigued, and provided the opportunity to see the beauties of my spiritual upbringing being absolutely reflected in Mother Nature. Without the opportunity to see, on a continual basis, that natural life all around me worked in such incredible whole, healthy, and balanced ways to perpetuate it's own glorious life, I wouldn't currently have the resilience I have in every challenge I face. Aside from the gorgeous blessings of a beautiful scene, natural feature, or wondrous day, I inherently know the heart of life as good thanks to a lifetime of experiencing nature as a growing child. I'm so grateful to have been given the exposure, appreciation, and knowledge that I inherited the right and duty to care for her as she cares for me. I'm enjoying very much, working with children as a pied piper to invite them to know and love our hostess here, as I develop children's books to bring a love and reverence for nature to any and all children I can. My friend Samson and his friends, creatures and elements of nature, are here to entice children in their love of nature in the form of the Samson's Nature Adventure Series, available at my website seeitso.com. I don't mean to just sneak in a plug, I mean to offer the opportunity to anyone who might want a sweet and gorgeous way to start the conversation with a child as to the joys of what our relationship and responsibility is with our gorgeous Earth.

I've always loved a nice woodland walk and stopped to smell the flowers, but the older I get, the MORE I appreciate the natural beauty of the outdoors. Also, I see how big business, PA government, politics and the fuel industry all seem extraordinarily eager to sacrifice this natural beauty and wildlife habitat for their own personal gain. Sadly, this doesnt alarm many of my fellow citizens, as our Environment and natural surroundings are all too often taken for granted---- until they are gone forever. Even with the apathetic public, once they discover that there are fewer and fewer areas for them to quad , hunt , trap and fish--then even these people wake up. I totally support groups like the Nature Conservancy that support protection of our so vulnerable sensitve natural areas and wildlife habitats.

Born and raised in Idaho. I am volunteer for TNC and other organizations such as Idaho Rivers United. I am proud to be a TNC member and volunteer. I love the pretty pictures that TNC shares, in fact I take some of them, but my real love is being involved with the habitat improvement and conservation actions that we put on the ground that will benefit my grand children. I have been involved with agriculture all my life. Many family farmers and ranchers are the original conservationists and are deeply tied to the land and nature and a pet peeve I have is the broad brush that some wield to paint all agriculture as bad for the environment. Give me cattle grazing a meadow with sage grouse over a paved parking lot any day.

A lifelong Alaskan, I deeply value wild places and the many resources and benefits they provide. In Alaska we still have the opportunity to maintain and conserve the thriving and vital natural systems that support our communities and ways of life. Taking advantage of this opportunity to do it right is extremely important to me. I'm excited about new partnerships and projects that link people and nature in developing economically viable, ecologically sustainable and socially satisfying ways of life.

I'm proud of Orange County in Southern California, especially Fullerton, Calif. It has a state university and a community college. Right next to the DMV there is a small skate park that also has indoor racquetball courts that you can use for a small fee. I think they should rename the city 'Collegetown'.