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Category Archives: Press Coverage

DJDS in Bloomberg CityLab

9 November 2021 — Design

Bloomberg CityLab’s Zach Mortice talked to DJDS’s Deanna Van Buren about the challenges of transforming closed jails into spaces that benefit communities.

BPL op-ed in NY Daily News

24 September 2021 — Literature, Mission Driven, Op-ed

In 2020, hundreds of people across Brooklyn participated in 32 town halls as part of Brooklyn Public Library’s 28th Amendment Project. 

Razan Al Mubarak elected IUCN President

9 September 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

Razan Al Mubarak was elected President of IUCN this week. She is the second woman to lead the organization in its 75-year history and its first president from West Asia. Watch her acceptance speech.

Razan Al Mubarak in Mongabay’s “Conservation Players”

30 August 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

Razan Al Mubarak was interviewed by Mongabay editor-in-chief Rhett Butler as part of the news outlet’s Conservation Players. The series explores nature and sustainability issues and trends with notable conservation leaders from around the world such as The Nature Conservancy’s Jennifer MorrisWWF Africa’s Alice Ruhweza and Jinfeng Zhou of the China Biodiversity Conservation and Green […]

Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in Eco-Business

11 August 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an op-ed published in Eco-Business Razan Al Mubarak argues that addressing the biodiversity crisis requires long-term research field projects advocacy and education as well as institutional overhead like rent and salaries that can best be maintained through unrestricted monetary donations.

Mozilla YouTube Investigation in NBC

23 July 2021 — Internet, Mission Driven

YouTube’s controversial algorithm is recommending videos considered disturbing and hateful by users and which often violate the platform’s very own content policies, according to a crowdsourced investigation released today by Mozilla. The study also found that people in non-English speaking countries are far more likely to encounter videos they considered disturbing. Coverage of the study […]

Panthera in The Guardian

4 July 2021 — Environment

The Guardian’s Liam Miller takes an in-depth look at a program supported by Panthera that is using sheepdogs to keep pumas from preying on sheep in Patagonia.

Women conservationists spotlighted in World Atlas

3 May 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

World Atlas interviewed Razan Al Mubarak and four women who have received grants from the Mohamed Bin Zayed Conservation Fund for a special series of articles on the critical role that women play in biodiversity conservation.

Razan Al Mubarak op-ed in World Economic Forum

28 April 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an op-ed published today in the World Economic Forum’s Agenda Razan Al Mubarak discusses why it is essential that women are fully engaged and equally represented in biodiversity conservation — at the grassroots level and in the leadership of governments and NGOs.

Panthera on NPR’s Science Friday

16 April 2021 — Environment, Mission Driven

An innovative audio monitoring initiative that records noises such as gunshots and barking dogs is helping authorities track and curtail jaguar poachers.

On Air Fest Returns for 2021

12 April 2021 — Art, MUSIC

The Nod’s Brittany Luse & Eric Eddings (above), Fresh Air’s Terry Gross, mxmtoon, and Charlie Harding are among the headliners of On Air Fest 2021.

Object of Sound in Vanity Fair

6 April 2021 — Art, MUSIC

Sonos Radio’s Object of Sound with Hanif Abdurraqib continues to win raves. PKPR secured an awesome profile of Abdurraqib by Justine Goode of Vanity Fair.

Razan Al Mubarak profiled in Financial Times

13 February 2021 — Conservation, Mission Driven

In an interview with the Financial Times Razan Al Mubarak discusses why she believes the existential twin crises of climate change and biodiversity loss are the greatest challenges of our time.

Tiger Party

28 January 2021 — Internet, Online, Viral

An estimated one billion people worldwide watched the 2021 New Year ball drop and countdown in Times Square.

Panthera in Smithsonian Magazine

21 January 2021 — Environment

Smithsonian looks at a new study from Panthera providing evidence that gray wolves are primary drivers of the decline in puma populations in Northwest Wyoming.

Moleskine in Cultured Magazine

4 December 2020 — Lifestyle

For Cultured Magazine’s Instagram, PKPR set up a video tour of the studio of artist Dinara Mirtapilova, who created notebooks for the new Moleskine Collection.