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Field notes from the wild

Molly Helfend
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Field notes from wild places, where ecology, plant knowledge, travel, and the human psyche meet.

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Latest Issues

Why does symmetry exist in nature?

My latest piece for BBC Wildlife was published in the September issue on pg. 86 “Why does symmetry exist in nature?” (link to website article coming ASAP)

Here’s something I’ve written about on here. When I look at nature, I am fascinated...

4 days ago
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Gabon, home to the medicinal plant behind ibogaine, wants a fairer share of its global boom

My new piece (and photography) for Mongabay is out, and it is the one about benefit sharing. The short version: Gabon passed a law this year saying that if the world is going to profit off iboga, the people who have grown and protected it s...

11 days ago
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Before you call iboga a psychedelic

I have news.

I’m reporting with States of Mind, a new media company covering psychedelics, and my first story with them is live this week. It’s an exclusive from Gabon, and it has not run anywhere else.

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a month ago
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Posting online won't save the glacier

Quick side quest here from my Gabon reporting…

On August 26, a glacier collapsed off Langtang Lirung, one of the high peaks northeast of Kathmandu, and sent a wall of ice, rock and water down the valley toward the Nepal-China border. It bu...

a month ago
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"Now, it is not the devil"

This is the first article from my Pulitzer reporting in Gabon. I’ve been reporting the iboga story from every side: the economics and benefit-sharing fights for Mongabay and the Guardian, the elephants and the forest for National Geographic...

2 months ago
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    Journalist, ecopsychologist, and ethnobotanist reporting from the field on the science of remembering we are nature, while sharing ecological knowledge through earth, story, and adventurous travel.

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