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Four adults in farmers clothes, their faces lit, look up at a foreboding figure in a mask
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Jeff Liang
The allegory that is 'Animal Farm' examines the perils of unchecked power and privilege, the use of words as a political weapon, and revolutions that erode into regimes not unlike those they overthrew.

UCSB theater students take on Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,’ a fable that still bites

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Elephant bones scattered on the savannah

The Circle of Life

‘Passing for Perfect’
Autumn sorghum harvests in the Karamoja region of Uganda

Sending Out an SOS

No Silver Bullet
Elephants at a watering hole at Mpala Research Centre in Laikipia County, Kenya

Around the Watering Hole

Saving the Amazon

To Flee or Not to Flee