A quote from @gabriellequerrard.bsky.social's advice on respecting and supporting places with culture and beauty you enjoy. (Facebook 9/29/25)

Your legacy here shouldn't be that you got to live in paradise. It should be that you helped ensure paradise remained for the people who make it what it is.

For Global Media and Information Literacy Week, we spotlight the release of Reporters Sans Frontières' #WorldPressFreedomIndex 2025. In the US, "The country’s 28-place drop in the social indicator reveals that the press operates in an increasingly hostile environment."

rsf.org/en/rsf-world...

Grand Canyon Lodge was a masterwork, finished in 1928, and the preserved plateau forest kept a unique habitat.

To help those affected, please donate to the Grand Canyon Unified School District or Grand Canyon Conservancy's Disaster Relief Fund. Thank you.

Photo: #GrandCanyon #NationalParkService

To celebrate National Ocean Month, I recall a conversation with Kaleo Wong, navigator for the Hokule'a. The Hawaiian sailing canoe travels the Pacific to teach young Hawaiians how to sail and navigate using traditional methods, and inspires broad respect and restoration of ancestral ocean knowledge.

For AAPI Heritage Month, we talk with SV Kwai boat owner Brad Ives and Captain Evy about what it's like to be constantly sailing between the Line Islands and Hawai'i. And about how it feels to be part of the lives of the island people and environment.
#AAPI #radionational #earshotpodcast #Hawai'i

For #AAPI Heritage Month, we're sailing the #LineIslands in #Kiribati. The #SVKwai is both a cargo ship and a rare taxi for the islanders.

Visit outervoices.org/blue-water-c... for more.

@cathyfitzg.bsky.social #ABCNationalRadio #ClaudiaTaranto #Hokule'a #JohnBiewen #BradIves #TerryCausey #earshot

For #PoetryMonth, we share LiveHopeLove and poet Kwame Dawes' reflections on difficult truths and moments of dazzling humanity in his journey with the dying and those nursing them in #Jamaica.

For the full story, visit outervoices.org/livehopelove/

#HIV #AIDS @pulitzercenter.bsky.social @prx.org

For #PoetryMonth, we revisit our award-winning LiveHopeLove, poet Kwame Dawes' exploration of #Jamaica's onslaught of #HIV/AIDS, its universal truths and impact on women in particular. A collaboration with @pulitzercenter.bsky.social and @prx.org

For more, visit outervoices.org/livehopelove/

Need a fun story? From our audio tour "Here, St. John," Faye Fredricks shares what happened when spider Anansi cajoled Tiger into a picnic at Trunk Bay. Visit the Trunk Bay Overlook stop at outervoices.org/here-st-john/ for more.

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From our audio tour, "Here, St. John," created in partnership with Friends of VI National Park, Paul Thomas explains how creating moorings was a huge win for St. John's coral reefs, but came at a great cost to ordinary St. Johnians. For more, visit outervoices.org/here-st-john/

@usvi.bsky.social

Eulita Jacobs shares memories of healing herself with plants and teas, recalling the days of self-reliance on the island. More on how local flora is interwoven with culture is in our audiotour, "Here, St. John," created in partnership with Friends of VI National Park: outervoices.org/here-st-john/

Outer Voices is proud of our work to promote the heritage, of the people of St. John, US Virgin Islands. Insight on the value of manners on the island comes from our audio tour, "Here, St. John," created in partnership with Friends of the VI National Park, full tour at outervoices.org/here-st-john/

Reporters Sans Frontieres calling out the Trump aid cuts as a danger to international journalism:

rsf.org/en/usa-trump...

Outer Voices is creating an audio tour of #GrandCanyon National Park! "Here, Grand Canyon" will amplify stories of people who call the Park home. Thanks to Grand Canyon Conservancy, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and National Park Foundation for support. More at the outervoices.org blog.