2012 Vogue Paris 'La Sauvage' Aligns With Faye Cuevas + Damien Mander Drive For Women Rangers In Africa

2012 Vogue Paris 'La Sauvage' Aligns With Faye Cuevas + Damien Mander Drive For Women Rangers In Africa

AOC is always interested in how fierce women are portrayed in fashion and pop culture. We dive into the archives for this Vogue Paris June/July 2012 editorial ‘La Sauvage’. Model Karmen Pedaru is styled by Geraldine Saglio in animal prints and other wild woman looks lensed by Hans Feurer.

The editorial brings to mind recent GlamTribal Blog posts about elephant conservation in Africa. We checked back in with Faye Cuevas, a former military intelligence expert now a key, front-line leader in Kenya’s anti-poaching effort.

Faye’s brand new effort is Team Lioness, the first all-female ranger squad in Kenya. Going forward, Cuevas wants one in four new hires among conservation rangers to be women. Right on, Faye. Faye is not alone in promoting women rangers in Africa.

We are admittedly caught off-guard by the loudest voice for hiring women rangers, Aussie sharp-shooter Damien Mander has just created Zimbabwe’s all-female ‘Akashinga’ anti-poaching force in Phundundu Wildlife Park. Mander pulls no punches and sounds like Hillary Clinton when the topic is women in the developing world.

Mander believes that putting the well-being of wildlife in the expertly trained hands of women could usher in a new way of carrying out conservation. In Mander’s vast experience, he believes that women rangers will create conservation practices that are far less violent, while empowers women and improving communities in the process.

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Models Marks & Spencer Rosie Swim 2019 Campaign

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley Models Marks & Spencer Rosie Swim 2019 Campaign

Rosie Huntington-Whiteley soaks up the rays, posing in the latest beach-loving swimwear designs from her collab with Marks & Spencer.

Big Gods Came After The Rise of Civilizations, Not Before, Finds Study Using Huge Historical Database

Big Gods Came After The Rise of Civilisations, Not Before, Finds Study Using Huge Historical Database

When you think of religion, you probably think of a god who rewards the good and punishes the wicked. But the idea of morally concerned gods is by no means universal. Social scientists have long known that small-scale traditional societies – the kind missionaries used to dismiss as “pagan” – envisaged a spirit world that cared little about the morality of human behaviour. Their concern was less about whether humans behaved nicely towards one another and more about whether they carried out their obligations to the spirits and displayed suitable deference to them.

Nevertheless, the world religions we know today, and their myriad variants, either demand belief in all-seeing punitive deities or at least postulate some kind of broader mechanism – such as karma – for rewarding the virtuous and punishing the wicked. In recent years, researchers have debated how and why these moralising religions came into being.

Now, thanks to our massive new database of world history, known as Seshat (named after the Egyptian goddess of record keeping), we’re starting to get some answers.

NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk, Not Having Two Equipped Spacesuits In Women's Sizes

NASA Cancels First All-Female Spacewalk, Not Having Two Equipped Spacesuits In Women's Sizes

NASA has cancelled their highly-promoted two-women space walk due to not having two size medium space suits available. Earlier this month, America’s US space agency announced that astronauts Anne McClain and Christina Koch were set to make history this Friday, installing lithium-ion batteries at the International Space Station (ISS).

NASA doesn't have two smaller space suits for the ladies, as only big guys are astronauts. Please forgive us for being sarcastic. In fact, NASA is trying to change this image of promoting only men as astronauts, but outfits to wear floating out there in the universe weren’t on the checklist.

Koch will now exit the ISS with male colleague Nick Hague instead. She will wear the medium-size suit used by McClain on a spacewalk with Hague last week.

Regan Cameron Captures Kirsty Hume In 'Light & Shadow' For Harper's Bazaar Germany April 2019

Regan Cameron Captures Kirsty Hume In 'Light & Shadow' For Harper's Bazaar Germany April 2019

Nineties model Kirsty Hume is styled by Kerstin Schneider in ‘Light & Shadow’, lensed by Regan Cameron for Harper’s Bazaar Germany April 2019./ Hair by Teddy Charles; makeup by Valery Gherman

Hyungsik Kim Flashes Hyun Ji Shin In 'Couture Fairy Tale' For W Korea March 2019

Hyungsik Kim Flashes Hyun Ji Shin In 'Couture Fairy Tale' For W Korea March 2019

Model Hyun Ji Shin poses in ‘Couture Fairy Tale’, lensed by Hyungsik Kim for W Korea March 2019./ Hair by Mike Desir; makeup by Aya Fujita

Safari Tourism May Make Elephants More Aggressive – But It’s Still the Best Tool for Conservation

Safari Tourism May Make Elephants More Aggressive – But It’s Still the Best Tool for Conservation

By Isabelle Szott, PhD Candidate in Conservation Biology, Liverpool John Moores University and Nicola F. Koyama, Senior Lecturer in Natural Sciences and Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University. First published on The Conversation.

Going on safari in Africa offers tourists the opportunity to see some of the most spectacular wildlife on Earth – including African elephants (Loxodonta africana). Known for their complex social systems, long memory and high intelligence, this species is also threatened by poaching and shrinking habitats, so further disturbance to their precarious existence could have serious consequences.

Wildlife tourism can help protect these animals and their habitat by generating income for conservation and providing stable work in local economies. Countries such as South Africa and Kenya receive two to five million visitors to protected areas each year, generating receipts of up to USD$90m. But as it becomes more popular worldwide, it’s worth remembering that we often don’t know how tourism affects the animals we observe.

Kim Noorda Wears Bold Extravagance Lensed By Damian Foxe For How To Spend It Magazine April 2019

Kim Noorda Wears Bold Extravagance Lensed By Damian Foxe For How To Spend It Magazine April 2019

Stylist Elad Bitton chooses a mix of bold extravagance from Chanel, Moschino, Fendi and more in model Kim Noorda’s look at the spring 2019 collections. Photographer Damian Foxe is in the studio for How To Spend It Magazine April 2019.

Winnie Harlow Takes A Bow As The Changing Face Of Beauty, By Dennis Leupold For Remix April 2019

Winnie Harlow Takes A Bow As The Changing Face Of Beauty, By Dennis Leupold For Remix April 2019

Top model Winnie Harlow greets us again, styled by Bex Sheers in slinky, sexy outfits that only accentuate Winnie’s 5-alarm sex appeal. Dennis Leupold is behind the lens, capturing Winnie in her New York love affair for Remix Magazine (NZ) April 2019 issue./ Hair by Hos Hounkpatin

Just imagine if Winnie Harlow, not Alexina Graham, had been named the newest Victoria’s Secret Angel! AOC thinks Barbara Palvin is perfect for Victoria’s Secret, whose financial and customer-love bank is really taking a hit these days.

Winnie Harlow as an VS Angel could help lead the world’s largest lingerie brand out of darkness and into the 21st century. The Victoria’s Secret brand needs models like Winnie, and if her price was too high, you should have paid it. As the Remix cover message communicates, the Canadian beauty represents the changing face of beauty, and she does it without compromising the VS ‘our girls are sexy’ mantra one tiny bit. This one was a layup Ed and Monica, and you blew it. ~ Anne

Damien Mander Creates Female 'Akashinga' Anti-Poaching Force In Zimbabwe's Phundundu Wildlife Park

Damien Mander Creates Female 'Akashinga' Anti-Poaching Force In Zimbabwe's Phundundu Wildlife Park

Faye Cuevas is not alone in recruiting women as wildlife rangers, responsible for patrolling and even shooting if necessary, ivory poachers. In September 2018, the BBC featured former Special Forces sniper, Australian Damien Mander, who says he found his ‘higher calling’ protecting wildlife in Africa. Knowing what key global military experts, including America’s own top military brass believes, Mander specifically focused on creating a female anti-poaching force in Zimbabwe’s Phundundu Wildlife Park nature reserve a 115 square mile former trophy hunting area that is part of a larger ecosystem home to some 11,000 elephants.

Though women rarely serve as rangers in Africa — a reality that Faye Cuevas also confronted in Kenya — Mander believes that putting the well-being of wildlife in their expertly trained hands could usher in a new way of carrying out conservation. In Mander’s vast experience, he believes that women rangers will create conservation practices that are far less violent, while empowering women and improving communities in the process.

“There’s a saying in Africa, ‘If you educate a man, you educate an individual, but if you educate a woman, you educate a nation’,” Mander says. “We’re seeing increasing evidence that empowering women is one of the greatest forces of change in the world today.”

Mander is hitting roadblocks, especially in his vision for 4,500 female rangers protecting wildlife across Africa. You can imagine the havoc he’s creating!

Amber Valletta Does A Slow, Sensual Burn, Lensed By Chris Colls For Lui Magazine Spring 2019 Issue

Amber Valletta Does A Slow, Sensual Burn, Lensed By Chris Colls For Lui Magazine Spring 2019 Issue AOC Style Photos

Supermodel Amber Valletta simmers like a cat on a hot tin roof, styled by Dan Sablon in images by Chris Colls for Lui Magazine’s March-April-May 2019 issue.

Kenya's US Anti-Poaching Expert Faye Cuevas Announces 'Team Lioness', 8 Young Maasai Women Rangers + Plans For Many More

Kenya's US Anti-Poaching Expert Faye Cuevas Announces 'Team Lioness', 8 Young Maasai Women Rangers + Plans For Many More

Team Lioness, a team of eight young Maasai women is one of Kenya’s first all-female ranger units — and the direct result of Faye’s consultations with the Masaii women leaders. Officially announced on March 6, 2019, Team Lioness joins the Olgulului Community Wildlife Rangers (OCWR) who protect wildlife across six bases and one mobile unit in OOGR through IFAW’s tenBoma, an innovative wildlife security initiative. Team Lioness is operating in this precious natural corridor created by Kenya and Tanzania under the majesty of Kilimanjaro.

“In the larger Amboseli region, out of almost 300 wildlife rangers, to my knowledge there was only one woman,” Faye explained, in introducing Team Lioness. “The need was apparent.”

 The women of team Lioness were selected based on their academic achievements and physical strength, as well as their demonstration of trustworthiness, discipline, and integrity. Typically, a Maasai girl leaves school around age 10 and have few opportunities to achieve a higher education.

“It’s very rare that Maasai women achieve a secondary education,” says Cuevas. “But all of team Lioness have the equivalent of a US high school education, and none of them have had a paying job before this. It’s breaking barriers.”

“As the first women joining the OCWR Rangers, each of the team Lioness recruits brings a new perspective and a different experience with wildlife than her male counterparts,” Faye continues. “They are important voices in protecting wildlife and reconnecting communities to the benefits of sharing land with the magnificent big cats and other wildlife that call OOGR home.”

Mariacarla Boscono Is Lensed By Boo Goerge In 'Smoke Show' For Twin Magazine March 2019

Mariacarla Boscono Is Lensed By Boo Goerge In 'Smoke Show' For Twin Magazine March 2019

Top model Mariacarla Boscono is styled by Veronique Didry in ‘Smoke Show’, lensed by Boo George for Twin Magazine March 2019./ Hair by Kei Terada; makeup by Petros Petrohilos

Michael Steinhardt, a Leader in Jewish Philanthropy, Is Accused of a Pattern of Sexual Harassment

MICHAEL STEINHARDT SHOWING ANTI-ISRAEL, ANTI-BIRTHRIGHT PROTESTERS WHAT HE REALLY THINKS. SOURCE: TWITTER PHOTO CAPTURE. VIA JNS

Michael Steinhardt, a Leader in Jewish Philanthropy, Is Accused of a Pattern of Sexual Harassment

By Hannah Dreyfus for ProPublica and Sharon Otterman, The New York Times

Sheila Katz was a young executive at Hillel International, the Jewish college outreach organization, when she was sent to visit the philanthropist Michael H. Steinhardt, a New York billionaire. He had once been a major donor, and her goal was to persuade him to increase his support. But in their first encounter, he asked her repeatedly if she wanted to have sex with him, she said.

Deborah Mohile Goldberg worked for Birthright Israel, a nonprofit co-founded by Steinhardt, when he asked her if she and a female colleague would like to join him in a threesome, she said.

Natalie Goldfein, an officer at a small nonprofit that Steinhardt had helped establish, said he suggested in a meeting that they have babies together.

Steinhardt, 78, a retired hedge fund founder, is among an elite cadre of donors who bankroll some of the country’s most prestigious Jewish nonprofits. His foundations have given at least $127 million to charitable causes since 2003, public filings show.

But for more than two decades, that generosity has come at a price. Six women said in interviews with The New York Times and ProPublica, and one said in a lawsuit, that Steinhardt asked them to have sex with him, or made sexual requests of them, while they were relying on or seeking his support. He also regularly made comments to women about their bodies and their fertility, according to the seven women and 16 other people who said they were present when Steinhardt made such comments.

Adesuwa Aighewi Fronts 'White Hot', Smoldering Images By Sebastian Kim For Harper's Bazaar US April 2019

Adesuwa Aighewi Fronts 'White Hot', Smoldering Images By Sebastian Kim For Harper's Bazaar US April 2019

Model Adesuwa Aighewi in styled by Miguel Enamorado in ‘White Hot’, lensed by Sebastian Kim for Harper’s Bazaar US April 2019./ Hair by Diego Da Silva; makeup by Kristi Matamoros