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**This Halloween, the haunted house isn't a house. It's Chipco Preserve. ** Bats swoop through moonlit trees. Spiders weave sinister webs. Owls call from the darkness, and ghostly mushrooms rise from decaying wood. But these creatures aren't the monsters of your nightmares. They're nature's unsung heroes. Discover the spooky secrets of Chipco Preserve, where **the real horror isn't what lurks in the shadows. It's what happens when those creatures disappear.**

In 1971, scientists exploring a remote Galápagos island discovered a solitary giant tortoise living among the cactus and Palo Santo trees. Soon named Lonesome George, he carried an unimaginable burden beneath his massive shell: he was the last of his kind. In Endling: The Story of Lonesome George, Maeve Kiley traces the human choices that connects his story to Martha, Sudan, Toughie, and other animals pushed to extinction’s edge.

National Animal Rights Week asks us to confront a painful contradiction: animals are loved, honored, and remembered, yet too often treated as expendable. From Ahimsa to Mitákuye Oyás'iŋ, many traditions teach that animals are not objects, but living relations worthy of protection, dignity, and care.