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The International League of Conservation Photographers (ILCP) uses images to coordinate environmental education, cultural preservation, and political and social activism. To these ends, the group works to support a code of conduct for photographers in endangered areas, guarantee accurate and non-manipulative use of images in policy discourse, and generate institutional and financial support for groups finding creative ways to use visual media in conservation campaigns.
Faced with the need to find flexible responses to immediate environmental threats and rapidly changing situations, the ILCP developed the Rapid Assessment Visual Expedition (RAVE) program to create “a full visual and media assessment” of an issue or ecoscape in a very short period of time by coordinating the efforts of researchers and photographers with skills ranging from camera trapping to landscape photography. While operating under the aegis of the ILCP, each RAVE receives financial support from nonprofit organizations and NGOs ranging from National Geographic Magazineto local environmental and civic groups. Working within a short time window, each RAVE crafts a broad-ranging, interdisciplinary portrait. The next RAVE will explore the border of the US and Mexico in early 2009, examining the effects of economic development, immigration, and security; past projects have traced natural gas drilling in Wyoming and poaching in Bioko Island, Equatorial Guinea, among other topics.
. Historian Shae Davidson's research interests include public policy and the relationship between culture and civil society. His publications range from articles on industrial history to absurdist poetry.
