Isilo is about 65 years old. He lives in KwaZulu-Natal in an area where elephants have roamed since time immemorial. Also at Tembe is the world's largest spinning spider, thought until recently to be extinct. The park benefits the Tembe tribe.

Organic, artisanal, creative chocolatiers who make chocolate that shows exactly why chocolate is considered an aphrodisiac -- and good for your health. Plus -- a video shows and tells you how to choose and taste chocolate. Yumm.

She paid her own way and went to the Cape region -- South Africa's wine country -- to hand-raise cheetah cubs for a program focused on saving the animals from extinction. This is a story in four parts, each with photos, and there is a slide show.

Maori cooking Ngāraratuatara-style is x-tremely hot, x-tremely unusual, x-tremely sustainable, x-tremely delicious. Part 1 of this story has a slideshow. Part 2 has a video. The geothermal waters are at New Zealand's Maori Arts & Crafts Institute.

Oakland Zoo is a leader and role model for the welfare and care of animals in captivity. You can see it in their new Hamadryas Baboon Cliffs Exhibit.

Historic Lake Merritt structure in California is saved and reborn as a restaurant with a fresh and local focus. And the birds retain their wooden dockside perch.

Caitlin Freeman is inspired by the arts to create her desserts. A true artisan pastry chef who uses organic, fresh, local ingredients, she works in the gallery's Blue Bottle kiosk -- the small-batch cult coffee roastery founded by her husband.

What must it must be like to have talk show hosts and the world debate your genitals? Call you a hermaphrodite in huge headlines? Results leaked by an Australian newspaper about the teen runner's sex test have united the nation. But what about her?

Raymond and Emily Hoche-Mong think of their place as a historic, earth friendly inn catering to readers, nature lovers, pilots and enthusiastic eaters.