About Me

My name is Saadat Faiz. I’m a graduate student at Miami University pursuing an MA in conservation biology. I’m also an independent writer and filmmaker based in Michigan (my classes are remote!). My love for nature began at an early age, exploring the forests of Michigan. This love for nature and wild spaces has only grown since then.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the awesome opportunity to travel to some of the wildest places on Earth to complete conservation expeditions as part of obtaining my degree, known as Earth Expeditions! I’ve camped in lion and hyena territory in Africa, practiced agroforestry with local farmers in the jungles of Brazil, worked with renowned scientists on extensive species recovery programs and grassland regeneration projects, lived alongside the Indigenous Maasai people, and much more. The focus of my degree has been regenerative farming, and how humans and wildlife can can coexist in integrated systems.

Below is an image from my Brazil expedition with a team of researchers, professors, and students, to the forests of Brazil, where we worked with local scientists and community members on numerous community-based conservation efforts:

Miami University’s Project Dragonfly. Summer 2023, Brazil Earth Expedition: Saving Golden Lion Tamarins.

Although I am far from being an alarmist, I cannot deny that we are losing species at an alarming rate. Deforestation, pollution, and intensive agriculture are destroying our planet’s wilderness areas before our very eyes! That is why I intend to start a regenerative farming conservation project that will help heal our soils and ecosystems while sustainably producing food for humanity. Please read about my idea here.