Rhino Horn is NOT Medicine: Meet the writers

Rhishja Cota-Larson

Because people need to know, that’s why.

Rhishja is the founder of Saving Rhinos LLC, Editor of Rhino Horn is Not Medicine and Project Pangolin, author of the book Murder, Myths & Medicine, a writer for the environmental news blog Planetsave, and a contributor on the Jeff Corwin Connect Citizen Blog. She was also a guest blogger on National Geographic’s NatGeo News Watch (Rhino horn: All myth, no medicine).

She is a Stanford Certified Project Manager (Stanford Center for Professional Development, Stanford University) and received her BA degree in Government from California State University, Sacramento.

Rhishja is currently assisting TRAFFIC Southeast Asia with public awareness campaigns, and provides research to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) on an ad hoc basis.

Sarah Pappin

Sarah is a biologist-turned-writer who joined the Saving Rhinos team in October 2011 as a writer for Project Pangolin.

Her first experience directly working with wildlife came in high school, when she spent several weekends job shadowing the marine mammal caretakers at the Oregon Coast Aquarium. This inspired her to continue to feed her passion for wildlife at Oregon State University (OSU).

While studying for her BS in Wildlife Science at Oregon State University, Sarah spent several months in Namibia as an intern for a cheetah research and conservation project.

She is inspired by personal role models like Dr. Lisa Needles, Dr. Selina Heppell, Dr. Anita Morzillo, and Dr. Joe Beatty. She has been influenced by many famous wildlife heroes, especially Jeff Corwin, Steve and Terri Irwin, Alexandra Morton, and Jane Goodall.

After graduation, Sarah spent considerable time involved in research on bears, sea turtles, as well as other reptiles and amphibians. She has worked for the State of New York as a big game technician, with a focus on black bears.

Sarah is also an artist – she drew the pangolin in the Project Pangolin logo!