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International Debate over Antarctica's Ross Sea

While the planet’s oceans steadily decline from pollution and overfishing, the ecosystem of Antarctica’s Ross Sea endures in a relatively pristine state. The...

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Calling on Mountain Gorillas

The Uganda Minister for Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, with the support of The Wildlife Conservation Society, recently checked in with the mountain...

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Wildlife at Your Fingertips

Our good friends over at WWF have just released their first U.S. iPad application, “WWF Together,” available as a free download at the AppStore. The app is...

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Freshwater Dolphins Surface on the Amazon

Over one-third of all animal species in the world lives in the Amazon River system and its surrounding rainforest. Among all this flying, creeping, swimming,...

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Juggling Wolves in the Rockies

As a lover of wild animals, my media feed spans the globe for wildlife conservation stories. This fall and winter, however, I have not needed to search far...

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In the Hall of a Mountain Cat

When I see this broad furry face staring straight into the camera, I can’t help but think of a wizened little mountain troll. “What are you doing in my...

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Endangered and Endemic: The Fragile Wonders of Madagascar

When endangered overlaps with endemic, the result is all too often extinction. Scientists are alarmed by the increasing rate of vanishing species throughout...

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Rhinos Poached to the Brink

A recent article in the South African newspaper Times Live reported that two poachers were sentenced to 29 years each in prison for killing a rhino and its...

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Wildlife on Candid Camera

One of the features on the newly redesigned website of The World Wildlife Fund that I have enjoyed is the camera trap photo galleries from the Amazon, Russia,...

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“Thar They Blow”: Blue Whales Surface en Masse in Monterey Bay

When my son and I visited California's Monterey Bay in October a few years ago, we were enchanted by our frequent sightings of sea lions and sea otters. This...

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Discover China’s Wild Lake Country

Like fragments of glass, 114 lakes shimmer across the landscape of Sichuan’s Jiuzhaigou National Park on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, legend...

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Miraculous Monarchs

Butterflies seem to be one of the most fragile of all creatures. Yet the stately monarch butterfly embarks on an annual migration of 2,000-3,000 miles from...

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The Jewel and the Keystone of India’s Kanha National Park

By Lisa Poppleton Certain national parks are particularly renowned for their animal denizens. Recently, I was in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, where bison,...

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Wilderness Survival School for Orangutans

A baby orangutan normally spends up to eight years in the full-time care of its mother. She transmits to her young the skills vital to survival during the...

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Top Cat of the Rainforest

Over the past few weeks, I have blogged about two of the big cats of Asia: the Amur Leopard and the Snow Leopard. The Western Hemisphere has its share of...

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Joseph Rock and China’s “Hotspot of Diversity”

The website of Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University includes a section entitled South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity. This appellation...

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A New Refuge for the World’s Rarest Cat

Only 30-35 Amur leopards remain in the wild. Through establishment of a new national park in the Russian Far East, The Land of the Leopard, the World...

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WWF Nepal Launches Conservation Drones

On June 12, 2012, World Wildlife Fund Nepal successfully tested two drones designed to monitor animals and keep a lookout for poachers in Chitwan National...