Conservation Stories

Watch Five Newborn Cheetah Cubs Live on a Webcam!

Need a little something to brighten up your Monday? Then check out this live 24-hour webcam trained on these five cheetah cubs at South Africa's Hoedspruit...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Day 2015: the Good, the Bad and the Silenced

Wednesday, April 22, is Earth Day 2015, the 45th celebration of what started out as a true grassroots movement—the environmental likes of which we haven’t...

Wendy Redal

Colorado River in Grand Canyon Tops 2015 List of ‘Most Endangered Rivers’

Few landscapes on Earth are as stirring as the Grand Canyon, the most iconic emblem of the American Southwest. Major John Wesley Powell, who headed the first...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Protected Areas Bring in $600 Billion, So Why Cut Funds?

Across the United States, more than 715 million acres of wild lands in thousands of holdings are protected, thanks to measures such as the Wilderness Act of...

Derek Ward

New Hope for Monarch Butterfly Populations

Habitat for the monarch butterfly has rebounded 69 percent from last year’s dismally low levels, according to the Associated Press and the World Wildlife...

Wendy Redal

Illegal Wildlife Trafficking: U.S. Doubles Down

Within the open expanse of the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge just outside Denver, you’ll find an unseemly sight – a large government...

Tania Curry

Actor Jared Leto Joins WWF as Global Ambassador

You may recognize Jared Leto from popular films such as Requiem for a Dream, Dallas Buyers Club and front man for the rock band 30 Seconds to Mars. Though he...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Should We Vaccinate Wild Animals for Canine Distemper Virus?

The world’s tigers face considerable threats today: poaching, habitat loss, depletion of their prey and retaliatory kills by humans when the big cats take...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Going Vegan: Best Way to Combat Rapid Climate Change?

One of my favorite things about writing a regular eco-travel and environmental column is getting to read the comments that come in. Sometimes readers are...

About Galapagos

First Baby Giant Tortoises Hatch on Galapagos Island Since (Possibly) the Civil War

Good news about the environment seems to be a rarity these days, which makes this story all the more enjoyable to share. The Pinzón Island saddlebacked...

Maddi Higgins

A Rainbow of Marine Protected Areas

Only 2.3% of the world's oceans are protected. That's why WWF works to create Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). An MPA is an area designated to protect marine...

Wendy Redal

30 Years of Nature Travel with Nat Hab Founder & President Ben Bressler

For Ben Bressler, Nat Hab’s founder and president, an early interest in nature was cultivated in a rather unlikely place: suburban Maplewood, New Jersey. As a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Endangered Species List May Not Be Best for Animals at Risk

Gray wolves in the Great Lakes region received some good news last month. In a surprise, unusual ruling on December 19, 2014, United States District Judge...

Tania Curry

10 WWF Success Stories of 2014

2014 was a successful year for conservation and WWF's work around the world. None of it could have been possible with the support of WWF's members. Read about...

About Galapagos

Join the Charles Darwin Foundation's Heroic Crusade to Save the Mangrove Finch (Video)

Last week, we featured a story about the financial crisis that the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) is facing and urged our readers to support a fundraising...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Going Green Isn’t Good: Climate Change and the Green Revolution

Feeding the world’s population in the coming years is going to be a challenge. The United Nations estimates that by 2100, there will be an average of 11...

Tania Curry

Show-and-Tell Develops Young, Budding Travel Conservationists

Anna and Alex confidently stood in front of a classroom full of rowdy elementary age kids. As newly-minted, pseudo polar bear ambassadors, they presented a...

About Galapagos

Support Science and Conservation in the Galapagos and Triple Your Impact

A few weeks ago, the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF) announced that it was facing a year-end budgetary crisis and that it need to raise $1 million to avoid...

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