Conservation Stories

A Drone Crashed in Yellowstone: Do We Need Tighter Security in Our National Parks?

Anyone who has visited Yellowstone National Park can attest to the beauty of Grand Prismatic Spring, a body of water that has a deep, brilliant blue color at...

Chris Miller

Rhinos Without Borders Attempts Massive Rhino Relocation

The rhinos of Africa are faced with a sad reality. Every seven hours a rhinoceros life is taken by poachers, and without the help of conservation efforts, the...

About Galapagos

Radiolab Devotes an Entire Episode to the Galapagos Islands: Why You Should Listen

If you’re a fan of NPR’s Radiolab, you may have already heard the episode they put out earlier this year about the Galapagos Islands. If you haven’t heard it,...

Wendy Redal

Why Wilderness Matters: The Wilderness Act Turns 50

An experience of the world’s vanishing wild places is the heart of what we offer at Natural Habitat Adventures. Anyone who has traveled with us to the...

About Galapagos

Forty Years Spent Fighting for the Galapagos: An Interview with Dr. Godfrey Merlen

Dr. Godfrey Merlen is an English biologist who has called the Galapagos Islands home for the last forty years. He is known as an eloquent and tireless...

About Galapagos

Where Have All the Boobies Gone?

The number of blue-footed boobies, one of the most iconic Galapagos bird species, has declined by 50% in the last 20 years, according to a recent study...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

USDA Wildlife Services Killed More Than 4 Million Animals in 2013. Was It Justified?

Wildlife Services, part of the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, set off a firestorm of criticism...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Smokey Bear: Overachiever or Climate Change Clairvoyant?

Smokey Bear turned 70 years old this past Saturday, August 9, 2014. I feel a special kinship with the old bruin and forest-fire-prevention representative for...

About Galapagos

On the Front Lines of Galapagos Conservation: An Interview with Swen Lorenz of the Charles Darwin Foundation

Recently, we had the chance to catch up with Swen Lorenz, the Executive Director of the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), which operates the Charles Darwin...

About Galapagos

Can a Pioneering Conservation Effort Save One of the Most Critically Endangered Species in the Galapagos?

For the first time ever, conservationists in the Galapagos Islands have hand-reared a species of bird in an effort to save it from impending extinction. With...

Chris Miller

International Tiger Day is Tomorrow!

via Halesowen News This gorgeous tiger from England's Dudley Zoo has been chosen as the face of this year's International Tiger Day tomorrow, July 29, 2014....

Tania Curry

How Well-Meaning Travelers Inadvertently Help Poachers

Outside Magazine recently profiled a new way poachers are using technology to locate species such rhinos in the wild. What technology you ask? The GPS...

Emily Deemer

Video of the Week: Raju the Elephant Cries Tears of Joy after Being Rescued from 50 Years of Abuse

Meet Raju the elephant. For the past 50 years, Raju was living in a nightmare of cruelty and suffering in Allahabad, India. He was poached when he was a young...

Kendal Bower

The Problem with Palm Oil

Palm oil has been in the news a lot lately. Commonly used in the food industry, it has been touted as a healthier alternative to many other oils. Early this...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Japanese Whaling: Truly for Sustainability Science, or Only for Cultural Consistency?

In May 2014 at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) Scientific Committee annual meeting in Bled, Slovenia, the government of Japan officially announced...

WWF

Embarking on a Career in Conservation

I didn’t expect to embark on a career in conservation. The idea once made me picture wading in marshes clad with binoculars and a birding vest. Now, working...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

On the Loss of Passenger Pigeons and Parks

One hundred years ago this year, the last passenger pigeon on Earth died in the Cincinnati Zoo. A female named Martha, she has now become an icon for species...

Tania Curry

12 At-Risk Animals to See in the Wild

Thanks to passionate conservationists, animals, such as tigers and black rhinos, have been brought back from the edge of extinction. Other animals, at-risk to...

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