Conservation Stories

California Is the First State to Ban Lead Ammunition: Should All States Follow Suit?

Kudos to California. Last October, it became the first state to ban lead ammunition for all types of hunting. The ban will benefit the state’s namesake...

Tania Curry

Video: UK Royalty Issues Plea to 'Unite for Wildlife'

Prince Charles of Wales and William, Duke of Cambridge, recently issued six videos to urge the end of the illegal wildlife trade through the support of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fighting the Keystone XL Pipeline: Right Issue or Wrong War?

On January 31, 2014, the State Department released its Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement of the Keystone XL pipeline in an 11-volume...

Emily Deemer

A Heart-warming Photo Essay: Kenyans Protecting their Wildlife

The New York Times Lens recently featured a heart-warming photo essay highlighting how local communities in Kenya are working to protect their endangered...

WWF

Tagging Greenland sharks, the “Jaws of the North”

By Jacqueline Nunes, Writer, Strategic Partnerships & Development, WWF-Canada. Way, way, way up—way up—north is probably not the first place you’d look if...

Elissa Poma

A Q-and-A on Climate Change in the Arctic with WWF’s Bryn Baker

The Arctic is often thought of as a remote and distant land – far-enough away that it seems improbable that changes there are having an effect on most of us....

WWF

Know Before You Go: Responsible Whale Shark Tourism in Mexico

Article author Karen Douthwaite is WWF's Senior Program Officer for the Mesoamerican Reef. They measure 40 feet, weigh more than 20 tons and can have a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change and Wildfire Risk: Will Future Forests Be Treeless?

Last fall, in the midst of burned and charred trees left in the wake of Yosemite National Park’s Rim Fire, I participated in, of all things, a wedding. It was...

WWF

15 WWF Success Stories of 2013

As 2014 gets into full swing, WWF celebrates successes of 2013 and thanks supporters who made these wins possible. We've noted victories that positively...

Emily Deemer

Video of the Week: Can "rewildling" create a wilder world?

With our Yellowstone wolf tours kicking off next week, we wanted to share George Monbiot’s TED Talk about the concept of “rewilding,” or what he calls a “mass...

Elissa Poma

Five Questions about Wildlife Trafficking with WWF’s Crawford Allan

Dozens of customs officials bust through the door of a remote and quaint-looking farmhouse. The first thing Crawford Allan sees when he enters following the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

We Need More Snow Days

I think part of the reason that I love snow and ice is because I think winter is an endangered species. Have you ever chosen to travel to a particular place because you miss the colder winters of the past?

Wendy Redal

An Elegy – and a Hope – for Elephants

A PERSONAL REFLECTION ON THE U.S. IVORY CRUSH Two years ago when I was on safari in Botswana, I saw my first herd of wild elephants. We heard them first—a...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Carving a New Life for Forests

Originally posted on the WWF Travel Blog By Cassie O'Connor, WWF Senior Program Officer Wood is the source of life, according to Asmat tradition. Their...

Court Whelan, Ph.D.

Spotlight on Sustainability: Preserving Cultures through Ecotourism

The first thing you probably think of when you hear the word ecotourism is nature travel. Perhaps you’re familiar with the core values of ecotourism and also...

Wendy Redal

Poachers Kill 300 Elephants in Zimbabwe Using Cyanide

I’m always more enthused to share conservation success stories than grim accounts of wildlife devastation, but it’s crucial for the Good Nature community to...

Emily Deemer

Antarctica's Wildlife Needs Our Help!

Did you know that Antarctica is home to more than 10,000 species of penguins, whales, and seals - just to name a few - that are found nowhere else on earth? ...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Arctic Sea Ice Declines to Its Sixth-Lowest Extent on Record, Yet Some Still Repudiate the Loss

I’ve always loved ice. Growing up in Wisconsin, my winters were filled with it. I could skate on it, watch it paint the trees with a crystalline, Doctor...

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