Conservation Stories

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...

Lisa Poppleton

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...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hearing Rachel Carson on the 50th Anniversary of “Silent Spring”

September 27 will mark the 50th anniversary of the publication of Silent Spring, a book written by marine biologist Rachel Carson. In her famous tome, Carson...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

UNESCO World Heritage 40th Anniversary: Has It Helped Preserve Our Most Treasured Places?

On your bucket list of travel destinations, there are probably several United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Are State and National Parks Going Extinct?

As wildlife seekers and nature enthusiasts, we tend to rank state and national parks high on our lists of favorite travel destinations. And with 6,624 state...

Wendy Redal

World Elephant Day

Elephants have had a bad year, especially in the Central African nation of Cameroon. Earlier in 2012, a band of heavily armed poachers invaded Bouba N'Djida...

Lisa Poppleton

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,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could Save-the-Environment Messages Use a Little Selfishness?

As someone who loves wild, natural places, you’ve heard plenty of dire environmental alerts and communications. There are more tigers in people’s backyards...

Lisa Poppleton

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...

Wendy Redal

“Extreme Melt” Observed on Greenland Ice Sheet

Nearly all of Greenland’s vast ice sheet experienced surface melting earlier this month, as NASA data show rapid acceleration and scope of diminishing ice.

Natural Habitat Adventures

When Conservation Helps Communities, Wildlife Prospers: Lessons from Namibia

By Ted Martens, Natural Habitat Adventures Vice President of Marketing & Sustainability Namibia is in the midst of a conservation...

Wendy Redal

Americans Concur: National Parks Beat Theme Parks for a Family Vacation!

Move over, Disney World: From liberal Democrats to Tea Party Republicans, Americans are united when it comes to valuing nature and our national parks, a new...

Lisa Poppleton

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...

Lisa Poppleton

World Wildlife Fund Plays Tag and Ana is IT

Turtle tagging is not a slow version of the classic children’s game, but a satellite tracking program supported by the World Wildlife Fund to better...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Starry Nights in Danger at Bryce Canyon National Park

America’s national parks give us the rare opportunity to see a star-filled night sky, a window on nature that most of us who live anywhere near a town or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Sea Ice: Losing in the Arctic, but Gaining in the Antarctic

Cute, adorable animals are often used to garner support for environmental causes in places that are remote. After all, it’s hard to have concern for an area...

Lisa Poppleton

WWF Provides Life Insurance for Snow Leopards

It is a conflict as old as the hills: the predation of domestic livestock by a wild animal and subsequent eradication of the predator by the deprived herder. ...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

More Penguins—and People—in Antarctica than Previously Thought

There are twice as many emperor penguins in Antarctica than previously thought, stated the National Science Foundation in mid April. That’s certainly good...

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