Conservation Stories

Save vanishing species next time you’re at the post office

I can't say I've seen any tigers or rhinos lurking around my local post office, but next time I pop in for stamps, I'll be able to help protect them. That's...

Wendy Redal

World Tourism Day: Travel Makes a Difference!

Today is World Tourism Day, a chance for countries and citizens around the globe to ponder and celebrate the crucial role of travel in our mutual wellbeing....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Trees Are Talking

If you’ve ever walked in a forest or a grove on a breezy or windy day, you’ve probably experienced that bit of an unsettling feeling that says to you that the...

Wendy Redal

Tiny Elephant? No Oxymoron Here!

It's hard to imagine that an African elephant could ever be as small as this infant, but the proof is in the picture: Even though this little one, which is...

Wendy Redal

Deal With the Devil? Tanzania to Mine Uranium in Selous to Fund Park Upkeep

Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park is legendary, but its biggest game reserve – the Selous – is even more impressive, for its size and stunning amount of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Coal Cools: a Global Warming Enigma

The Dallas-Fort Worth area is currently on its 39th consecutive day of temperatures in the triple digits. The region might soon break its record of...

Wendy Redal

Botswana to ban wildlife hunting

Botswana is once more taking a leading role among African nations in advancing wildlife conservation as it prepares to end game hunting in favor of safaris...

Wendy Redal

Study: Polar Bear Cubs Drowning Due to Sea Ice Loss

Polar bears in peril have become an icon for the woes of a warming planet. The sea ice they rely upon to hunt seals is freezing later and breaking up earlier,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Turtle Runways and Pronghorn Highways

You’d think it would take something very big or potentially catastrophic to stop an Airbus A380 or a Boeing 747 from taking off at New York City’s John F....

Wendy Redal

Where to View Endangered Species in North America

When my family went to Churchill, Manitoba to see polar bears, one of the more poignant dimensions of our trip was the awareness that these amazing animals...

Wendy Redal

10 Travel Tips to Protect the Planet

Earth Day is past, but cultivating eco-awareness should be a part of our daily routine. When it’s time to leave home, consider the planet as you make your...

Wendy Redal

For Earth Day: A Gallery of Green

It's Earth Day, and you're likely to hear the word "green" a gazillion times before April 22 is over. It's easy to get calloused to the notion of "going...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Natural Disasters: An Ecotourism Tool?

In 1951, Kirk Douglas starred in a B movie titled The Big Carnival (originally released as Ace in the Hole). I saw it as a kid, many years later, when the...

Wendy Redal

Tiger Numbers on the Upswing in India

Fantastic news out of India: Home to half the world's wild tigers, India has announced that its tiger population has increased to 1,706 from 1,411 since the...

Wendy Redal

Japan's Snow Monkeys Unscathed by Earthquake

Japan is heavy on all our minds in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the country’s northeast region. While I worry with the...

Wendy Redal

Japan’s Snow Monkeys Unscathed by Earthquake

Japan is heavy on all our minds in the wake of the massive earthquake and tsunami that has devastated the country’s northeast region. While I worry with the...

Wendy Redal

Baby tigers have blue eyes! And other fun tiger facts

Did you know the tiger's mystical golden eyes are a trait that only adults possess? Babies are born with blue eyes, which open when they are about 10 days...

Wendy Redal

Happy Birthday, Yellowstone National Park!

America's first national park is 139 years old today! Yellowstone became the first federally protected national park by an Act of Congress signed into law on...

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