Nature & Wildlife Stories

The Skeleton Coast, Namibia

Few tourists have ever ventured here. It is a place famous for whale bones, lions, fur seals, and ship wrecks. The Skeleton Coast is unusually beautiful and...

Emily Goodheart

East of the Sun and West of the Moon: The Folklore of Arctic Animals

In the far North, the aurora borealis shimmers and blazes, in bright contrast with a frozen, white world below. But life can be found in the most polar of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eastern Cougars Declared Extinct. Will It Help Reintroduction Efforts?

Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Heroic Age of Exploration and Our Not-So-Gutsy Times

Big dreams of adventure were not uncommon in the late 1800s and early 1900s, a time known as the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration. But one adventurer may have...

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Churchill – The Challenges of Climate Change and Remote Living

The arctic tundra was beautiful, especially in the early morning as the sun rose. It sparkled and glittered in icy cold magic. As each day progressed, it...

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How to Identify Tortoiseshell Souvenirs

Hawksbill sea turtles play a vital role in the world’s oceans. They help maintain the health of coral reefs by removing prey such as sponges from the reef’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Despite Cold Temperatures, the Earth Burns and the Arctic Is Lost

It’s the day after New Year’s, and we’re just entering into 2018. In Times Square last night, according to the Associated Press, it was the second-coldest New...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Fascinating Wildlife in Zimbabwe

By Nat Hab traveler Carolyn Knoll | Hidden Jewels of Zimbabwe & Zambia "On an early morning in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe, our guide took us to the...

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How Polar Bears Won a Special Place in My Heart

This was my first trip to the Arctic. To see polar bears in Churchill, Canada, was an experience far beyond my expectations. The trip combined wildlife...

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Beyond the Stripes

Tigers are inspirational. Their extraordinary nature and symbolism moves people to act and make bold commitments. In 2010, leaders of the 13 countries that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

“Bird Years” and the Year of the Bird, 2018

Wildlife science has many measurements; for example, “carrying capacity,” “depredations” or “translocations.” But there’s a new scale I recently came across:...

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Resilience in a Changing Climate

For hundreds of years, polar bears have been migrating though Churchill to make their way across the frozen Hudson Bay. I was excited to be in the "polar bear...

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A Better Way to Bear It

Harboring one of the planet’s last great bastions of ice, East Greenland is a wild Arctic landscape. Polar bears reign over this raw terrain—an expanse of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

2017: Warm Fall, Cold Winter. It’s Still Climate Change.

Fall 2017 will officially come to a close in just about two weeks. It was probably one of the warmest falls that you can remember. That’s why it may be hard...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Turkeys: Smart and—Perhaps—Beautiful Birds

Despite what you may have learned in elementary school, there were probably no turkeys at the first Thanksgiving. The written menu listed fowl, but this most...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Whooping Crane Recovery a Victim of Federal Budget Cuts

After more than 50 years, the largest captive-breeding-and-release program for whooping cranes is closing. Housed at the U.S. Geological Survey Eastern...

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Be Informed. Buy Informed.

Last year, the U.S. Wildlife Trafficking Alliance (USWTA), a global coalition focused on reducing illegal wildlife products sold in the United States,...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Endangered Orangutans of Borneo

Known as “the man of the forest,” the unique, colorful, highly intelligent orangutan went from an estimated 300,000 individuals in 1900 to only a handful of...

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