Nature & Wildlife Stories

Urban Animals: Wildlife Is Adapting to City Life

During the winter months, bald eagle watching is one of my favorite pastimes. In Wisconsin where I live, the raptors tend to hang out on the Mississippi and...

Lisa Poppleton

Freshwater Dolphins Surface on the Amazon

Over one-third of all animal species in the world lives in the Amazon River system and its surrounding rainforest. Among all this flying, creeping, swimming,...

Lisa Poppleton

Juggling Wolves in the Rockies

As a lover of wild animals, my media feed spans the globe for wildlife conservation stories. This fall and winter, however, I have not needed to search far...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The North Star: Nature’s Best Guide

During the week before Christmas, it seems fitting that we pay homage to a part of nature that, over the centuries, is often a traveler’s best friend: the...

Lisa Poppleton

In the Hall of a Mountain Cat

When I see this broad furry face staring straight into the camera, I can’t help but think of a wizened little mountain troll. “What are you doing in my...

Wendy Redal

Galapagos Getaway Sweepstakes – Deadline Oct. 31!

Want to win a nature vacation in the Galapagos Islands?? Don't let Halloween pass without entering World Wildlife Fund's Galapagos Getaway Sweepstakes! The...

Lisa Poppleton

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...

Wendy Redal

Eight New Mammals Discovered in Peru’s Cloud Forest

As conservation groups like WWF and others fight to protect a multitude of endangered species, it's heartening to learn that new species are still being...

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

Feeling Awe Slows Down Time—Or at Least, It Seems that Way

Feeling pressed for time? Silly question, right? With smartphones, tablets, computers and other electronic devices constantly competing with our real-world...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mammals in the Military: Navy Dolphins

A squad of about 80 bottle-nosed dolphins is presently serving in the U.S. Navy. Some of these dolphins have been trained to find mines and mark their...

Lisa Poppleton

Wildlife on Candid Camera

One of the features on the newly redesigned website of The World Wildlife Fund that I have enjoyed is the camera trap photo galleries from the Amazon, Russia,...

Lisa Poppleton

“Thar They Blow”: Blue Whales Surface en Masse in Monterey Bay

When my son and I visited California's Monterey Bay in October a few years ago, we were enchanted by our frequent sightings of sea lions and sea otters. This...

Lisa Poppleton

Discover China’s Wild Lake Country

Like fragments of glass, 114 lakes shimmer across the landscape of Sichuan’s Jiuzhaigou National Park on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, legend...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Has Nature Disappeared from Children’s Books?

I used to think that some of the world’s best nature and travel books could be found in the children’s section of my local bookstore. On those dedicated...

Lisa Poppleton

Miraculous Monarchs

Butterflies seem to be one of the most fragile of all creatures. Yet the stately monarch butterfly embarks on an annual migration of 2,000-3,000 miles from...

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,...

Lisa Poppleton

Wilderness Survival School for Orangutans

A baby orangutan normally spends up to eight years in the full-time care of its mother. She transmits to her young the skills vital to survival during the...

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