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Attitudes Toward Wildlife: the Right Kind of Caring?

American attitudes toward wild animals are growing more positive, according to a new study published just last month in the international journal Biological...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Protecting the Woolly Mammoth to Save Today’s Elephants

The woolly mammoth—an animal that went extinct 4,000 years ago—is currently being considered for legal protection under conservation trade rules. “How that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Matter of One Meadow: Yosemite’s New Addition

Yosemite National Park is growing. Here, now, in 2016, that’s a statement I never thought I would be able to make. But last week, on September 7, the National...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

No More Warnings: the Results of Climate Change Are Here

Close your eyes and picture a world with no more dire warnings about climate change and what will happen if we do nothing to stem its tide. Envision seeing no...

Emily Deemer

Nat Hab & WWF’s 2017 catalog of the World’s Greatest Nature Journeys is ready!

Last month, I flew to Vancouver, British Columbia, to monitor the printing of the latest and greatest Catalog of World’s Greatest Nature Journeys for Nat Hab...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A New Movement: Personhood for All Animals

Black Lives Matter. Blue Lives Matter. Veterans Matter. You could probably name a dozen other organizations that work to convince us that all human lives have...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Peril to Our Public Lands: Privatization

This week, on Thursday, August 25, the National Park Service will celebrate its centennial. This year has been filled with campaigns and events to commemorate...

Emily Deemer

Ranthambore Tigress Machli Dies at the Amazing Age of 19

This is a guest post by Toby Sinclair, long-time Nat Hab India Expedition Leader and tiger expert. In 1998 Nat Hab Expedition Leader Suhail Gupta and I were...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Memorial to Loss: the Mass Extinction Monitoring Observatory

We’re currently living in the midst of what scientists call the sixth mass extinction, the sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. But the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mining vs. Monument: Which Will We Choose for the Grand Canyon?

The Grand Canyon in Arizona is one of the planet’s Seven Natural Wonders. More than a mile deep, the canyon runs for 277 river miles, which are protected as...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dead Bees on Washington: Does the Environmental “Now” Ever Come?

Just two weeks ago, June 20-26, 2016, we celebrated the annual National Pollinator Week—or you may have observed it if you knew it was National Pollinator...

Julie Waggoner

First Twin Giant Pandas of 2016 Born in Chengdu

On June 20, China welcomed the first pair of panda twins of 2016 into the world. Their mother is a six-year-old giant panda named Ya Li, and the twins are her...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Family Politics: Ranking Climate Change

My sister and I, like most sisters, share a lot in common. But we don’t always see eye to eye when it comes to politics. Yesterday, she told me that in this...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

President Talks about Climate Change in Yosemite National Park: Is It Too Late?

On the day before Father’s Day 2016, President Obama visited Yosemite National Park. The trip was planned as a family vacation, but it also aimed to focus...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

When Signs Aren’t Enough: Walling Off Yellowstone National Park

It seems so simple. If there’s a sign warning you of danger and to “Keep Out,” you should. So how does a 23-year-old, college graduate—who had worked at a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?

With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Films Shot in Fragile Places: Creating Conservationists or Eroding the Environment?

It’s the day after Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. While the summer solstice is still a ways to go—June 20—after Memorial Day,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?

We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison...

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