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A New Whale Species Is Found Living in the Gulf of Mexico

Whales are fascinating beings. After living on the land for a while, their ancestors chose to go back to the sea; they have their own, complicated cultures;...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildfires Restore Yosemite and a Video View of the Park

During the drought conditions in the summer of 2021, wildfires raged throughout the western U.S. For example, as of September 12, 2021, the Dixie Fire is the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Parks, People, a Pandemic and Problem-Solving

Being able to get away to a park—whether national, state or local—played an important role in mental and physical health for a lot of us during the first...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News: Pikas Now Predicted to Persist

A relative of rabbits, tiny, cute and charismatic American pikas typically live in cool, mountain environments and find refuge from the hot sun under boulders...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Somewhat Noble Call of a Snow Leopard

We’re all familiar with this movie scene: a bald eagle soars overhead in a wild, Western-type, wide-open landscape, and we hear the iconic, piercing, strong...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

How Should Rhinos Be Relocated? Upside Down.

At times, wildlife conservationists do things that might look a bit strange or even questionable to the rest of us. And seeing a rhino tied by its legs and...

Emily Goodheart

Canada Is Opening (and the Polar Bears Are Waiting)

I'm sure by now you've heard the news that so many of us have eagerly waited for—Canada will open its borders to vaccinated Americans on August 9th. We join...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

News on Kangaroos and an Australia Atlas of Nature

Kangaroos have become iconic poster children for Australia’s great outback. But although the kangaroo is a national emblem for the country, some locals also...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Your Africa Safari Photographs Could Help Save Wildlife

I have never been fortunate enough to go on an Africa safari, but I never tire of reading about the experiences of others who have visited the continent, such...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

People and Wildlife Need Each Other for Good Health

Here, looking out from the Anthropocene, we tend to regard nature as something other than ourselves. Wild places and wildlife, it seems, are commodities to be...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

You Don’t Have to Be a Nature Expert to Love It

There’s the old maxim that you must know something to love it. And we’ve certainly heard that regarding nature: that if we don’t expose people—particularly...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

African Wild Dogs and the Necessity of Wildlife Corridors

Larger than Austria and Germany combined and nearly twice as big as the United Kingdom, the enormous KAZA (Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area)...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Post-Pandemic, Learning to Trust Again from a Gray Whale

The longest recorded migration by a mammal was made by a gray whale. In 2015, a female made a journey of nearly 14,000 miles from Russia to Mexico and back....

Cathy Brown

Slovenia: One of the World’s Greenest Countries

How Slovenia, a tiny unspoiled mountainous country nestled between Croatia, Austria and Italy, has managed to stay relatively under the radar for nature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Five Ways that Travel Makes You More Empathetic

Empathy seems to be in short supply, lately. And it’s no surprise after all we’ve dealt with in the past two years: the coronavirus pandemic, economic...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Giraffe-African Savanna Relationship: It’s Complicated

Much like the beneficial but complicated effects that the wolves of Yellowstone National Park exert upon their environment, recent research is beginning to...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

“Restore Our Earth” is the theme for this year’s Earth Day, which is April 22, 2021. The concept is based on the idea that as the world returns to normal...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildlife Research Prospers in the Pandemic

This is National Wildlife Week, an annual celebration of the beauty and diversity of America’s wildlife. Started in 1938, this event encourages people across...