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The Color of Your Clothing and How It Affects Animal Behavior

If you love nature, wildlife-watching is probably one of your greatest joys. And because you care about animal welfare, you most likely try to ensure that...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Natural Environment—and the People Who Depend on It

Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Novel Look at South Africa

I have never been to Africa. Yet, I like to imagine being there: I picture myself on a safari in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa or Tanzania. I dream...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Wildlife Day: Wildlife’s Value—Now and Even after Death

Tomorrow, March 3, we’ll recognize the eighth World Wildlife Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.G.A.) at its 68th session...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Greenland’s Ice, Elemental and Ephemeral

A polar vortex over the Midwestern states has kept me cold and inside for most of this month. I’ve had to stop my daily walks with my dog, because her paws...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Most Beautiful Countries in the World Have Two Problems

Almost a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic raced around the world, I thought of writing to you about the countries that seem to perpetually be on annual...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Snow Leopards and Conservation Travel in Ladakh, India

Insights from India Expedition Leader Surya Ramachandran Ladakh, the Indian trans-Himalaya, is one of the last bastions of Tibetan Buddhism in the 21st...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Paying for Protecting Wildernesses and Biodiversity

True wilderness areas—where human impacts are minimal or entirely absent—are dwindling. That probably comes as no surprise to you. But you may not know the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Above the Tree Line in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

I once walked on the moon. It was remote and windy and bare; the kind of landscape that seems to call to me. This “moon,” though, wasn’t off Earth. It was...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Asian Elephants Have Distinct Personalities Similar to Ours

Anyone who has ever adopted a cat or dog into the family knows that each pet is distinctive. One of your dogs, for example, may have loved to spend all day at...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

See the Natural Wonders of the World in 2021

It’s time to say farewell to 2020; and for many of us, we’re happy to do it—perhaps more so than for any other year we’ve ever experienced. For those smitten...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Botswana’s Changing Lands: Elephants Not to Blame

The African nation of Botswana is believed to have the world’s largest population of wild elephants. While the exact number is hard to pinpoint, estimates are...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Three Laws I’d Enact If I Ruled the World

With the presidential election coming up next week, I can’t help but think about the future of our world—mostly the next four years—and what it will look...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic

You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studying the Structure of Giant Sequoias to Keep Us Safer

Yosemite National Park’s massive mountains—such as El Capitan, one of the world’s tallest monoliths—and its many waterfalls—such as Yosemite Falls, which...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Madagascar’s Dwindling Forests and Their Linked Lemurs

Imagine that you are lactose intolerant, and then you discover that all of the grocery stores in your vicinity sell only dairy products. That’s how a Duke...

WWF

Update: Wildfires in Brazil

By Karl Egloff, WWF The Pantanal has fascinated me since I first learned about it in a documentary ten years ago. It is a world of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Kenya’s Cattle Ranchers Conserve Wild Hartebeests—and Lion Predators

Hartebeests—the narrow-faced, savanna-adapted and unusual-looking African antelope that are native to more than 25 African countries—are on a downhill...