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African Wild Dogs Are the First Heat-Adapted Species Shown to Be Suffering from Climate Change

Polar bears struggling to find the ice floes they need for hunting and survival became the icon of climate change and our rapidly warming planet decades ago....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch Tigers Being Released into the Wild

Watching wild animals being returned to their natural habitats after an accident or injury is immensely gratifying and often thrilling. Restoring even just a...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: First Bison Calf Is Born on Wind River Reservation

Arapaho and Shoshone people on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming—2.2 million acres of tribal lands—released 10 genetically pure bison on November 3, 2016....

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Borneo’s Biodiversity in 11 Photos

WWF's Kelley Ashford captured these wildlife photos within the world's tallest rain forest during her Borneo Adventure with Natural Habitat Adventures. The...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Why We Should Teach the Next Generation About Conservation

Conservation Will Protect the World for Future Generations Children are born curious. They are interested and excited to know about the natural world and what...

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Wildlife Photos: Borneo’s Up-Close Encounters

WWF's Kelley Ashford captured these wildlife photos within the world's tallest rain forest during her Borneo Adventure with Natural Habitat Adventures. Her...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Lost California Grizzlies

Although prominently featured on the California flag, a wild grizzly bear hasn’t been seen in the state since the 1920s. In the early 1800s, about 50,000...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Grizzly Bears Just Lost Federal Protections

Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Concrete Solution for Fighting Climate Change

There’s a song I think of every July. It’s titled “Summer in the City,” and it was recorded by The Lovin’ Spoonful way back in 1966. Some of the lyrics go...

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Q-and-A: Mexico’s Kingdom of the Monarchs

Of all migrations by small creatures, few are as astonishing as the one performed by the monarch butterfly. The embodiment of fragility, these insects travel...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Needing Trees: Giant Sequoia National Monument and a Forested City

Today is the Fourth of July, the day we celebrate the founding of the United States and all the things that make our nation unique. More than 150 years ago,...

Elissa Poma

10 Travel Tips that Are Good for Conservation

They criss-cross the globe in an effort to protect the planet’s wild places, so WWF staffers know how to travel responsibly. Here are 10 conservation-minded...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife

Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us....

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Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Matt Erke

Matt Erke serves as an Program Officer for WWF's Forest Program. Matt tells about how travel opened his eyes to the incredible beauty and power of nature. 1....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Climate Change: World’s First Carbon-Capturing Plant Opens

In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Rediscovering Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”

While cleaning one of my bookshelves yesterday, I found a copy of the children’s classic The Giving Tree. It’s hard to believe it’s been 53 years since author...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Last Monarch Butterfly Migration?

As I described in a previous post, On a Wing and a Prayer, the monarch butterfly is one of the most amazing and delicate insects on our planet. But will they...