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Polar Bears — Fun Facts for Kids!

Polar bears, the great white kings of the North, live in the colder regions of the Arctic and subarctic tundra, and they can be seen firsthand in places like...

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Together Possible: Making a Difference for Peru’s Natural Treasures

In order to protect natural places, people need to work together. No one group can solve the conservation challenges of the planet alone. Inspired by WWF’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Hustle and Bustle at the Hummingbird Feeder

Hummingbirds may be small, but they certainly pack a lot of appeal. Iridescent, colorful and capable of helicopter-like flying maneuvers, they enchant almost...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Drones: Wildlife Difficulty or Poaching Deterrent?

Drones have become popular conservation tools. The Bureau of Land Management, the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Geological Survey have all used...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Endangered Honduras Frogs Get a New Health Clinic

Across the globe in the past few decades, an invasive chytrid fungus has been devastating amphibian populations. While scientists aren’t sure how the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Warming Oceans Due to Climate Change Causing Seabird Deaths

Recently, in late 2016, hundreds of tufted puffins washed up dead on shores along the Bering Sea in Alaska. Earlier last year, tens of thousands of dead...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Video: Close Encounters with Churchill’s Polar Bears

Each fall, the world’s greatest concentration of polar bears convenes at the edge of Hudson Bay in Manitoba, Canada, waiting for the sea ice to form and their...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Animal Privacy Rights: Monitoring Wildlife Out of Existence

As the field of electronic wildlife-tracking has grown, so has our knowledge about the lives of animals. Through GPS collaring and trail cams, we’ve learned...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Why Greenland’s Ice Is So Quickly Melting

Science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson authored a trilogy of futuristic eco-thrillers that I really enjoyed reading. In the three books, titled Forty...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change: The Consequences of a Canceled Conference

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, planned to hold a Climate and Health Summit, set for February 14-16,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Anthropocene: Dawn of the Age of Humans or Demise of the Earth?

It’s the beginning of a brand-new year, and—in geological terms—it may be the start of a new name for our era. The International Union of Geological Sciences,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Wear Lionfish Jewelry to Protect the Atlantic Ocean

Lionfish, a colorful native of the South Pacific and Indian Oceans (the Indo-Pacific region) have now taken up what could become permanent residence in the...

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10 things I learned in the Peruvian Amazon

A photo essay based on Natural Habitat Adventure’s Great Amazon River Cruise in Peru. #1: The next installment of Mad Max should be filmed in Iquitos...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Rent a Wild Animal in Australia: A Conservation Innovation?

Allowing wildlife—a public resource—to be transferred into the hands of private operations isn’t a new idea. Many U.S. states allow the practice to generate...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: “Hearing Beyond” in Natural Landscapes

When the world gets to be too much, when we get too tired of hearing constant messages and always being tuned in, there’s nothing like heading out to a...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Go Tell a Polar Bear How Much of the Arctic You’re Melting!

Scientists can now measure individuals' direct contributions to global climate change—and the results are staggering. According to a recent paper published in...

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Conservation and Traditional Medicine in the Amazon

I have a reputation when I travel of attracting the attention of venomous snakes and children. This can be both a curse and a blessing when working for WWF on...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Year’s 2017: Should “Auld” Acquaintance Be Forgot? I Think Not.

Traditionally, throughout the world on New Year’s Eve, we all join in the singing of “Auld Lang Syne.” The song, whose title roughly translates as “for old...