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Video: Spend a Few Minutes of Peace in Grand Teton National Park

The end of 2016 marks the closing of the National Park Service’s centennial year. For the past 12 months, we Americans have been appreciating, celebrating and...

WWF

Meet WWF’s Jim Sano: A ‘Truly Glorious’ Life as a U.S. Park Ranger

The single-engine Grumman AA-5B plane was barely perceptible on the snowy mountainside. It was January 1982, and World Wildlife Fund's Jim Sano and his fellow...

Wendy Redal

Celebrating Good News for Endangered Species in 2016

During the holiday season, we come together across lands, faiths and cultures to celebrate the persistence of light in the darkness. And we at Natural Habitat...

About Galapagos

Conservation through Tourism in the Galapagos – a Needed Interview, Part 2

In Part 1 of my interview with Executive Director of the International Galapagos Tour Operators Association (IGTOA), Matt Kareus, we discussed the...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Top 5 Most Exotic, Endangered Creatures—Borneo Unleashed

In the emerald depths of the world's tallest rain forest on the Pacific island of Borneo, life flourishes. The dense jungle canopy shelters a host of wild...

Tania Curry

New Technology Helps Catch Poachers in Africa

Earlier this year, WWF installed two systems in a protected area in central Kenya where endangered white and black rhino roam along with poachers. Nine months...

WWF

2016: A tipping point for Churchill’s polar bears?

This article was originally published in WWF's Thin Ice Blog In mid-November, I spent a week in Churchill on Canada’s Hudson Bay Coast. It’s one of the most...

iSafari

Is It Too Late to Save the African Rhino?

As I wrote in a recent article, See—and Save—the Endangered Rhino, two of the remaining species of Rhinoceros in Asia—the Javan and Sumatran rhinos—are...

Nick Grossman

Giant Pandas Rebound in China

China's giant pandas are some of the most rare and beloved animals on Earth. These black-and-white bears have long been a global icon of the urgent need for...

About Galapagos

Conservation through Tourism in the Galapagos – a Needed Interview, Part 1

Looking for any excuse to write about one of my favorite destinations on the entire planet, the Galapagos Islands, I recently caught up with my friend and...

iSafari

Mountain Gorilla Baby Boom in Uganda

A region once devastated by human activity and characterized by loss is in the midst of a revival of hope. On November 11, 2016 Businza, an adult female...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

In an Unprecedented Lawsuit, Kids Take On Climate Change

In the environmental-action and wildlife-conservation world—the two go hand in hand, as we need healthy environments for the animal kingdom to prosper—there’s...

Tania Curry

New Research: Elephant Conservation Brings Economic Value through Tourism Revenue

A new study by WWF, the University of Vermont, and the University of Cambridge shows that funds needed for antipoaching efforts in east, southern and west...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Action: Don’t Go Gentle into That Good Night

Climate change. It’s been on my mind for almost 20 years now. Close to two decades ago, I remember being part of a panel at a writing conference and telling...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Gray Whale – Greatest Endurance Athlete in the World?

Humans, eat your heart out—in the animal kingdom, there are many endurance athletes! The monarch butterfly flies 3,000 miles to its winter grounds in Mexico....

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Imperiled Corals of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef, a United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage site located on the northeast coast of...

WWF

Far Flung Family Adventure: Galápagos Edition

The Galápagos Islands are a dream destination for any nature lover. But what makes them so extraordinary for a younger traveler? Like everything in the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bad Economics: Pachyderm Poaching and Refuge Reductions

We are losing animal species at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and our wild places are increasingly coming under attack. If we’re not careful, our planet...