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Music Video: Love Song to the Earth

There are reams of scientific studies on the rapid climate change we are now experiencing, all showing us why we need to act now if we want to avoid...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Cod: Save the Species or Preserve East Coast Economies?

Warming ocean temperatures are diminishing the number of polar bears, causing a loss of Arctic sea ice and breaking up the East Antarctica ice sheet. While...

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11 Wild Reasons to Visit Costa Rica (in Photos)

Costa Rica is literally rich. In wildlife. This tiny country has built up an incredible reputation as a sustainable destination founded on the idea that its...

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What I've Learned from a Salmon's Travels

I was pondering the cycle of life yesterday as I walked along a creek full of spawning salmon in Juneau, Alaska where I live. I’m somewhere in the middle of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Applauding Paris: Climate Change Conference 2015 Will Go On

Before the terrorist attacks that left more than 125 people dead and hundreds wounded in Paris on Friday, November 13, 2015, the city was set to host the 21st...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Counting—and Counting On—the World’s Trees

How many trees are there in the world? That’s a question you—or a child in your life—has probably asked many times. Until now, however, there hasn’t been a...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The Giant Panda: 6 Incredible Facts about the World’s Cutest Creature

One of the most well known and lovable of all creatures on Earth happens to also be one of the most modest, shy and endangered species in the world—China’s...

Tania Curry

Twenty-Five Years in the Amazon

WWF's Meg Symington on saving the world's largest rain forest I was only 21 years old in 1982 when I traveled to Manu National Park in the Peruvian Amazon to...

Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The Time to See—and Save—Polar Bears is Now

Ursus maritimus (the polar bear) is listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species—one step away from the list's official Endangered...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Most of Us Support the Endangered Species Act. So Why Doesn’t Congress?

Just a few months ago, in summer 2015, there were hopeful headlines for the Endangered Species Act (ESA). A new poll had been released that showed that nine...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Halloween Video: Nature’s Zombies

At this time of year, the minds of Hollywood TV and film producers aren’t the only ones full of thoughts of zombies, those rather stiff and stumbling, hungry...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

As Earth’s Superpredators, Can We Change How We Use Wildlife?

Would you mind living next door to a top predator? It’s a question I’ve asked you before. It seems that when it comes to bears, lions or wolves, we humans, as...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Trees Have Their Own Internet, and It Works Like Ours

I admit I may be what some would consider a little too woo-woo, “out there” when it comes to trees. I’ve always had a special affinity for them; I’ve even...

Tania Curry

Wear It Wild: Because Halloween is fun, but extinction is scary

WWF is launching a FUNdraiser in time for Halloween, with funds supporting wildlife and nature. If you've already started looking for costume ideas (or you...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Increasing Bad Behavior around Wildlife: Are More Regulations Needed?

Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Does the Word “Travel” Mean to You?: Inspirational Travel Quotes from Around the World

Well-known travel writer Pico Iyer once wrote that “Travel for me is all about transformation, and I’m fascinated by those people who really do come back from...

Tania Curry

Join Two WWF Conservation Experts in the Amazon

For 40 years WWF has been working in the Amazon, a biodiverse and ecologically important rain forest that produces more than 90 billion metric tons of carbon...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

South Korean Forest Is Cut Down for the Olympics: Is Restoration Possible?

Most of us see the benefits of the world’s Olympic Games: they are some of the very few times nations come together to showcase their most beautiful...