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Could Grizzly Bears Hold the Secret to a Cure for Human Obesity?

When UCLA Medical Center cardiologist Barbara Natterson-Horowitz was asked one day to perform echocardiography on the failing heart of a Los Angeles Zoo...

Elissa Poma

Running for wildlife across Kenya

In their quest to run across nearly 250 miles in two weeks across southern Kenya to raise awareness for wildlife conservation, two young women found a respite...

Elissa Poma

Five Questions about Wildlife Trafficking with WWF’s Crawford Allan

Dozens of customs officials bust through the door of a remote and quaint-looking farmhouse. The first thing Crawford Allan sees when he enters following the...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Hunting Red Fox Demonstrates His Scientific Method

Watching a red fox hunt in the winter by slowly creeping forward, listening intently and then jumping high to pounce on prey can be pretty entertaining, but...

Elissa Poma

One Amazonian Protects the Future of Nature

Originally posted on the WWF Travel Blog By Elissa Leibowitz Poma / WWF Tulio Ahuanari Sima remembers the size of the paiche his fishermen grandfather used to...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The World’s Scariest Creatures

Snakes, spiders or scorpions—even though you’re a nature enthusiast, chances are that there’s at least one creature found within the world’s diverse animal...

Emily Deemer

Antarctica's Wildlife Needs Our Help!

Did you know that Antarctica is home to more than 10,000 species of penguins, whales, and seals - just to name a few - that are found nowhere else on earth? ...

Court Whelan, Ph.D.

Spotlight on Sustainability: The Importance of Ecotourism

Meet Court Whelan, one of the travel industry’s foremost experts on ecotourism and the newest member of the Nat Hab family of Adventure Specialists. This...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Using Elephants to Pay for Our Wars

On Monday, May 6, 2013, 17 heavily armed poachers entered Dzanga-Ndoki National Park in the Central African Republic. They then proceeded to a large clearing...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Indian Rhino Numbers Are Up, But Will Preserves Ultimately Help Poachers?

On the flood plains of the Brahmaputra River in Assam, India, lies Kaziranga National Park, one of the last areas in the eastern part of the country to be...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Are Fences the Last, Best Hope for African Lions?

“Good fences make good neighbors” is a mid-17th-century proverb, popularized by author Robert Frost in his 1914 poem “Mending Wall.” According to a new report...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Protecting Panda Habitat: China’s First Land Trust Reserve

When images of a wild giant panda gnawing on a takin carcass in China’s Sichuan Province were recently captured on motion-sensor cameras, researchers were...

Lisa Poppleton

Calling on Mountain Gorillas

The Uganda Minister for Tourism, Wildlife and Antiquities, with the support of The Wildlife Conservation Society, recently checked in with the mountain...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could New Animal ID Software Aid in Conservation Efforts?

Identifying individuals within a group is vital for wildlife ecologists. Following a specific animal can help scientists understand the social interactions,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bald Eagle Gets a New Beak

With their fierce, intense eyes, deadly claws and hooked beaks, bald eagles have adorned flags and led armies into battle throughout the ages. The national...

Lisa Poppleton

Freshwater Dolphins Surface on the Amazon

Over one-third of all animal species in the world lives in the Amazon River system and its surrounding rainforest. Among all this flying, creeping, swimming,...

Olaf Malver

A Piece of Trash, With a Message to Treasure — Happy Holidays! | Olaf’s Corner

A shiny red bauble that hangs on Olaf Malver’s Christmas tree — found in a most unlikely spot — is a reminder of what ecotourism can bring to communities and the guests that explore the natural environs around them.

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Changing Minds with “Chasing Ice”

Not since Al Gore’s 2006 film An Inconvenient Truth has such a powerful documentary feature film come out about the Earth’s changing climate. In the recently...