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Dolphin Poop Helps Save Coral Reefs

It’s not exactly a secret that the dolphin is one of the most intelligent animals on Earth. If you’ve ever seen one gleefully interact with a dog on a boat,...

Lavanya Sunkara

How the Inflation Reduction Act Spells Hope for the Environment

The Inflation Reduction Act that President Biden signed into law on August 16, 2022, includes the most ambitious climate spending package in the country’s...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could Greenland’s Past Be the Amazon’s Future?

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon...

Cathy Brown

The Rewilding Movement: Lost Species Rediscovered

“Re:wild: The Search for Lost Species” sounds like the title of an action-adventure movie, and in a way, this ambitious and optimistic initiative contains all...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studies of Extinct Ibex Could Save Today’s Tigers

The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) officially became extinct in January 2000, when a falling tree landed on Celia, the world’s last wild Pyrenean...

Megan Brief

The Big Bad Wolf: Greater Yellowstone’s Greatest Controversy

Watch Nat Hab’s “The Big Bad Wolf” and Read on for an Exclusive Interview with the Film’s Co-Producer—Wildlife Biologist, Aaron Bott Directed by Andrew...

Cathy Brown

Meet Nat Hab’s Summer Conservation Marketing Interns

So much of what happens here at Nat Hab goes on behind the scenes. The amount of work it takes to get our conservation message out to the world is huge, and...

Natural Habitat Adventures

Nat Hab Shines the Spotlight on Tiger Conservation in Recognition of Global Tiger Day

“Sustainable, sensitive ecotourism has played an integral role in helping to bolster wild tiger numbers, with the economic impact of visitors to India’s tiger...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

We Can Have Both: Clean Energy and Conservation Programs

Our planet’s climate is changing before our eyes. Weather events have gotten more extreme, and we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Unfortunately,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

“New” Greenland Polar Bears Found

Scientists have discovered a previously unknown, isolated population of polar bears living in Southeast Greenland that has found a unique way to survive.

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Who’s Smarter: Your Domesticated Dog or a Wild Gray Wolf?

Greyhounds have been a part of my life for more than two decades. In fact, in 2019, when my husband and I got the call inviting us to visit the local kennel...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Brown Bears and Polar Bears and Their Tangled Histories

A “time line” of nearly any animal’s existence is an almost-oxymoron, if you ask me. Time lines can make things seem as if they progressed in a linear manner....

Jennie Lay

Petitioning for Pebble

Now is the critical moment to sign on and support Bristol Bay conservation…again The final battle is intensifying in an epic three-decade struggle between an...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Story of Blue Whales and a “Book” of Baleen

A pod of orcas grabbed the headlines in late March 2019. Researchers performing their annual dolphin and whale surveys off the southwestern coast of...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fearless Animals Will Fare Better in the Face of Climate Change

Without a doubt, we humans are altering the natural environment. Because of our activities, we are now experiencing melting glaciers; rising sea levels;...

Megan Brief

Spot Dolphins in the Sunshine State Aboard the Solar-Powered Boat, SQUID

SQUID The shortfin squid inhabits the continental shelf and slope waters of the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, from Newfoundland to the central east coast of...

Cathy Brown

Conservation Win: Alaska Oil and Gas Lease Sale 258 Canceled

Nature and wildlife lovers can all breathe a little easier now. The Biden administration has announced it is canceling a proposed oil and gas lease sale in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Environment Day 2022: Defeating Deforestation

“Only one Earth. In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it." That’s...