The Baobab Tree: An African Icon and Longtime Legend
With its bulbous shape and canopy resembling an upside-down root system, the baobab tree symbolizes the African continent. Its origins are also the stuff o...
Laura Kiniry
Conservation Stories
10 Inspiring Wildlife Wins Across Great Britain
Across the rolling hills of England and the rugged highlands of Scotland, conservationists, scientists and local communities are working to restore nature ...
Rebecca Self
The Winter Ecology of Yellowstone: Wildlife Survival Strategies & Adaptations to Climate Change
In the shadow of Yellowstone’s ancient and dense pine forests, a sage grouse burrows beneath a blanket of deep snow. Guided by starlight, a snowshoe hare d...
Megan Brief
Five Cubs and a Comeback: Where Wild Tiger Numbers Are Rising in Asia
A tigress steps through a forest in northeast China, followed by five striped cubs. The camera trap footage lasts only moments, but it tells a story decade...
Rebecca Self
6 Pygmy Wildlife Species and Where to Find Them
When it comes to wildlife, the term ‘pygmy’ refers to animals that are smaller in size than their more typical counterparts. In many cases, these reduced m...
Laura Kiniry
The Singing Lemurs of Madagascar
Often referred to as the “eighth continent,” the island nation of Madagascar has developed its own distinct ecosystems and extraordinary wildlife since it ...
Megan Brief
Wildfire Prescription: Prescribed Burns
Wildfires are complicated. On one hand, they can be extremely destructive forces. On the other, they are natural events that certain animals and plants hav...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Urgent: Help Protect the Bears of Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park!
Two years ago, we asked you to speak up against a proposed mining project threatening Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park and its extraordinary wildlife. Now...
Natural Habitat Adventures
Serengeti Calling
Driving across the plains of the Serengeti, every sense becomes sharpened: eyes alert as you scan the horizon, inhaling the mingling scents of lemon bush a...
Emily Goodheart
Why Botswana Is a Model for Ecotourism Around the World
Conservation Through Travel: How Botswana Leads in Sustainable Safaris In today’s world of mindful travel, more explorers are asking how their journeys imp...
Michelle Peters
Why Milkweed Matters: A Guide to Growing Monarch Habitat
Does it seem to you that all of a sudden, people across North America are talking about milkweed? Lately, stories about milkweed and monarch butterflies h...
Rebecca Self
A Journey With Monarchs, Milkweed and More
Written by Ariana Bowman, WWF’s Gift Planning Senior Development Officer As we navigated through the lush forest landscape on horseback and then on foot, a...
WWF
Sustainability Goals and How We Can Achieve Them
We may already be living far beyond what the Earth can sustainably support, suggests the writers of a brand-new study, who analyzed more than 200 years of ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
From Childhood Dream to PhD: How an Earthwatch Expedition Sparked a Career in Marine Biology
Aaron Judah wanted to be a marine biologist from the time he was three. Two decades later, he’s a PhD candidate studying deep-sea biodiversity around the g...
Earthwatch Expeditions
Environmental DNA Is Revolutionizing Wildlife Conservation
From personal testing to discover your roots, connect with long-lost relatives and discover hidden family secrets to blockbuster sci-fi stories and cold-ca...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Savoring and Saving Summer Beaches
Summer will arrive soon, and that means that a lot of you will be thinking about a sunny beach vacation. Humans are instinctively drawn to the sun for its ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
At the Edge of the Arctic: What Scientists Are Discovering in Churchill
By Alix Morris Welcome to Churchill, Manitoba At the southern edge of the Arctic, in Canada’s Hudson Bay lowlands, lies Churchill, Manitoba—a small town th...
Earthwatch Expeditions
Ancient Legends, Modern Challenges: Protecting the Amazon’s Pink River Dolphins
The Amazon river dolphin is known as the boto in Brazil and as bufeo or bufeo Colorado in Spanish-speaking parts of the Amazon Basin, including Peru, Colom...
Rebecca Self