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Feeling pressed for time? Silly question, right? With smartphones, tablets, computers and other electronic devices constantly competing with our real-world lives and work and family obligations, who doesn’t feel rushed? We all know that nature can make us nicer, healthier and happier individuals.
A squad of about 80 bottle-nosed dolphins is presently serving in the U.S. Navy. Some of these dolphins have been trained to find mines and mark their location by dropping an acoustic transponder. Human divers are then sent in to destroy the explosives.
One of the features on the newly redesigned website of The World Wildlife Fund that I have enjoyed is the camera trap photo galleries from the Amazon, Russia, Nepal, and Ecuador. To obtain data on wildlife and their habitats, scientists install cameras with infrared triggers in wilderness areas.
When my son and I visited California’s Monterey Bay in October a few years ago, we were enchanted by our frequent sightings of sea lions and sea otters.
Like fragments of glass, 114 lakes shimmer across the landscape of Sichuan’s Jiuzhaigou National Park on the edge of the Tibetan Plateau. Indeed, legend relates that the lakes originated in the shattering of a mirror presented to the beautiful goddess Woluo Semo by an adoring mortal.
I used to think that some of the world’s best nature and travel books could be found in the children’s section of my local bookstore.
Butterflies seem to be one of the most fragile of all creatures. Yet the stately monarch butterfly embarks on an annual migration of 2,000-3,000 miles from locations in the United States and southern Canada all the way to the highlands of central Mexico.
By Lisa Poppleton Certain national parks are particularly renowned for their animal denizens. Recently, I was in Grand Teton and Yellowstone, where bison, moose, elk, and osprey were roadside attractions. Invisible, at least on this trip, but on every visitor’s mind are the wolf and grizzly bear.
A baby orangutan normally spends up to eight years in the full-time care of its mother. She transmits to her young the skills vital to survival during the normal 40-year lifespan of an orangutan in the wild.
Hear the phrase “global warming,” and you immediately picture your hometown with a hotter climate. You imagine a line of more southerly plants marching northward to where you live.
The website of Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University includes a section entitled South Central China and Tibet: Hotspot of Diversity. This appellation applies to a region of extraordinary richness in endemic plant and animal species, and one whose ecosystem is threatened by the pressure of human activities.
Only 30-35 Amur leopards remain in the wild. Through establishment of a new national park in the Russian Far East, The Land of the Leopard, the World Wildlife Fund and its partners have joined local and national governments and community groups in an urgent effort to save this magnificent species.
