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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Plants and People: Moving to Antarctica for Good—or Bad?

With our warming climate, some plants are managing to hitch a ride to Antarctica. Will they colonize and thereby change the continent?

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Films Shot in Fragile Places: Creating Conservationists or Eroding the Environment?

It’s the day after Memorial Day, the unofficial start of the summer season. While the summer solstice is still a ways to go—June 20—after Memorial Day,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?

We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Size Wilderness?

Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change

The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hidden from Headlines: Climate Change News

Although ostriches don’t really bury their heads in the sand, it appears that we humans do—at least when it comes to climate change. According to a new report...

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Emily Deemer

Natural Habitat Adventures Attends White House Meeting to Fight Wildlife Trafficking

“Frankly, I didn’t realize we still had an illegal wildlife trade problem here in the U.S.” This common misperception was shared more than once at the U.S....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Clouds Can Help Find Threatened and Endangered Species

Cloud-gazing is, perhaps, a lost pastime. Before the Internet grabbed their attentions and took up most of their time, children would lie back on a summer day...

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Wendy Redal

WWF Kenya Safari Sweepstakes—Announcing the Adventure and the Winners

WWF and Natural Habitat Adventures recently teamed up to give away an exclusive conservation safari to Kenya, and we’re thrilled to announce the winners and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change and the Astronaut: the Endgame

If you got the news that, best-case scenario, you only had 12 to 18 months to live, I’m guessing you might quit your job and spend your final days traveling,...

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Julie Waggoner

We Asked and You Answered! Here’s Why Travel Makes you Happy [INFOGRAPHIC]

Last year in honor of the International Day of Happiness, we asked you to tell us what it is about travel that makes you happiest. We loved your responses,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Missing Winter: the Iditarod and the American Birkebeiner

In January 1925, the children of Nome, Alaska, were dying. They were suffering from diphtheria. The town’s only physician, Dr. Curtis Welch, feared the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Penguins, the 2016 Oscar Awards and World Wildlife Day

Last night, Leonardo DiCaprio accepted his first Best Actor Oscar award. He used his moment at the podium to remind us about the planet’s most urgent threat:...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

By 2018, High-Speed Internet Service Will Be in Every National Park

This year, the National Park Service (NPS) is celebrating its centennial, and there are numerous plans and scheduled activities to encourage more Americans to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Is Ringling Brothers Really “Retiring” Its Elephants?

Circus elephants in Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey shows got good news last week when it was announced on January 11, 2016, that they would be retired...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Lions Are Now Protected Under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, but Will It Help Conserve Them in Africa?

As of January 22, 2016, lions will be protected under the Endangered Species Act, which is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS). Our...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Human-Wildlife Conflict and Malheur National Wildlife Refuge

I heard about another act of wildlife poaching this morning. Only this time it wasn’t African elephants or Indian tigers or Indonesian rhinos. It was in the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New WILDLABS.NET: Where Technology and Conservation Meet

It’s easy to find recent examples of how technology has helped wildlife conservation. New electronic tools for detecting and preventing animal and plant...

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