Nature & Wildlife
Today is World Wildlife Day 2018, and this year’s international conservation event will be celebrated with the theme, “Big cats: predators under threat.” Although big cats are adored across the planet, these majestic predators face many threats to their continued survival in the wild, including poaching, habitat loss, human-wildlife conflicts, and illegal wildlife trade.
Nature & Wildlife
Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now removed them from the Endangered Species list, where they had been placed in 1973.
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a thirsty jaguar in Brazil. Photographer Marcelo Melo was traveling along a river when he came across this big cat on the riverbank. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Nature Photography
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a young leopard relaxing in a tree in the Serengeti. Photographer Steve Grodin captured this moment while on safari in Tanzania. Have you taken some amazing wildlife photos during your travels?
Latin America
Elusive, stealthy and stunningly beautiful creatures, jaguars are a sight that many people hope to see when they venture into the Amazon rain forest. The Amazon is one of the most probable places on this planet to spot a jaguar.
Conservation
Last night, I watched a movie titled Merchants of Doubt. In this 2014 film, director and producer Robert Kenner lets us in on a secret that’s hiding in plain sight: there is a small—but highly paid—group of charismatic, silver-tongued “pundits” who present themselves in the media as scientific authorities, even though they have few credentials.
Videos
It started with some anecdotal stories from villagers. Although tigers were known to live in the Himalayan foothills of Bhutan, no one believed that they resided any higher up the mountain—until some rumors from locals started surfacing.
Nature & Wildlife
