Nature & Wildlife
Captivating remnants of ancient times, fossils offer a window into Earth’s history and the evolution of life. They document the past, providing clues about extinct species, vanished environments and the processes that shaped our planet.
Nature & Wildlife
Across the animal kingdom, mothers “of all stripes” care for their offspring, playing a vital role in nurturing and protecting them, and teaching them essential skills. They also provide comfort and security, enabling young animals to thrive and reach maturity.
African Safaris
By Bas Huijbregts, WWF African Species Director for the Wildlife Conservation Program, and Jake Sokol, WWF Senior Director of Philanthropy of the Eastern Region “Look at that strange rock!”
Nature & Wildlife
Do chimpanzees experience grief, do crows seek joy and do elephants show affection?
Nature & Wildlife
Wild animals are not just the inhabitants of the natural world—they are its architects. That’s the exciting finding from a new study that reveals how hundreds of species have shaped the landscapes we depend on, from beavers creating entire wetlands to hippos carving drainage systems.
Nature & Wildlife
You’ve no doubt heard the phrase “size matters,” used today quasi-humorously in almost every imaginable context in which the size of a particular object—animate or inanimate—is discussed. For example, one ESPN Classic article by writer Mike Puma on the racehorse Seabiscuit was titled Size Doesn’t Matter.
Conservation
There are many types of intelligence in the animal kingdom, and it seems that almost every day, we learn something more about them.
African Safaris
Known as “The Land of The Giants,” Botswana’s Chobe National Park is home to Africa’s largest population of elephants (Loxodonta africana). Chobe is the country’s first national park, and at 4,500 square miles, it’s also the third-largest national park in Botswana, after Central Kalahari National Park and Gemsbok National Park.
African Safaris
As a massive poaching crisis rages across Africa, we are forced to consider the almost inconceivable—yet unfortunately very real— prospect of a world without wild elephants. The African savanna elephant is currently listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature, while the African forest elephant is considered critically endangered.
Conservation
When you walk through a forest, you surround yourself with carbon. Every branch, every leaf, every tendril of unseen root and every inch of trunk contains carbon pulled from the atmosphere through photosynthesis.
Conservation
Wildfires. Global warming. Floods. Pollution. Mass extinctions. With the 24-hour news cycle constantly spouting negative headlines about the state of the planet, it’s easy to feel down, especially during the winter months.
Nature & Wildlife
In 1960, English primatologist Jane Goodall made her first trek into what was then the little-known world of wild chimpanzees.
