Nature & Wildlife
Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service pulverized nearly six tons of illegal African and Asian elephant ivory. A conservative estimate of this ivory, which was seized at our nation’s ports of entry from the late 1980s to the present, is that it represents 2,000 animals.
Nature & Wildlife
Do you love nature? Wildlife? Fabulous photographs of the natural world? And are you within driving distance of Denver? Then come discover Africa as you’ve never seen it before! Be NHA’s guest at a new exhibit by renowned nature photographer John Fielder featuring spectacular panoramic images of Africa.
Nature & Wildlife
“Mosi oa Tunya” — the Smoke that Thunders. That’s the name the local Kololo tribe gave to Victoria Falls, the mile-wide curtain of falling water that plunges 350 feet over a basalt cliff into the turbulent Zambezi Gorge. During the dry season, the falls are a series of individual cataracts.
Conservation
It’s hard to imagine that an African elephant could ever be as small as this infant, but the proof is in the picture: Even though this little one, which is less than three weeks old, is about as diminutive as elephants get, it’s still a baby version of the world’s largest land mammal.
Videos
It’s not easy being green, as Kermit the Frog often reminds us. And that statement is particularly apropos if you’re an African bullfrog (Pyxicephalus adspersus).
