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Nature & Wildlife
Just five days from now, the magic will happen. Santa Claus will step into his gift-laden, reindeer-powered sleigh and make his annual, around-the-world trip. The character of Santa Claus was originally inspired by the fourth-century, Greek bishop Saint Nicholas of Myra in Asia Minor (now Turkey), a man renowned for his generosity and kindness.
Conservation
A few weeks ago, I found myself standing on the rocky beach of D’Hainaut Island, within Antarctica’s Mikkelsen Harbour, watching a couple of Gentoo penguins waddle into the nearby water.
Churchill Polar Bears
By Rachael Axelrod (WWF’s Senior Program Officer for Climate, Communities, and Wildlife) and Elisabeth Kruger (WWF’s Manager for Arctic Wildlife Conservation) Before flying into Churchill, our Natural Habitat Adventures group was told our chances of seeing a polar bear were promising, but nothing could be guaranteed. This is nature, after all!
Conservation
By Brad Nahill, President, SEE Turtles If there is a poster species for the worldwide epidemic of plastic pollution, it’s sea turtles. Researchers have known the threats to sea turtles from plastic waste for decades; organizations that monitor nesting beaches have been working on this issue long before it became a popular cause.
Nature & Wildlife
It’s taken quite a number of years, but I’ve learned to be a proud introvert; and, well, as a writer, it also kind of comes with the territory. But we humans aren’t the only ones to have introverts among us. Nonhuman animals, too, have their share of “quiet ones.”
Conservation
One of today’s best-known “superfoods,” quinoa has been a crop within South America’s indigenous rural communities for thousands of years.
Nature & Wildlife
Wolves are probably one of the most widely studied species on the planet. What’s fascinating, though, is that just when we think we know almost everything there is to know about them, they find a way to surprise us. It’s estimated that 2 million wolves once roamed freely throughout North America.
Conservation
How AI is Transforming Conservation Wildlife and biodiversity may not be the first things that come to mind when you think of AI, but conservation organizations like WWF have long used a variety of technologies to monitor and manage the health of wildlife and ecosystems.
Nature & Wildlife
From spots on leopards to stripes on zebras to hexagons on boxfish, nature creates an almost infinite array of dazzling patterns and stunning colors. But a full explanation for how these designs form has remained elusive—until now.
Asia & The Pacific
Snow leopards occupy a range that spans the high mountains of 12 countries across Asia, where the hostile weather and rugged terrain conspire to snuff out any sign of life. Few animals and fewer humans can survive in this liminal space.
Conservation
Ever since the HMS Beagle arrived in the Galapagos Islands with a young Charles Darwin aboard—who was soon to meet a fateful family of finches—ecologists have struggled to understand a particularly perplexing question: Why is there such a ridiculous abundance of species in some places on Earth and a scarcity in others?
Conservation
By Christina Armstrong, WWF’s Development Officer, Regional Philanthropy, East Taylor Swift’s chart-topping song Karma off her Midnights album was on repeat in my head in Brazil’s Pantanal while on Natural Habitat’s Jaguars & Wildlife expedition in July 2023.
