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Later this month, in late July 2017, Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly bears outside Yellowstone National Park and nearby Grand Teton National Park will lose their Endangered Species List protections. Jurisdiction over the bears will be handed over to Idaho, Montana and Wyoming. In general, that will mean fewer restrictions on killing the bears.
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Across the globe in the past few decades, an invasive chytrid fungus has been devastating amphibian populations. While scientists aren’t sure how the frog-killing form of Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis swept the planet, many suspect it traveled by the importing and exporting of amphibians for food or the pet trade.
African Safaris
Usually dogs are associated as beloved pets who have adored traits of loyalty, obedience and affection. But the African Wild dog is a vastly different breed that thrives in the desert and open plains of sub-saharan Africa.
African Safaris
We are losing animal species at an alarming, unprecedented rate, and our wild places are increasingly coming under attack.
Nature & Wildlife
This summer, the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center (BSBCC) in Sabah, Malaysia, will release an endangered sun bear back into the wild for the second time in history. Natural Habitat Adventures is proud to help support this pioneering conversation organization and its ongoing work to reintroduce rehabilitated sun bears back into their jungle home.
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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 with this first-ever designation.
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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 in November 2015. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service confirmed the death just two weeks ago, on April 25, 2016.
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There’s a classic, late 1950s, Charles M. Schulz Peanuts cartoon about watching the clouds. In it, Charlie Brown, Linus and Lucy are lying on a little hill, looking up at the sky. Lucy says, “If you use your imagination, you can see lots of things in the cloud formations.
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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 and try to find pictures in the clouds.
African Safaris
At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation program site in Dzanga-Sangha in the Central African Republic (CAR), researchers and environmentalists have worked to habituate and conserve Western Lowland gorillas over the past 16 years. At the end of January, the first western gorilla twins ever recorded in Dzanga Sangha were born.
Conservation
On December 10, 2015, an 18-year-old southeastern Texas man shot two whooping cranes in a rural area located about 18 miles west of Beaumont, Texas. He said he was hunting ducks. Whooping cranes are migratory birds protected under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA).
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How many trees are there in the world? That’s a question you—or a child in your life—has probably asked many times. Until now, however, there hasn’t been a very precise answer. But according to a new video produced by Nature, there are 3.04 trillion trees in the world; a number that’s hard to mentally grasp.
