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  • Conservation

    Black Rhinos and White Rhinos: Counts, COVID and Conservation

    Sep 6, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    As caregivers, parents and teachers of children, we try to encourage and respect every youngster’s individuality. We tell them that they are each unique and that every one of them has something separate to give, something different to learn and something distinct to create.

  • Conservation

    The Wild Upper Douro: An International Treasure

    Sep 4, 2022 · Wendy Redal

    Portugal’s Douro Valley is best known as a cradle of European winemaking. For more than 2,000 years grapes have been planted in terraced vineyards along the steep mountainsides that line the Douro River, when the Romans discovered that the dry and hot conditions created excellent grapes.

  • African Safaris

    Older Male Elephants Help Keep Younger Males Calm

    Sep 1, 2022 · Samantha Miller

    Wildlife management is a field that continues to develop as scientists, policy leaders, government officials and local advocates collaborate to ensure that ethics, science and sustainability are the foundation of the field.

  • Latin America

    What do Monarch Butterflies Eat? Milkweed 101

    Aug 29, 2022 · Megan Brief

    Pick a Weed, Save a Life Milkweeds contain various levels of cardiac glycoside compounds or cardenolides, which render the plants toxic to most insects, animals and humans. Despite their seemingly sinister sap, milkweeds breathe life to pollinators and people alike.

  • News & More

    Nature as a Multivitamin: How to Get Your Daily Dose

    Aug 25, 2022 · Sheryl Nance-Nash

    There’s nothing quite like nature. It’s an elixir of life. Few things can change your mood almost instantly like the beauty of a sunset, a snow-capped mountain, a sparkling turquoise sea or the quieting comfort of the forest. You exhale, let go of the day’s worries, relax and breathe more slowly.

  • Conservation

    Backing Biodiversity Will Lessen the Climate Crisis

    Aug 23, 2022 · Candice Gaukel Andrews

    The history of life on Earth has been marked five times by events of mass biodiversity loss caused by extreme natural phenomena. Today, a sixth mass extinction crisis is underway, this time almost entirely caused by human activities. In fact, one recent survey revealed that more species are threatened with extinction than we previously thought.