Candice Gaukel Andrews

Earth Day 2021: Restore Our Earth

“Restore Our Earth” is the theme for this year’s Earth Day, which is April 22, 2021. The concept is based on the idea that as the world returns to normal...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildlife Research Prospers in the Pandemic

This is National Wildlife Week, an annual celebration of the beauty and diversity of America’s wildlife. Started in 1938, this event encourages people across...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Color of Your Clothing and How It Affects Animal Behavior

If you love nature, wildlife-watching is probably one of your greatest joys. And because you care about animal welfare, you most likely try to ensure that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Natural Environment—and the People Who Depend on It

Even if you don’t know much about the science regarding COVID-19, you probably can’t escape the fact that the disease has caused major changes in your...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Novel Look at South Africa

I have never been to Africa. Yet, I like to imagine being there: I picture myself on a safari in Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, South Africa or Tanzania. I dream...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Wildlife Day: Wildlife’s Value—Now and Even after Death

Tomorrow, March 3, we’ll recognize the eighth World Wildlife Day, which was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly (U.N.G.A.) at its 68th session...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Most Beautiful Countries in the World Have Two Problems

Almost a year ago, before the COVID-19 pandemic raced around the world, I thought of writing to you about the countries that seem to perpetually be on annual...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Paying for Protecting Wildernesses and Biodiversity

True wilderness areas—where human impacts are minimal or entirely absent—are dwindling. That probably comes as no surprise to you. But you may not know the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Grand Teton National Park Getaway

Let’s just go to Grand Teton National Park. I mean it. After so many weeks of economic hardships, pandemic worries and political chaos, I need to shut down...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Above the Tree Line in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem

I once walked on the moon. It was remote and windy and bare; the kind of landscape that seems to call to me. This “moon,” though, wasn’t off Earth. It was...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Asian Elephants Have Distinct Personalities Similar to Ours

Anyone who has ever adopted a cat or dog into the family knows that each pet is distinctive. One of your dogs, for example, may have loved to spend all day at...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

See the Natural Wonders of the World in 2021

It’s time to say farewell to 2020; and for many of us, we’re happy to do it—perhaps more so than for any other year we’ve ever experienced. For those smitten...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Three Laws I’d Enact If I Ruled the World

With the presidential election coming up next week, I can’t help but think about the future of our world—mostly the next four years—and what it will look...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Worth of a Whale and the Price Tag of a Panda

In prepandemic times, those of us who cherish wildlife and wild places tried to quantify them in economic terms, hoping to convince those who didn’t care...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Zion National Park, Where Color Lives

For me, Zion National Park is the place where color lives. That's how I connect to it. While other great national parks—such as Grand Canyon National Park at...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Elephant Poaching in the Pandemic

You probably already know the perilous position that the world’s elephants are currently negotiating. The International Union for Conservation of Nature...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Studying the Structure of Giant Sequoias to Keep Us Safer

Yosemite National Park’s massive mountains—such as El Capitan, one of the world’s tallest monoliths—and its many waterfalls—such as Yosemite Falls, which...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Hope for Coral Reefs in Crisis

For almost 24 million years, say scientists, coral reefs have functioned relatively unchanged. That is, until the 1980s. Starting in that decade, tropical...

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