Candice Gaukel Andrews

Madagascar’s Dwindling Forests and Their Linked Lemurs

Imagine that you are lactose intolerant, and then you discover that all of the grocery stores in your vicinity sell only dairy products. That’s how a Duke...

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WWF

Update: Wildfires in Brazil

By Karl Egloff, WWF The Pantanal has fascinated me since I first learned about it in a documentary ten years ago.  It is a world of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Kenya’s Cattle Ranchers Conserve Wild Hartebeests—and Lion Predators

Hartebeests—the narrow-faced, savanna-adapted and unusual-looking African antelope that are native to more than 25 African countries—are on a downhill...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Wildlife: Rare South American Bush Dogs Spotted in Costa Rica

Stories of animals venturing into and enjoying new places have been one bright spot during the COVID-19 worldwide pandemic of 2020. But even before we had...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Nature Finally Talks Back—Redux

Throughout history, philosophers have construed the universe in many ways, and one of the oldest is to see it made up by pairs of opposites. For example, art...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

To Prevent the Next Pandemic, Protect Nature

Spreading around the world at the speed of light, COVID-19 has now infected more than 2.5 million people and killed almost 177,000. Although the virus’s...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

10 Tips for Spotting Local Wildlife in the Time of Coronavirus

Nature has always been a source of solace and healing, and that fact takes on added significance today. As we all try to keep to ourselves in order to protect...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Elephants and Lions Align Against Rhinos

The term Africa’s Big Five means something quite different today than it did when it was coined in the late 1800s during the continent’s colonial period....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

How to Be a Better Environmentalist When Traveling

Like many of you, I suspect, I worry a lot about environmental issues: diminishing biodiversity, climate change, greenhouse gases and melting glaciers. Yet,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Rewilding Scotland’s Highlands with Wildcats

Bears, lynx, wolves and wildcats used to roam the lands that today make up Great Britain. European brown bears, however, have been extinct there since at...

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Hannah Wagner

What is Biodiversity and Why Does it Matter?

When I was little, I learned about dinosaurs and extinction in the same breath. Those tree trunk sized leg bones I saw at the museum belonged to animals that...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change Is Affecting Alaska’s Salmon—and Its Bears

Katmai National Park is a realm of untrammeled rivers, pristine streams and clear lakes. The park and the greater Alaska Peninsula are part of the Bristol Bay...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Conservation or Preservation: Which Is Best for Now and in the Future?

In the environmental world, it’s sometimes characterized as the classic debate: should wild areas be preserved for their intrinsic qualities, or should they...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The New Mini Frogs of Madagascar

More than 350 types of frogs live in Madagascar, the world’s fourth largest island after Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo. The nation stretches across 226,917...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Norway Is the World’s First Nation to Ban Deforestation

Norway is the first country in the world to commit to no longer using any products that contribute to deforestation. That’s pretty remarkable, because while...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

See World Heritage Sites with Natural Habitat Adventures

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) defines world heritage as “our legacy from the past, what we live with today,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Put Your Fears on Ice, and Travel to the Cold Places

A small ice rink, created by flooding a flat piece of ground in front of the elementary school that was just two blocks from my home when I was a child, never...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Emperor Penguins’ Big Air Down South

The Earth’s poles have a special kind of pull on me—sometimes called the “ice blink”—and that’s why on this Christmas Eve, I’m thinking of them. At this time...

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