Candice Gaukel Andrews

Giving Females Their Voices: Understudied Birdsong

One of my favorite environmental authors, Terry Tempest Williams, once wrote about an experience she had in 1994 when testifying before Congress on behalf of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Bighorn Sheep Return to Their Yosemite Homeland

John Muir revered them. Western settlers nearly wiped them out. The final chapter in the story of North America’s rarest sheep is yet to be written. Watch!

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Newly Discovered Yellowstone Migration

After a long winter—which still seems to be hanging on in some places—people are understandably anxious to get outside and get on the move again. Perhaps we...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Heartbeats and Songs of Trees

I’m a tree hugger from way back; in fact, you could say I was hugging trees before tree hugging was cool. So when a book titled The Songs of Trees recently...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: When Earth Was Warmer than We Have Ever Known

Close your eyes and picture a vivid green, lush rain forest that’s teeming with life. If I asked you where you imagined you were, your answer would probably...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video Encounters with Mystifying Greenland Sharks

Deepwater, mythic and prehistoric creatures, Greenland sharks inhabit the Atlantic Ocean, from Canada to Norway and off the coast of Scotland. When it comes...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mysterious Sharks: Great Gatherings and Long Lives

More than 400 shark species inhabit our planet. And while facts about some of them may be well-known to researchers and the rest of us, there are many shark...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Spirit Bear Videos: A Look into Lives of Peace and Harmony

According to legend, Raven went among the black bears and promised that every 10th bear cub would be born white as a reminder of the time when the world was...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: I Suck; You Probably Do, Too

Plastics were originally invented to save animals. Let that fact sink in for a moment because it's sadly ironic. Today, plastic plays a large part in killing...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

New Zealand Builds Gyms for “Problem” Birds

In the United States, it often seems, there is only one method for dealing with “problem” animals. Whether it’s Canada geese, grizzly bears or wolves, our...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Oceans and Plastics Pollution

Our oceans are sometimes referred to as our planet’s forgotten lungs. While forests—which usually get the credit for being the world’s “breathing”...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Small Things about Big Issues: Elephant Trophies Now Again Allowed into the U.S.

Sometimes, it’s the small, quiet things that rightly should command our utmost attention. Such a situation occurred on March 1, 2018, when the U.S. Fish and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: When Whales Walked

In our imaginations, nothing symbolizes our seas more than whales. These bigger-than-life creatures imbue our oceans with life, with song and with majesty,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

No More Wild Horses

Whenever I hear that a little piece of the wild has slipped away forever, it saddens me. And another small bit of it vanished recently. Or you could say,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Saiga Antelope Now Victims of Climate Change

In 2015, on the steppes of Kazakhstan, at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, more than 200,000 critically endangered saiga antelope suddenly died in a span of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: The Sun Bear, “He Who Likes to Sit High”

It’s ironic that an animal whose name includes the word sun would be a creature of the night. But once darkness descends, the Malayan sun bear (Helarctos...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Yellowstone Bear Bathtub

It seems that the snow monkeys of Japan aren’t the only animals that seek out baths. In 2016, National Geographic set up some camera traps at the “bear...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Eastern Cougars Declared Extinct. Will It Help Reintroduction Efforts?

Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now...

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