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13 Conservation Success Stories of 2022

Wildfires. Global warming. Floods. Pollution. Mass extinctions. With the 24-hour news cycle constantly spouting negative headlines about the state of the...

Ruksana Hussain

International Jaguar Day—Just in Time?

Of the seven big cats, jaguars just don’t seem to get the love that more well-known felines like lions, tigers and leopards do. (The other three? Cougars,...

Megan Brief

How to Spot Jaguars in the Wild

More than 1,200 rivers converge to feed the Pantanal, the world’s largest tropical wetland. That’s 42 million acres of aquatic habitat spread across three...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could Greenland’s Past Be the Amazon’s Future?

One of the great mysteries of late medieval history is why did the Norse, who had established successful settlements in southern Greenland in 985, abandon...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

We Can Have Both: Clean Energy and Conservation Programs

Our planet’s climate is changing before our eyes. Weather events have gotten more extreme, and we’re in the midst of a sixth mass extinction. Unfortunately,...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

World Environment Day 2022: Defeating Deforestation

“Only one Earth. In the universe are billions of galaxies, in our galaxy are billions of planets, but there is #OnlyOneEarth. Let’s take care of it." That’s...

Cathy Brown

Saving Sloths, Fishing Cats & Armadillos: Young Conservationists Win Future For Nature Award 2022

Wildfires, flooding, drought, deforestation, pollution—it seems like every time we turn on the television, the radio, or log onto social media, we are...

Maddi Higgins

5 Strange Species to See in Brazil’s Pantanal

National Geographic called Brazil’s Pantanal “the Wild Wet,” an appropriate name for a vast area of untouched wetlands teeming with wildlife. The region is...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Found: Fishing Jaguars in Brazil’s Phenomenal Pantanal

At more than 81,000 square miles—greater than 10 times the size of Florida’s Everglades—the Pantanal, located mostly in Brazil, is the largest tropical...

Cathy Brown

Brazil’s Cerrado Biome and the Story of the Maned Wolf

In between the Amazon, Atlantic Forests and the Pantanal lies the Cerrado biome in the highlands of Central Brazil—the largest savanna region in all of South...

Cathy Brown

What’s the Difference Between Jaguars, Leopards and Black Panthers?

Jaguar vs. Leopard The jaguar vs. the leopard—these two magnificent spotted big cats are both members of the Panthera genus, are muscular ambush predators and...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Mountains Are the Center for Earth’s Biodiversity

Despite the fact that we are currently experiencing the Earth’s sixth mass extinction crisis, I take great solace in knowing that life here is still amazingly...

Madison Mitchell

Guide to Sustainable Holiday Travel

Whether you’re headed home for the holidays or celebrating with a vacation, you will be traveling during one of the most chaotic times of the year. As we...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Clarifying the Confounding Words of Climate Change

Carbon neutral. Mitigation. Tipping point. Unprecedented transition. If asked, could you explicitly define the terms above, words that are often used in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Finding New Life in a Pandemic. I Call That "Hope."

We’re living in an age of great biodiversity loss. And we’re trying to make our way through a worldwide pandemic on top of it. Some days, it seems like life...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

Better Together: Native Knowledge and Western Science

Throughout the United States, Native Americans own and/or manage nearly 95 million acres of deserts and forests, grasslands and mountains—much of it in...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

You Don’t Have to Be a Nature Expert to Love It

There’s the old maxim that you must know something to love it. And we’ve certainly heard that regarding nature: that if we don’t expose people—particularly...

Candice Gaukel Andrews

The Loudest Bird on the Planet Lives in the Amazon

Some animals are known for being loud; for example, howler monkeys are said to be aptly named. When a number of them let loose their lungs in concert, the din...