Candice Gaukel Andrews

Pablo Escobar’s Hippos: Ecosystem Restorers and Legal Plaintiffs

In the 1980s, Colombian cocaine kingpin and drug trafficker Pablo Escobar purchased four hippopotamuses for his private zoo. After he died in 1993, the...

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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...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A Sense of Rhythm: Birds, Lemurs, Whales and Us

You probably do it in the car. Some of us do it in the shower. And when no one else is home, a good number of us might even do it in front of the mirror with...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Like Us, Pandas Need a Sense of Wanderlust

As you travelers know, a sense of wanderlust can be highly beneficial for your personal growth and well-being. It can challenge your long-held assumptions,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Drones: Weighing Whales and Assessing Associations

Baleen whales, which include species such as blue and gray whales, are the largest animals on Earth. Their hefty body masses, in fact, are central to their...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Yellowstone: Restoring Wolves Revived Willows

Ever since the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park in 1995, there has been controversy and debate about the benefits and ecosystem services...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listing, Mapping—and Changing—All Animals

Just exactly how many species are there in our big, diverse world? And where, precisely, do they live? While all of us have probably wondered about such...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Makes People Want to Save the Planet? Facts or Stories?

Now five decades old, the modern American environmental movement began in the 1960s and was sanctioned as an official epoch in 1970 with the creation of Earth...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

A New Whale Species Is Found Living in the Gulf of Mexico

Whales are fascinating beings. After living on the land for a while, their ancestors chose to go back to the sea; they have their own, complicated cultures;...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Wildfires Restore Yosemite and a Video View of the Park

During the drought conditions in the summer of 2021, wildfires raged throughout the western U.S. For example, as of September 12, 2021, the Dixie Fire is the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Parks, People, a Pandemic and Problem-Solving

Being able to get away to a park—whether national, state or local—played an important role in mental and physical health for a lot of us during the first...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News: Pikas Now Predicted to Persist

A relative of rabbits, tiny, cute and charismatic American pikas typically live in cool, mountain environments and find refuge from the hot sun under boulders...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Somewhat Noble Call of a Snow Leopard

We’re all familiar with this movie scene: a bald eagle soars overhead in a wild, Western-type, wide-open landscape, and we hear the iconic, piercing, strong...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

How Should Rhinos Be Relocated? Upside Down.

At times, wildlife conservationists do things that might look a bit strange or even questionable to the rest of us. And seeing a rhino tied by its legs and...

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Emily Goodheart

Canada Is Opening (and the Polar Bears Are Waiting)

I'm sure by now you've heard the news that so many of us have eagerly waited for—Canada will open its borders to vaccinated Americans on August 9th. We join...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

News on Kangaroos and an Australia Atlas of Nature

Kangaroos have become iconic poster children for Australia’s great outback. But although the kangaroo is a national emblem for the country, some locals also...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Your Africa Safari Photographs Could Help Save Wildlife

I have never been fortunate enough to go on an Africa safari, but I never tire of reading about the experiences of others who have visited the continent, such...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

People and Wildlife Need Each Other for Good Health

Here, looking out from the Anthropocene, we tend to regard nature as something other than ourselves. Wild places and wildlife, it seems, are commodities to be...

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