Candice Gaukel Andrews

Despite Cold Temperatures, the Earth Burns and the Arctic Is Lost

It’s the day after New Year’s, and we’re just entering into 2018. In Times Square last night, according to the Associated Press, it was the second-coldest New...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: A Post-Holiday, Hot-Springs Retreat with Japan’s Snow Monkeys

The Christmas holiday is over—just barely. Feeling a little exhausted after all the preparations, family gatherings and parties? Then, a nice soak in a hot...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Reverence of Zion National Park

It was love at first sight when I met Utah's Zion National Park. With its massive, rock behemoths and soothing-sounding, dripping-water canyons that sprout...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“Bird Years” and the Year of the Bird, 2018

Wildlife science has many measurements; for example, “carrying capacity,” “depredations” or “translocations.” But there’s a new scale I recently came across:...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

106-Year-Old Fruitcake Found in Antarctica

For a food that has been around at least since the Middle Ages, fruitcakes certainly have their share of detractors. The long list of jokes about fruitcakes—a...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

2017: Warm Fall, Cold Winter. It’s Still Climate Change.

Fall 2017 will officially come to a close in just about two weeks. It was probably one of the warmest falls that you can remember. That’s why it may be hard...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Creating a New National Park: Possible or Pipe Dream?

Today, in the current political climate, with national parks falling into disrepair because of budget cuts and parks and monuments threatened with downsizing,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Whooping Cranes and a Bold Experiment

In 1942, there were fewer than 20 whooping cranes left alive in the world. Their habitats were vanishing, and they had been hunted almost to extinction. If we...

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WWF

Green Future for Bhutan’s Forests

Bhutan, nestled in the Himalayas between China and India, is one of the smallest countries in the world. But don’t let its size fool you! The country’s...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Whooping Crane Recovery a Victim of Federal Budget Cuts

After more than 50 years, the largest captive-breeding-and-release program for whooping cranes is closing. Housed at the U.S. Geological Survey Eastern...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: One Tree’s Wildlife Visitors in One Year

I love trees, and I’m not alone. There are those of us that write letters to them, that single-handedly plant forests of them, or—in my case—write books about...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Dear Forests: Wish You Were Here—and That You’d Remain

This summer, the world lost a Nebraska-size chunk of forests. Logging, expanding palm oil plantations and wildfires are to blame. This continuing...

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Natural Habitat Adventures

Keeping It Local: Nat Hab Fallfest 2017

On the last weekend of September, the cottonwoods along Colorado’s Arkansas River were in full fall glory, burnished gold against the cobalt blue sky and...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Endangered Orangutans of Borneo

Known as “the man of the forest,” the unique, colorful, highly intelligent orangutan went from an estimated 300,000 individuals in 1900 to only a handful of...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Rare and Raw: Wild Wolverine Video

Wolverines are exceedingly rare. It’s estimated that less than 250 of them still roam the Lower 48, almost exclusively in the rugged Rocky Mountains and North...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Could Reintroducing Lynx to Great Britain Revive Ecotourism?

It’s a story too often told. Once, a predator roamed wildlands and then was relentlessly hunted to extinction or to the brink of it. In the Lower 48, the...

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WWF

Nowhere to Hide

Poachers, beware: High tech has its eye on you from dusk to dawn. And arrests are racking up steadily, thanks to a new night vision camera that’s policing...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Reforestation, One Nation and One Person at a Time

Around the world, deforestation is causing millions of species to lose their natural habitats. Estimates are that tracts half the size of England are lost...

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