Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: Watch as Robotic Animals Secretly “Spy” on Wildlife

Camera traps, GPS tracking and radio-collaring are all tools that researchers have traditionally used to study the wildlife that shares the planet with us....

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WWF

Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Matt Erke

Matt Erke serves as an Program Officer for WWF's Forest Program. Matt tells about how travel opened his eyes to the incredible beauty and power of nature. 1....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Quickly Losing Protections: Our Birds, Lands and Oceans

One hundred and eleven years ago, the American Antiquities Act of 1906 was passed. It authorizes the president to designate federally managed lands as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Good News for Climate Change: World’s First Carbon-Capturing Plant Opens

In 628 months, there hasn’t been a cool one. That’s more than 52 years. “Global warming has made cold scarce,” writes Brian Kahn in an April 19, 2017, article...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Rediscovering Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree”

While cleaning one of my bookshelves yesterday, I found a copy of the children’s classic The Giving Tree. It’s hard to believe it’s been 53 years since author...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

Last Monarch Butterfly Migration?

As I described in a previous post, On a Wing and a Prayer, the monarch butterfly is one of the most amazing and delicate insects on our planet. But will they...

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Nick Grossman

Nat Hab Employees Help Build a Trail in Boulder County

On a sunny spring morning in the Colorado foothills, 18 Natural Habitat Adventures office employees grabbed some tools and got to work building a new trail on...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Global Seed Vault Fails: “Permanently Frozen” Isn’t Anymore

Anything in deep freeze was supposed to be safe—for forever. Such as our toxic wastes. Such as the crop seeds we’ll need in case of a global catastrophe and...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Bison Return to Wyoming’s Wind River Reservation

Bison, our national mammal, have returned to more of their homeland. On November 3, 2016, 10 bison were released on the 2.2-million-acre Wind River...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

“Going Rogue” for the National Park Service, Science and Trees

Going rogue. Since 1835, that phrase has been used to describe elephants that exhibit violent behavior, whether through injury or from being separated from...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Videos: White Deer, the Ghosts of the Forest

Throughout history, people have been fascinated by wild animals that are all white. True to tradition, in Wisconsin, where I live, residents have a special...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Fighting for Monuments, Refuges and Water—Again and Again

Once a national monument is designated to conserve a landscape and its cultural history, once a natural habitat is legally protected to save wildlife, or once...

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About Galapagos

Charles Darwin, Natural History & the Galapagos Islands

[Excerpts from Adventure Guide to Ecuador & the Galapagos Islands, by Peter D. Krahenbuhl] One of the most amazing and interesting facts about the...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

White, Wild Animals and Why Difference Shouldn’t Be Wrong

A framed photo that hung on a wall of my grandfather’s large dining room is one of my earliest memories. Sepia-toned, it depicted a herd of deer, taken in...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

The World’s Greatest Tiger Destination—In Photos

The Indian subcontinent is one of the world's most stimulating travel destinations. While its mélange of human cultures has long drawn the attention of global...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: The Health Benefits of Forest Bathing

I have always loved forests. I don’t know where that comes from. But whenever I’m in one, I feel as though I can finally breathe in the way I was meant to...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

After Earth Day 2017: An Alphabet from Outer Space

On Saturday, the world celebrated Earth Day 2017. This one took on a different demeanor from Earth Days in our recent past. Reminiscent of the first Earth Day...

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Wendy Redal

Disneynature’s New “Born in China” Film Supports WWF

When I arrived in China for the first time, I thought I was prepared for how urbanized, westernized and...

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