Court Whelan, Ph.D.

Monarch Butterflies are Making a Rebound

Newsworthy, noteworthy, and utterly fascinating. Monarch butterflies routinely make the news—for good reason. The migration of the monarch butterfly is...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Bison Named Our National Mammal: Bad Omen for the Species?

We now have a national mammal, and it’s Bison bison. On Monday, May 9, 2016, President Obama signed the National Bison Legacy Act, honoring American bison...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: River Set on Fire in an Area with Fracking

A picture is worth a thousand words—or at least that’s the idea behind the actions of Jeremy Buckingham, a Greens Party member of the Australian Parliament....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

What Size Wilderness?

Scarface is dead. Otherwise known as Bear No. 211, the Yellowstone National Park bruin was shot and killed just outside the park in Gallatin National Forest...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Listen, and You Might Actually Hear Climate Change

The image of a polar bear stranded on an ice floe. Herds of thousands of walruses hauled out on land, deprived of their sunning platforms of choice: sea ice....

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Tania Curry

Q-and-A with WWF: Nepal, One Year after the Earthquake

In 2015, Shubash Lohani, Director of Sustainable Landscapes within WWF’s Forests team, was traveling through Nepal & Bhutan with a group of WWF...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: “The Messenger” Movie’s Memo about Songbirds

Imagine a world without birdsong. That’s the scenario a new documentary, titled The Messenger, wants you to envision, because it could actually happen sooner...

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Tania Curry

12 Natural World Heritage Sites to Visit this Year

Nearly half – 114 out of 229 – of all natural World Heritage sites are threatened by harmful industrial activities, according to a new WWF report. However,...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Recreation vs. Conservation in National Parks: Will Enjoyment Equal Support?

When President Woodrow Wilson signed the act creating the National Park Service on August 25, 1916, I doubt he anticipated that one of the statute’s words...

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Kendal Bower

Encounters with the Wild Patagonian Puma

It was our first evening at EcoCamp Patagonia when we saw it—our first puma. Relaxing on a cool evening, a female puma lay at the bottom of a large hill...

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Tania Curry

Good News: Increase in Wild Tiger Global Estimate

According to the best available data, around 3,890 tigers exist in the wild. This is an increase from the global estimate in 2010 which counted as few as...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Clouds Can Help Find Threatened and Endangered Species

Cloud-gazing is, perhaps, a lost pastime. Before the Internet grabbed their attentions and took up most of their time, children would lie back on a summer day...

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Peter Davis Krahenbuhl

See and Save Sea Turtles

The Galapagos Islands is one of the last remaining refuges for endangered sea turtles, nature's ancient and intrepid mariners. Globally, there are seven...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Climate Change and the Astronaut: the Endgame

If you got the news that, best-case scenario, you only had 12 to 18 months to live, I’m guessing you might quit your job and spend your final days traveling,...

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WWF

The Importance of Seeing Polar Bears in the Wild

I never truly appreciated the importance of the polar bear as a mascot for global warming and climate change until I saw these magnificent creatures up close...

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: Protecting Nature’s Cleanup Crews, the Vultures

Because of many, current cultural biases around the world, vultures don’t immediately bring up in us feelings of empathy and likability. But they should....

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Candice Gaukel Andrews

Video: the Interrelated and Networked Earth

Environmental philosopher and early national park advocate John Muir wrote in his 1911 book, My First Summer in the Sierra, “When we try to pick out anything...

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iSafari

A sign of hope: Rare Western Lowland Gorilla Twins Born

At World Wildlife Fund (WWF) conservation program site in Dzanga-Sangha in the Central African Republic (CAR), researchers and environmentalists have worked...

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