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The Largest Migration on Earth Is Vertical
Every night on Earth, a great migration takes place. It’s bigger than the ones of caribou, wildebeest or zebras on land or Arctic terns in the air. But while this stupendous, nightly migration overshadows
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Carnivore Stories from Botswana
Botswana is one of five adjacent countries within whose borders lies KAZA, the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, the world’s largest transboundary conservation area. While KAZA is important as the stronghold of half of Africa’s
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Wildlife Photo of the Week: Wildebeests in the Sunset
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we selected a herd of wildebeests at sunset in Botswana. Photographer Deborah Carter captured this stunning
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Amazing Wildlife Images From a Kenya Photo Safari
Kenya’s Great Migration is one of the most photogenic events on the planet. The migration includes vast herds of wildebeest, zebra and elephants, as well as lions and leopards hunting their prey. Spectacular bird life is
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Increasing Bad Behavior around Wildlife: Are More Regulations Needed?
Witnessing any of nature’s great spectacles—such as the wildebeest migration of Africa, the wintering grounds of millions of monarch butterflies in Mexico or thousands of sea turtles coming ashore from the Pacific Ocean to lay
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Video: Red-Tailed Hawk and Bull Snake Mix-Up
Predator meeting prey is part of the circle of life in nature. All living organisms need nutrition to produce the energy required to run their systems. Sometimes that predator-prey relationship is extremely clear, such
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Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals: Powerful Protections or Paper Tigers?
From the tiny monarch butterfly to the immense wildebeest of Africa, many of the world’s animal species take on great migrations. Those epic travels may involve seasonal journeys of thousands of miles, traversing multiple
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Wildebeests No Longer Hold the Record for Longest Terrestrial Migration: Zebras Take Over the Title
Africa’s Great Migration has long been a symbol of the continent’s abundant wildlife. The Serengeti Plains fill with millions of wildebeests and other animals, all traveling from the Ngorongoro region in Tanzania to the
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