Nature & Wildlife
5 Apex Predators and Where to Find Them
An apex predator is the hardcore animal at the top of its food chain, the baddest of the bad, with few or no natural predators in its ecosystem.
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Conservation
International Day for Biological Diversity: Discover Earth’s Biodiversity Hotspots</br>with Nat Hab
Exactly one month after Earth Day, on May 22, global communities join in solidarity to celebrate the International Day for Biological Diversity.
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Asia & The Pacific
6 Facts About the “Original Pandas” for International Red Panda Day
Whether you’re a red panda fan because you’ve seen them at your local zoo, or because your tween has watched Disney’s “Turning Red” movie umpteen times, you don’t want to miss International Red Panda Day on September 16, 2023.
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Asia & The Pacific
100 Years of Snow Leopard Research
The snow leopard has captured the interest of wildlife biologists, conservationists and the communities around northern and central Asia’s high mountains for centuries. This big cat has adapted to thrive in one of the world’s tallest mountainous regions, the Himalayas. The shy and solitary snow leopard is an elusive creature.
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Asia & The Pacific
What Does a Snow Leopard Researcher Do?
Samundra Subba is a research officer at WWF Nepal with a focus on large carnivores—primarily tigers and snow leopards. He’s joined six satellite telemetry expeditions of snow leopards. The mountains are calling and I must go For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an affinity for the wild—a love affair, if you must.
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Nature & Wildlife
Kingdom of Bhutan – Nature Lover’s Paradise?
It’s hard to imagine that a tiny, landlocked country in the Eastern Himalayas about half the size of Indiana could be rich in wildlife, but in the Kingdom of Bhutan you couldn’t be more wrong.
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Conservation
Field guide: Searching for snow leopards
Republished with permission from WWF-Canada. To see the original article, please go here. By Steph Morgan, WWF-Canada If you’re looking for a snow leopard, Dr. Rinjan Shrestha can tell you where to go. The question is: are you tough enough to get there?
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Travel Tips
Ten Interesting Facts about Bhutan
1. One of 43 landlocked countries in the world, Bhutan is about half the size of the state of Indiana. 2. The word “Bhutan” translates to “Land of the Thunder Dragon.” It earned the nickname because of the fierce storms that often roll in from the Himalayas.
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News & More
Landscapes in Our Genes: Tibetans Exhibit the Fastest Genetic Change Ever Observed in Humans
Is there a certain landscape that’s in your blood? Is it the one you were born to, or the one that never fails to inspire you?
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Videos
Video: Bhutan’s Tigers Do Live High
It started with some anecdotal stories from villagers. Although tigers were known to live in the Himalayan foothills of Bhutan, no one believed that they resided any higher up the mountain—until some rumors from locals started surfacing.
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Nature & Wildlife
Natural Treasure Discovered in the Himalayas
Just as an amateur explorer with a metal detector recently found an astonishing hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver in England’s Midlands, scientists have discovered a biological treasure trove in the Eastern Himalayas.