Animal Privacy Rights: Monitoring Wildlife Out of Existence
As the field of electronic wildlife-tracking has grown, so has our knowledge about the lives of animals. Through GPS collaring and trail cams, we’ve learned that zebras undertake the longest...
View ArticleContrary World: Science Education, Pipelines and Wildlife
Now, when I wake up in the mornings, I feel as if I’m just about to step foot into a truly either-or, binary-only, black-or-white, contrary world; a world where every advance forward in science or in...
View ArticleRushing into a World without Gray Wolves or Grizzly Bears
Grizzly bears and wolves. Other than bison, does America have any mammals more representative of our nation? Unfortunately for them, grizzly bears and wolves are predators, and that sets them apart...
View ArticleTraveler Story: Yellowstone: Ultimate Wolf & Wildlife Safari
“The first photo of my fellow travelers looking through spotting scopes really captured our daily routine on our Yellowstone: Ultimate Wolf & Wildlife Safari. We saw wolves four out of five days,...
View ArticlePhoto Essay: Winter Wildlife in Yellowstone National Park
By Mac Mirabile, WWF I recently returned from an unforgettable wolf photo safari trip in Yellowstone National Park. While wolves were certainly our main target each day, there were ample opportunities...
View ArticleWolves & Winter Wildlife of Yellowstone
Three wolf pups with freakishly large paws roll around in a furry pile while adults sleep peacefully nearby. Wolf pack members tear apart a bloody elk carcass with calculated precision. A young male...
View ArticleCould 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 histories of bison, gray wolves, beavers,...
View ArticleVideo: 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 them. The reasons we have for so loving...
View ArticleRanching in Wolf Territory: A New Approach
Conflict between wolves and ranchers is just about as old as, well, as there have been ranchers in the West. Wolves were nearly hunted, poisoned and trapped to extinction in the Lower 48 a few decades...
View ArticleEastern Cougars Declared Extinct. Will It Help Reintroduction Efforts?
Eastern cougars (Puma concolor couguar) were officially declared extinct last week, on January 22, 2018. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has now removed them from the Endangered Species...
View ArticleVideo: Yellowstone Bear Bathtub
It seems that the snow monkeys of Japan aren’t the only animals that seek out baths. In 2016, National Geographic set up some camera traps at the “bear bathtub,” a natural swimming hole in Yellowstone...
View ArticleWildlife Photo of the Week: Howling
Every Friday, we choose our favorite photo of the week from our Wildlife Photo of the Day website. This week we chose a howling wolf. Photographer Stacy Howell was photographing wolves in Yellowstone...
View ArticleNew Zealand Builds Gyms for “Problem” Birds
In the United States, it often seems, there is only one method for dealing with “problem” animals. Whether it’s Canada geese, grizzly bears or wolves, our first impulse is to eradicate them. That’s not...
View ArticleOur Best Public Land Defenders Have Feathers, Fins or Fur
Saving natural and wild areas from development and for the use of people like you and me is usually thought to be thanks to endeavors such as national park unit designations, wilderness area...
View ArticleVideo: Life in the Cold—Photographing Arctic Animals
“Thousands of years of evolution have prepared Arctic species like the polar bear, walrus and narwhal for life on and around the sea ice,” states World Wildlife Fund on its Arctic wildlife web page....
View ArticleMore Animals and More Biodiversity Mean More CO2 Storing
Forests are important in our warming world. As we burn fossil fuels—such as coal, gas and oil—and cut down and burn forests for agricultural fields, the released carbon dioxide spreads across the...
View ArticleThe National Park Service: Big Wonders in Small Spots
If I asked you to name your favorite National Park Service (NPS) places, you’d probably immediately mention parks such as Grand Canyon National Park, Yosemite National Park, Yellowstone National Park,...
View ArticleAudio Tale: Wolf Encounter in Glacier Bay National Park
One summer morning, while camping on an island far off the beaten path in Glacier Bay National Park in Alaska, naturalist Richard Nelson and a friend set off in kayaks and paddled toward the mainland...
View ArticleTraveler Story: Wolves of the Lamar Valley and Beyond
Nat Hab travelers Lois O. Gray and Kay Gilmour recently journeyed on our Hidden Yellowstone Photo Safari and shared details of their encounters with wolves in the Lamar Valley and other wildlife along...
View ArticleThe Year-Round Land of Evergreens: the Taiga
It’s mid-January, the time some people call the “doldrums,” a period of feeling low energy and a lack of motivation after the Christmas and New Year season of celebration and parties. It can be brought...
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