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The Best Places to See 10 Iconic American Animals
With summer upon us, it’s time to go looking for America’s iconic wildlife. I’ve focused on the critters that people love to look for in our national parks. The creatures that adorn t-shirts and make...
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Bontebok Can’t Jump: The Most Dramatic Conservation Success You’ve Never...
Make a list of the best-known African animals, and the bontebok isn’t going to make the cut. Chances are, you’ve never even heard of this antelope. But the bontebok deserves a place in the annals of...
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5 Simple Tips to Turn Your Yard Into Pollinator Paradise
When I stepped outside this morning, our yard was abuzz – literally – with activity. Bumble bees, wasps, butterflies and moths hovered over the plentiful flowers. Pollinator paradise. Summer is the...
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This Fur Seal is 4,000 Miles From Home. Here’s Why.
This fur seal was recently caught (and released) from a fisher’s net in Kenya – more than 4,000 miles from its home. It’s farther north than any Subantarctic fur seal has ever been recorded, by 115...
View ArticleDeer Management Solutions: It Takes a Village. Literally.
Have you met the new neighbors? They just moved in across the street. Right away they took to wandering up and down the block, helping themselves to whatever they could find to eat: that arbor vitae in...
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Indigos Return: A Florida Breeding Program Raises Eastern Indigo Snakes for...
Something’s moving — I can hear soft bumps and faint slithering coming from the stacked rows of 70-odd bins in the center of the room. The crisp label on the edge of each tray reads: D. couperi. More...
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Camera Trap Meets Studio Lighting: Stunning Images and the Story Behind Them
This is not your usual backyard camera trapping. You’ve undoubtedly seen the images I mean: grainy, dark photos of elusive critters passing in the night. Sure, they’re cool. And they are often provide...
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Recovery: Rare Turtle Gets a Second Chance
“Conservation” is no longer enough. Instead of just saving what’s left we need to restore what’s lost. Neither I nor half a dozen of my colleagues at the Massachusetts Division of Fisheries and Game...
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Scientists (Re)Re-discover the Australian Night Parrot. Now What?
April 4, 2015. Ornithologist Steve Murphy and Rachel Barr are tramping through the bush at a secret location in southwestern Queensland, Australia. And after searching for 18 months, they’ve finally...
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Angry Birds: Why Molting Makes Our Feathered Friends Grumpy
Perhaps you’re familiar with having a “bad hair day.” For birds, “bad feather days” – what we call molting – are a part of life. And those days are not easy. In fact, it can make birds downright...
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Try Something Gnu: Watch Camera Traps and Help Wildebeest
What Is Wildebeest Watch? Wildebeest may not seem like private animals: after all, they’re one of the most frequent subjects of nature documentaries. They roam in huge herds in very open areas. But...
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Mandrill on the Menu: What is the Value of a Wild Animal?
Notes from the field: March 22, 2015 – rural highway from Lambaréné to Libreville, Gabon “Wait, stop! That was a mandrill!” That exclamation from my colleague cut sharply through the pop songs on the...
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The Ten Creepiest Spiders of North America
Spiders don’t really need any help in the creepy department, as the ten featured on this list attest. Nor do they need myths or horror stories to make them scarier. But that doesn’t stop people from...
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Outtakes: From Inside the World’s Biggest Bat Cave
Contrary to the old saying, bats are not blind. So photographer Karine Aigner had to be careful when capturing images for a Nature Conservancy magazine story about protecting Texas’ Bracken Cave, home...
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Hungry for Change: Deer Management and Food Security
Communities across the US are turning to hunting to help get deer numbers under control. A waste of good venison? Hardly. In fact many local deer management programs donate their harvests to local food...
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Can Helicopter-deployed Toad Sausages Save Australia’s Northern Quoll?
The fight against invasive species takes a bizarre and creative twist: Conservationists are saving endangered marsupials by throwing drugged amphibian sausages out of helicopters. You read that right....
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Binge on Turkey with One of the Greatest Nature Movies, Ever
Have you had your fill of parades and football games? Are you looking for another TV-watching tradition for your family this Thanksgiving weekend? Here’s my suggestion for a new holiday tradition:...
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Good News for Elephants: How These Communities Reduced Poaching by 35 Percent
Here’s rare good news for African elephants: In northern Kenya, elephant poaching on community conservancies has been reduced by 35 percent since 2012. The poaching reduction, according to a report...
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Connecting the Tigers
It turns out that – when it comes to protecting India’s tigers – size matters, just not in the way most people might think. Large protected areas are clearly important for such a wide-ranging,...
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Roadkill on the Ocean Highway: Can Experimental Fishing Reduce Sea Turtle...
Imagine our oceans as a highway — a deep, long highway that wraps all the way around the world. Seventeenth and eighteenth century mariners’ logs recorded traffic jams on that undersea highway. Traffic...
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