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Indigenous Lands Are Critical for Mammal Conservation
A new analysis reveals the importance of indigenous lands to global mammal conservation.
Bowerbirds: Meet the Bird World’s Kleptomaniac Love Architects
They display, they dance, and they collect baubles like a jealous hoarder. Meet Australia’s incredible bowerbirds.
Slow Birding: Twenty Years Observing Ring Ouzels
Two British birders set out to better understand one secretive bird species. And are still at it 20 years later.
When Only a Hippopotamus Will Do
Hippos for the holidays? Some weird stories of human-hippo relations.
Operation Ponderosa: Saving a Forest, Pandemic Edition
An inspiring solo adventure to help save Texas’s ponderosa pines.
Mapping the Way to Better Conservation in the Caribbean
For the first time, scientists have mapped all the shallow underwater habitats across 30 Caribbean countries and territories.
50 Fish, 50 States: Cutthroat Connections
A search for native cutthroats offers connections in a crazy year.
Meet the Dipper, the Songbird That Swims
Meet North America’s only aquatic songbird.
50 Fish, 50 States: Yellowstone’s Native Fish
Yellowstone’s large mammals get the attention, but the park’s underwater wildlife is special, too.
There’s a Python Living in My Rain Gutter
Pythons in the house?! When a birdfeeder attracts more than just birds.
Earth Transformed: Mapping of Global Human Modification from 1990 to 2017
Between 1990 and 2015, humans have modified an area of land greater than the size of Russia.
When Logging Stops, Does Biodiversity Benefit?
Protecting logging concessions could be a valuable tool for biodiversity conservation.