Indigenous Lands Are Critical for Mammal Conservation

A new analysis reveals the importance of indigenous lands to global mammal conservation.

Justine E. Hausheer

Story type: TNC Science Brief

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.

Justine E. Hausheer

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.

Matthew L. Miller

When Only a Hippopotamus Will Do

Hippos for the holidays? Some weird stories of human-hippo relations.

Matthew L. Miller

Operation Ponderosa: Saving a Forest, Pandemic Edition

An inspiring solo adventure to help save Texas’s ponderosa pines.

Matthew L. Miller

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.

Cara Cannon Byington

50 Fish, 50 States: Cutthroat Connections

A search for native cutthroats offers connections in a crazy year.

Matthew L. Miller

Meet the Dipper, the Songbird That Swims

Meet North America’s only aquatic songbird.

Justine E. Hausheer

50 Fish, 50 States: Yellowstone’s Native Fish

Yellowstone’s large mammals get the attention, but the park’s underwater wildlife is special, too.

Matthew L. Miller

There’s a Python Living in My Rain Gutter

Pythons in the house?! When a birdfeeder attracts more than just birds.

Justine E. Hausheer

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.

Matthew L. Miller

Story type: TNC Science Brief

When Logging Stops, Does Biodiversity Benefit?

Protecting logging concessions could be a valuable tool for biodiversity conservation.

Justine E. Hausheer

Story type: TNC Science Brief