Stories

In June 2024, the Eskimo Walrus Commission coordinated with US Fish and Wildlife Service and US Geological Survey to bring Dana James, a St. Lawrence Island Yupik hunter from Gambell (Sivuqaq), on the 2024 Pacific walrus research cruise.

Nepal has announced its national estimate of the elusive snow leopard population, marking a major milestone in the conservation of this iconic Himalayan species. This landmark assessment, which compiled data from seven study regions, estimates Nepal’s snow leopard population at 397 individuals, a relatively stable population for the region. It’s the first robust estimate of the country’s snow leopard population, which until now, were only guestimates based on sign surveys—surveys of snow leopard tracks, scat, and tree scrapes—and habitat modeling. This information will be vital for informing future conservation strategies to conserve this threatened species.

It's common knowledge that the monarch butterfly is in trouble. However, like the causes themselves, the story of why the charismatic insect isn't faring well has evolved.

In a park in British Columbia, Canada, WWF scientist Robin Naidoo has spent the past eight years using hidden cameras to capture how people and wildlife share the same trails. The pictures depict how human recreation and wildlife movement overlap.

In their own words, river communities—and bioeconomy entrepreneurs—share their commitment to protecting their Amazon home

Conservationists have introduced the IUCN Green Status, a new global standard that gauges the success of conservation efforts by assessing species’ population recovery and ecological functionality.

It wasn’t until Irenilse Batista Sousa researched her roots that she understood what it was to be Kumaruara.

To permanently protect 150 million acres of the Brazilian Amazon, Brazil established the Amazon Region Protected Areas (ARPA) program in 2002.

The state of Assam in northeast India is home to the second-largest Asian elephant population in India. The landscapes in Assam have rapidly transformed over the last two decades into a diverse mosaic of forests, crop fields, human settlements, and tea plantations that grow the famed Assam tea. Elephants and many other wildlife species are now finding their historical corridors and forest habitats fragmented and destroyed. This is pushing people and wildlife into closer proximity to each other, resulting in increased negative, and often dangerous interactions.

The planet is drowning in plastic, with dire impacts on wildlife, ecosystems, and human health. Could a landmark global treaty help turn the tide?

Before traveling to Patagonia, I imagined a long, narrow chain of dramatic peaks and calving glaciers.

Last September, two tigers named Bodhana and Kuma stepped into a new enclosure—and into history.

Emerging data highlight how forest destruction and fragmentation can encourage transmission of zoonotic diseases.

Scroll through social media, and you’re bound to spot an “exotic pet,” an animal companion that isn’t a farm animal or a domesticated dog or cat.

I spent much of my childhood making my mother nervous. Every weekend, she’d drive me to our local nature center, where I’d climb trees and rocks, wade in the creek, and dream of adventure.

Park and WWF-supported NGOs provide employment, education, health care, and human rights assistance to local people—many of them Indigenous—which contribute to regional security.

Richie Mehta is the creative mind behind Poacher, a new eight-part series about crime-fighting conservationists who took on India’s biggest elephant poaching ring between 2015 and 2017.

Barn swallows might seem like ordinary birds at first glance, but one well-timed photo can reveal their grace, beauty, and mastery of the sky.

The truth is that plastic waste is choking our planet. It’s polluting the air, water, and soil that people and wildlife depend on.

Mai Thi Huyen, an employee at the Nguyen Phong factory in the Annamite Mountains, slides a board of acacia wood through an industrial ripsaw.

Marco Gaiotti discovered his passion for nature photography gradually, over years of travel to remote places.

Here are four truths that drive Lisa’s work.

The Colorado Rockies were outside my window as I was growing up. That proximity to something so magical gave me an early, deep appreciation for the wonder of nature.