Science Stories

  • Snow leopard research breathes new life into community conservation in Nepal

    July 05, 2016

    Just beyond the remote mountain village of Yangma in the high Himalayas of eastern Nepal, Nepali conservationists fitted a female snow leopard with a GPS collar. The collar will allow scientists to track this snow leopard’s movements daily for the next year, which will help us learn more about these mysterious and endangered cats. This female becomes the third snow leopard collared near Yangma since 2013, the first two having both been males.

    setting up gear to collar a snow leopard
  • WWF's Arnaud Lyet on measuring wildlife populations

    WWF Magazine: Summer 2016
    Using scientific modeling to gauge the real state of wildlife populations
    Arnaud Lyet sitting in a chair
  • DNA Extraction Turns a Soggy Polar Bear Footprint into an Exciting Ecological Discovery

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2015
    A partnership between researchers, scientists and WWF looks at biodiversity by the spoonful
    Polar Bear Footprint in a spoon
  • Polar Bear Research between Two Countries

    WWF Magazine: Spring 2015
    US and Russian biologists team up on polar bear research
    helicopter in alaska
  • Illegal Fishing Puts Crab Populations at Risk

    October 16, 2014

    A new WWF study has revealed populations of crab in the Russian Far East are at risk of collapse due to overharvest from illegal fishing.

    pulling in crab pot
  • Telling a Good Story with Maps

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2014
    WWF's Nasser Olwero explains why people need to use maps more
    nasser profile
  • Zebras on the Move

    WWF Magazine: Winter 2014
    Quick work leads to discovery of Africa's longest land-mammal migration
    zebras aerial
  • Citizen Scientists Saving Snow Leopards

    July 15, 2014

    WWF has found a way to protect the snow leopard while also benefiting nomadic herders. As part of the USAID-funded Conservation and Adaptation in Asia’s High Mountain Landscapes and Communities (AHM) project, local herders like Byambatsooj are now being trained and equipped to collect basic data on the remote mountains they know better than anyone else.

    camera trap set up
  • Protecting the Amazon for life

    May 21, 2014

    A model for conservation, the Amazon Region Protected Areas ensures 150 million acres—three times the size of all US parks combined—of the Amazon are protected for life.

    Amazon
  • Dance-Worthy Statistics

    WWF Magazine: Summer 2014
    WWF’s Louise Glew on the social impacts of conservation
    glew portrait