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Conservation Comeback: The California Condor
The California condor is a North American wildlife icon — the continent's largest land birds and one of nature's most industrious scavengers — and also one of our most critically endangered avian species.
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Conservation Comeback: The Gray Wolf
Our relationship with gray wolves is a complicated one, spanning centuries of tension and dating back to the beginning in the 1600s with North American colonization.
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Conservation Comeback: The American Alligator
The recovery of the American Alligator is considered one of the biggest success stories of an endangered species – ever.
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Conservation Comeback: The Northern Elephant Seal
Along the Pacific coastlines of North America, the Northern Elephant Seal may be a common sight in today's waters — but that wasn't always the case.
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‘Adopt an axolotl’ campaign launches in Mexico to save iconic species
Ecologists from Mexico’s National Autonomous university relaunch a fundraising campaign to bolster conservation efforts for axolotls, an iconic, endangered fish-like type of salamander.
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Sea turtle nests break records on US beaches, but global warming threatens their survival
Just as they have for millions of years, sea turtles by the thousands make their labored crawl from the ocean to U.S. beaches to lay their eggs. This year, record nesting was found in Florida and elsewhere despite growing concern about threats from climate change.
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How one Oregon farmer turned his barley field into a bird sanctuary
In 2021, an Oregon farmer decided to convert his 400-acre farm back to the wetland habitat. Now, just two year later, the new wetland supports migrating waterbirds and endangered fish.
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Mosquito ‘birth control’ could save Hawaii’s iconic honeycreepers
Honeycreepers are a diverse group of birds found only in the forests of the Hawaii Islands, where they thrived for millions of years. But now, some species may disappear within the decade thanks to a growing threat: avian malaria.
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An Antidote To the Despair Epidemic: A conversation with Doug Tallamy and Sean B. Carroll
Wild Hope and Homegrown National Park® announce collaboration.
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This California tribe is bringing back salmon and restoring biodiversity along the McCloud River
After decades of fighting to regain ownership of their ancestral lands, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe marked this year’s Indigenous People’s Day with the purchase of 1,080 acres of land along the McCloud River in northern California.
