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Topic: Conservation

Jane Goodall with chimpanzee Nana at the zoo in Magdeburg, Germany, June 2004. (Jens Schlueter/DDP/AFP via Getty Images)

Jane Goodall taught us about ourselves

Carlyn Zwarenstein
The Animas River flows south through Cinnamon Pass, approximately 11 miles near Canby Mountain on September 23, 2023 in Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado. (Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

For sale by the GOP: Our public land

Michael Albertus
A female white rhinoceros with a six-month old baby in the Sabi Sands Game Reserve adjacent to Kruger National Park, South Africa. (Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Dehorning rhinos — to save them

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Deep-sea octopus Moosoctopus profundorum in his own garden with stalk lilies Ptilocrinus pinnatus (Russia, Bering Sea, Piip volcano, depth 2700 meters) (Getty Images / undefined undefined)

Deep sea mining threatens the unknown

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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Golden-crowned Sparrow. (picaday / Getty Images)

"Drab" species are studied less: study

John R. Platt - The Revelator
(Maryna Terletska/Getty Images)

Saving "cute" species: It's a start!

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Flaco, a Eurasian eagle owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, continues to roost and hunt in Central Park, February 15, 2023 in New York City, New York. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Flaco the owl’s troubled freedom

David Gessner
Humpback anglerfish (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images/WikiCommons/Epipelagic)

Lost anglerfish adored by internet

Matthew Rozsa
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Wild turkeys are seen near the Berkeley Marina in Berkeley, Calif., on Wednesday, Jan. 5, 2021. (Jane Tyska/Digital First Media/East Bay Times via Getty Images)

Wild turkeys are threatened again

Elizabeth Hlavinka
Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
Amethyst Deceiver Mushrooms (Getty Images/efenzi)

Why fungi deserve better protections

Matthew Rozsa
Capybaras eat grass next to a street in a gated community in Tigre, Buenos Aires province, on August 27, 2021. (MAGALI CERVANTES/AFP via Getty Images)

Capybaras: Symbol of green resistance

Nikolas Kozloff
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An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to infant mortality

Troy Farah
Santa Cruz River in Southern Arizona (Courtesy of Michael Bogan)

How sewage helped restore a desert river

Matthew Rozsa
Sea stars on ocean floor (Getty Images/Patrick J. Endres)

We’re protecting the ocean wrong

David Shiffman - The Revelator
Svalbard Global Seed Vault, seed vault. Longyearbyen, the capital of Svalbard on the island of Spitsbergen in the Spitsbergen archipelago. Arctic, Europe, Scandinavia, Norway, Svalbard. (Martin Zwick/REDA&CO/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Scientists want a seed vault on the Moon

Rae Hodge
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A small river meanders through the Amazon rainforest. The world's largest tropical rainforest is crisscrossed by thousands of rivers. (Jens Büttner/picture alliance via Getty Images)

Mass extinction: A choice we can reverse

Matthew Rozsa
The male Iberian lynx Kalama pictured in his enclosure at Madrid zoo. (Jorge Sanz/Pacific Press/LightRocket via Getty Images)

Iberian Lynxes are no longer endangered

Matthew Rozsa
Damaged Books (Getty Images/crPrin)

Going gluten-free could fight bookworms

Rae Hodge
California City, CA - October 10: Lisa LaVelle, a naturalist, holds a desert tortoise hatchling that she found crawling in patio of her Ridgecrest home. LaVelle warns that it is against the law to take any wild tortoise from its habitat and to move any captive tortoise back out in the wild. Photographed on Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 in California City, CA. ((Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images))

Can we still save the desert tortoise?

Matthew Rozsa
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Toroweap Overlook above the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. (Photo courtesy of Brian Richter)

The Colorado River is becoming a trickle

Matthew Rozsa
The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius) (Getty Images/USO)

Hippos are majestic but threatened

Assaf Levy
Gray Wolf on Snowy Rock (Getty Images/John Conrad)

Wolves are back — but face new peril

Matthew Rozsa
Irrigation canal near Orange River in arid region of Northern Cape, South Africa (Getty Images/geoffsp)

Groundwater depletion can be reversed

Matthew Rozsa
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