What Snails Can Teach Us About the Extinction Crisis
A new book about efforts to save endangered snails in Hawai‘i provides valuable insight into threats to global biodiversity.
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On Endangered Species Day — and Every Day — Here’s How to Save the Animals
If you’re already toting a canvas bag or your home is running on renewables, you need to do more. And if you’re brand new to the world of conservation, welcome to the fight.
Ospreys’ Recovery from Pollution and Shooting is a Global Conservation Success Story
Traveling to Europe in the summer of 2016 to research my book, I discovered flourishing new osprey populations. Artificial nest sites – supports built mostly in trees to stabilize existing nests and encourage new ones – were plentiful and packed with young ospreys ready to fledge.
In California Wine Country, Restoring Salmon Habitat After More Than a Century of Dams
In freshwater waterways along the coast from Marin to Mendocino counties, agencies are restoring salmonid streams to create habitat diversity, areas that provide deep pooling, predator protection, and side channels of slower-moving water.
How Smarter Irrigation Might Save Rare Mussels and Ease a Water War
It’s clear that restoring healthy flows to the Flint River and its tributaries will not be easy. The people of Georgia and the lower Flint must decide if they want to take action to save the diversity of life in their streams.
Slow Down and Save the Whales
The St. Lawrence River Estuary is both a home for endangered whale populations and a busy maritime route.