Introducing a new series about this country’s natural spaces
Conservationists everywhere have been watching with mounting concern the destruction of wild animals and their habitats in East and Central Africa. Two years ago the New York Zoological Society and the Conservation Foundation sent GEORGE TREICHELto Africa to find out the facts. A biogeographer, specializing in African studies. Mr. Treichel spent fourteen months afield in forty-five major faunal areas south of the Sahara.
A type of soil filled with microorganisms is key to desert ecosystems. Climate change (and hikers) are coming for it.
President Obama quadrupled the Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument on Friday, protecting a wide swath of ocean near Hawaii.
Facebook and Instagram's year-end lists suggest people like sharing when they're in a crowd.
A critic argues that the U.S. Forest Service, protected from congressional scrutiny by pork-barrel politics and imaginative bookkeeping, is devastating America’s national forests through needless and unprofitable timber sales. A feasible and inexpensive policy alternative is available
In a supposedly safe national park, poachers have slaughtered 80 percent of these elusive animals in just ten years.
The country’s wildlife agency, faced with a drought and financial troubles, has asked Zimbabweans with land to take its animals.
“Nothing short of calling the army is going to put it right,” an Irish politician recently said of the shrub’s takeover of a national park.