Migration Data Helps Protect Leatherbacks Across Oceans
On a warm, humid December night, a female leatherback hauls herself from the waves. She labors up the beach, one heave at a time, to lay her eggs within the…
Meet Lizzie McLeod, TNC’s Global Oceans Director
Lizzie McLeod laughs at the memory: She’s rushing from her job at a local bank to The Nature Conservancy’s office in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. There, she’d spend her lunch hour in…
The Curito: Guardian of Orinoquia Conservation and Tradition
The rich lands and waters of Colombia’s department (state) of Vichada are valued around the world for their biodiversity, which in Colombia, includes the local cultures and communities. La Primavera,…
Why Are Amphibians the Most Endangered Class of Animals?
Off the coast of Brazil, on an island called Alcatrazes once used by the Brazilian government as a naval shooting range, lives a tree frog the size of the top…
The Trials and Rewards of Offshore Seabird Research
The boat emerges from a wall of fog into a magical scene. Pods of dolphins swim in our wake. Several humpback whales spout nearby. Flocks of Wilson’s storm petrels –…
This Skunk Does Handstands. Sure, Handstands.
The striped skunk is likely one of the most acquainted mammals of North America, immediately recognizable by sight or odor. However there are 9 different species of skunks, and arguably…
TNC Scientist Honored with Naming of New Skink Species
It’s not every day that a young female scientist is honored alongside David Attenborough and E. O. Wilson. But that’s exactly what happened to TNC scientist Suzana Bandeira, who earlier…
Bringing Beavers Back to Britain
This story is part of a series designed to introduce the perspectives of alumni from the The Nature Conservancy and National Geographic Society’s global youth externship program. Each guest author…
Meet the Mysterious Long-Nosed Chilean Shrew Opossum
Yes, you read that right. In the forests of Chile’s Valdivian Coastal Reserve, there is a small mammal known, in English, as the “long-nosed Chilean shrew opossum.” In Spanish, it’s…
the Lengthy-Nosed Chilean Shrew Opossum
Digicam traps in Chile’s Valdivian Coastal Reserve and adjoining Alerce Costero Nationwide Park just lately documented a big enhance in websites the place the long-nosed Chilean shrew opossum—a marsupial largely…