Why the Cotswolds Is an English Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty
Daydreaming of a trip to England quickly conjures the image of sheep grazing on rolling green hills, villages with quiet lanes dotted with thatched cottage...
Cathy Brown
Nature & Wildlife
Butterfly Benefits and Insect Issues
While I have never considered insects my favorite category of fauna, I have to admit that some “fun facts” about them intrigue me. For example, ants can li...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Urgent: Help Protect the Bears of Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park!
Two years ago, we asked you to speak up against a proposed mining project threatening Alaska’s Lake Clark National Park and its extraordinary wildlife. Now...
Natural Habitat Adventures
Celtic Animism: How Mythology Can Make You a More Attentive Traveler
When traveling, it’s easy to see new landscapes and animals, perhaps check them off a bucket list, snap a photo and then move on. But you’ll walk away with...
Cathy Brown
Humans May Not Be the Only Animals with Language
The Encyclopedia Britannica currently defines language as “a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed) or written symbols by means of which human bein...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Healthy Soil, Food & People: Nurturing Biodiversity and Community in the Cotswolds
In the northeast corner of England’s Cotswolds, Henry Astor’s family has lived on, farmed and managed over 1,000 acres for three generations. I wanted to t...
Rebecca Self
English Wildlife: Intriguing Animals of Great Britain & The Cotswolds
Sometimes, the most pastoral landscapes can reveal some of nature’s wildest secrets. Case in point: the refined Cotswold Hills in England. Amid tidy countr...
Michelle Peters
Travel Through Portugal’s Douro Valley: Raptors, Wine & Wild Places
Best known for its legendary Port wine and storybook scenery, Portugal’s Douro Valley is also one of Europe’s most rewarding regions for bird enthusiasts. ...
Rebecca Self
Deserts: Energy, Evolution and Eventual Rain
Deserts are far from the lifeless, slow-growing and always arid places they’re often depicted to be. For example, even in Chile’s ultradry Atacama Desert, ...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
A Conservationist’s Top 5 Wildlife Moments in Botswana
Botswana encompasses a wide range of ecosystems, from the seemingly barren Makgadikgadi Pans to the Okavango Delta’s intricate network of wetlands and wate...
WWF
Animal Sizes: On Continents, on Islands and Over Time
Some tiny birds on remote Scottish islands are undergoing a dramatic evolutionary transformation. Four isolated populations of British wrens have grown ast...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Botswana’s Okavango Delta: The Beating Heart of KAZA
Our Cessna was 5 minutes north of Maun, Botswana, when the landscape changed dramatically. Gone was the dry savanna scrub that had defined the Kalahari and...
WWF
16 Fun & Fascinating Facts About Botswana’s Wildlife & Wonders
Imagine watching a herd of elephants—all different ages and sizes—wade across the Chobe River at sunset. It’s one of the things that surprised me most duri...
Rebecca Self
Celebrating Friendship Day: Buddies in the Wild
In the United States, we celebrate the annual Friendship Day on the first Sunday in August, which this year is August 2. (The globally recognized date esta...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
The Many Animals Who Use Tools
Tool use isn’t unique to humans. Various species across the animal kingdom, including birds, insects and mammals, exhibit the behavior. For example, sea ot...
Candice Gaukel Andrews
Why Milkweed Matters: A Guide to Growing Monarch Habitat
Does it seem to you that all of a sudden, people across North America are talking about milkweed? Lately, stories about milkweed and monarch butterflies h...
Rebecca Self
Croatia’s & Slovenia’s Top National Parks for Nature Lovers
When a group of local and government organizations got together to create a pilot portion of the Via Dinarica—a network of long-distance hiking trails conn...
Laura Kiniry
A Journey With Monarchs, Milkweed and More
Written by Ariana Bowman, WWF’s Gift Planning Senior Development Officer As we navigated through the lush forest landscape on horseback and then on f...
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