Archives: Highlights
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Love for Axolotls
Axolotls can regenerate entire limbs, eyes and even their brains—and make a great “second date love” for one scientist.
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Meet Marcos Bera Chova
A man in Mozambique helps local farmers grow native trees to provide shade to the coffee crops they depend on—and restore a rainforest for people and wildlife alike.
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Dangers to Coffee Farmers
A group of women in Mozambique risked their lives to save thousands of coffee plants they knew would bring a better life for their families—and help restore a watershed that people and wildlife depend on.
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The Elwha Klallam Tribe
For decades, the Lower Elwha Klallam tribe fought to remove unwelcome dams on their river—and finally won.
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The Salmon “Nutrient Express”
Removing dams from the Elwha River allows salmon to return upstream—and bring precious nutrients from the sea that eventually spread throughout the forest.
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Protecting the Rights of Nature
The Reserva Land Trust has rallied together young people from across 25 countries to create the world’s first youth-funded nature reserve in Ecuador.
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A Bioblitz in Ecuador
Young volunteers from the Reserva Youth Land Trust are exploring the jungles of Ecuador to survey, photograph, and identify species—and to help protect their right to exist.
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Restoring a Forest with Controlled Burns
People are setting fire to pine forests in North Carolina to help protect an endangered woodpecker, and many other creatures as well.
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An Unlikely Partnership
On an army base in North Carolina, soldiers and scientists have turned their conflict over an endangered species into collaboration—and conservation success.
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How Beaver Dams Are Built
The lodges and wetlands that beavers build aren’t just places for their families to live and sleep (and snore!) — they’re havens where many wild creatures can thrive.
