Rainforests are amazing places full of life! Rainforests are essential for the health of humans and our planet. Why? Finds lots of rainforest facts for kids from Mongabay: https://rainforests.mongabay.com/kids/ And check out this article from Mongabay.com on the world’s great rainforests: (suitable for parents, educators,…
By Monica Bond, Wild Nature Institute What would it be like to have giraffes, elephants, zebras, cheetahs, and lions hanging out in your ‘backyard?’ Children in the Monduli District of Tanzania live near Tarangire and Lake Manyara National Parks, and both parks are full of…
Kids around the world love giraffes. Now kids in Tanzania who live around wild giraffes and kids in Canada (Ontario and British Columbia), the United States (New York, Washington DC and Washington State), and Ireland are talking with each other about giraffes and about what life…
Mongabay Kids is pleased to open the Giraffe Spot, a space dedicated to the world’s tallest land mammal. Visit the Giraffe Spot for facts, fun, and learn how to help these giants of the animal world.
Let’s be honest, spiders do freak a lot of people out. But fake news hurts spiders, and we need spiders!
What vultures eat and how they eat it may be gross to humans, but it helps make the world that we live in much cleaner and safer than it would be otherwise.
Working together, three botanists discover a new plant species in the Knuckles mountain range of central Sri Lanka.
It’s not clear exactly how many Indian wolves live in the grasslands outside Pune. But scientists and conservationists would like to find out!
Nepal is a country in central Asia located between India and China. Much of the country is in the Himalayan mountains, the tallest mountains on Earth. The Humla district is in Nepal’s Trans-Himalayan region, near Nepal’s border with China. The climate of the Humla district is different from the…
A community in Kenya has had great success regrowing their local forest. Read the story to learn more!
Maned wolves are a type of canid that lives in the savannas of South America. They are omnivores – they eat meat and plants, including fruit. When they poop, they help spread the seeds of the plants they eat, helping new plants to grow. A…
Chimpanzees are our closest living relatives. Like us, they are social animals. They have relationships with family members. They have friends and sometimes enemies. They can use tools. They learn from each other. And we continue to discover other ways they might resemble us. Recently,…