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,…
Sometimes species go missing … A “missing” animal still knows where it is, of course! But scientists and conservationists may not have seen it for a long time. Sometimes a species is not seen for so long that it is thought to be extinct. Hill’s horsehoe…
When we think of cats, we don’t usually think of water. A few species of cats do love water however, and do swim. One of those species is the jaguar.
Tc’ih-Léh-Dûñ is a redwood forest in Mendocino County, California. This forest is protected and managed by the InterTribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council, a group of ten Native American tribal nations. The Sinkyone people have lived in the coastal area of Northern California along the Eel River for thousands…
Spotted salamanders are migrating in New Jersey! Read all about it.
Learn about young people taking action to restore forests and care for the environment in Colombia.
The Amur tiger, also known as the Siberian tiger, is the largest cat in the world. They live in northeastern China, the Russian Far East, and possibly also in North Korea. Amur tigers face many threats. These include poaching, habitat loss and fragmentation, prey loss,…
This is the village of Santa Helena do Inglês: This village lies on the banks of the Negro River in the Amazon rainforest in Brazil. It is one of 19 villages in the Negro River Sustainable Development Reserve, a protected rainforest area that is very remote.…
Príncipe is an island approximately 250 kilometers (155 miles) off the coast of Central Africa. Along with its neighboring island, São Tomé, it has several endemic species, or species found nowhere else on Earth. One of these endemic species is the Príncipe thrush. Until 2010, the…