Ecosystem services are things nature provides for humans that help us survive and stay healthy. For example, plants produce oxygen that helps us breathe. Plants also provide food and shelter for us. Bats provide ecosystem services to people too. Bats help pollinate plants that provide us with…
Learn about the discovery of a tiny new frog species in northern Costa Rica.
Meet a hermit crab and a newly described anemone that it carries on its shell.
Scientists have reported that some wild stingrays produce short, loud clicking sounds. Joni Pini-Fitzsimmons is a marine scientist and stingray expert at Macquarie University in Australia. In 2018, Joni received an unusual stingray video from a colleague. It showed a mangrove whipray gliding over a…
Project Taramea trains young Māori divers in the Cook Islands to remove crown-of-thorns starfish that eat corals.
Chimpanzees are the closest living relatives of humans. Like us, chimpanzees use technology. Primatologist Catherine Hobaiter and her team watched a young female chimpanzee they call Onyofi digging in the mud of her rainforest habitat in western Uganda. Hobaiter, who works at the University of St. Andrews…
Old McDonald had a farm – EI-EI-O, and on that farm he had some tropical marine fish. EI-EI-wait, what?
A group of scientists from England and Hungary wanted to find proof that tropical birds really are more colorful than their temperate cousins. To do this, they used special imaging technology…
Earth is a fantastic place. There are so many species of plants, animals, and fungi that we know about. And there are so many more left to discover! Meet some newly discovered and described species: a tapir frog that looks like a real chocolate frog…
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…