Scientists were alarmed to find stuffed bats being sold online as decorations. Conservationists spread awareness, and by August 2024, eBay and Etsy banned the sale of bat products.
Learn about these playful, water-loving, carnivorous mammals.
Scientists and community members have teamed up to create good habitat for Japan’s endangered miyamashijimi butterfly.
This large freshwater wetland hosts 1,100 species of plants and animals. It is also home to people.
Amateur naturalists are helping to discover new species of mushrooms in Sri Lanka. Learn how!
Learn how conservation work is helping olive ridley turtles succeed in Bangladesh.
Three tiger facts!
August 12 is World Elephant Day. Celebrate these awesome giants of the animal world!
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.
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…
Learn about 7 new jumping spiders discovered in Sri Lanka.
What would happen if nature threw a scaly dinosaur and a koala into a blender and spit the result back out to live in the forests and grasslands of Africa and Asia? The result might look like a pangolin: A pangolin. Photo credit: Tikki Hywood…