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wildlife

A ground-dwelling roadrunner bird is shown staring up at the US-Mexico border wall lined with razor wire.
Arts, Culture & Media
Award-winning photograph illustrates the US-Mexico border wall threat to biodiversity
A record number of wolves are roaming the forests and fields of Oregon, 20 years after the species returned to the state.
Arts, Culture & Media
Charlotte McConaghy’s new novel imagines reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands
A large elephant among green trees and green grass
Environment
Kenya launches its first-ever national census for wildlife
National Geographic Explorer and wildlife DJ Ben Mirin.
Music
‘Nature is always singing’: Now you can make your own music from nature’s sounds
The Rumney Marsh, a haven to both birds and fish, sits in a highly industrial area north of Boston. For decades, the marsh's welfare has been in jeopardy due to its close proximity to an incinerator.
Residents worry Massachusetts waste incinerator is contaminating waterways
Wild horses.
Environment
The trouble with managing America’s wild horses
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.
Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
Blanding's turtle baby
Environment
A conservation group has teamed up with Massachusetts students to give Blanding’s turtles a new lease on life
Wildlife cops
Justice
Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers
Urban Death Project 1
Environment
Could composting someday become an alternative to burial and cremation?
Octopus tricks
Environment
This octopus preys — and mates — a little differently
Bald Eagle
Environment
From napalm to nature: How the bald eagle helped turn a weapons factory into a wildlife refuge
The total number of wild animals in the world has dropped by more than half in just 44 years, according to the World Wildlife Fund's new Living Planet Report. The report compiled data for more than 10,000 vertebrate species, along with trends in humanity'
Environment
Global wildlife populations have fallen by half — a stat that says it all
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
Environment
After 500 or so years, beavers have mysteriously returned to England
Environment
After 500 or so years, beavers have mysteriously returned to England
Corporal Patricia Mututu (left), a 30-year Kenya Wildlife Service veteran, and Ranger Mildred Oduor on patrol in Nairobi National Park. Hundreds of Kenya Wildlife Service rangers have been shot by poachers in the last three years; 13 have been killed.
Environment
Rangers in Kenya are outgunned in the new poaching arms race
The World’s Largest Wildlife Conservation Area
Environment
Kenya’s Wildlife Losing Ground to Development
Environment
Bushmeat market in Ecuador rainforest
Wildlife Crossings
Living With Big Cats
Listener Letters
The Living on Earth Almanac
Wild Animal Rehab
Exotic Pets: Purchase With Care
Animal Parts
Living With Wildlife
Dolphin Defenders Care About Old Tires and Old-Growth Forests
Wild Nights
Global Politics
Administration seeks to remove scientific review from Endangered Species Act