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A ground-dwelling roadrunner bird is shown staring up at the US-Mexico border wall lined with razor wire.

Award-winning photograph illustrates the US-Mexico border wall threat to biodiversity

Arts, Culture & Media

Mexican photographer Alejandro Prieto’s image of a roadrunner bird, staring up at the enormous US-Mexico border wall, was just named the grand prize winner in the Bird Photographer of the Year competition. His captivating photograph highlights the threat to the delicate biodiversity and critical animal migratory patterns that the wall poses in the US-Mexico border region.

A record number of wolves are roaming the forests and fields of Oregon, 20 years after the species returned to the state.

Charlotte McConaghy’s new novel imagines reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands

Arts, Culture & Media
A large elephant among green trees and green grass

Kenya launches its first-ever national census for wildlife

Environment
National Geographic Explorer and wildlife DJ Ben Mirin.

‘Nature is always singing’: Now you can make your own music from nature’s sounds

Music
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

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The trouble with managing America’s wild horses

Environment

“We never have really figured out how to make the idea of the horse as a symbol of freedom, and the practical biology of protecting and yet limiting this horse, work,” says author David Philipps.

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.

How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda

Environment

Would you buy wolf-friendly meat? That’s one idea Carol Bogezi has to help cattle ranchers in Washington state learn to live with wolves.

Blanding's turtle baby

A conservation group has teamed up with Massachusetts students to give Blanding’s turtles a new lease on life

Environment

Blanding’s turtles are considered a threatened species in Massachusetts. The nonprofit Grassroots Wildlife Conservation is working to protect newly hatched turtles, as mortality is high in the first year, and has found willing helpers among some local elementary students.

Wildlife cops

Underfunded wildlife enforcement in the Pacific Northwest fails to keep up with poachers

Justice

Wildlife trafficking is a global problem and the US is not immune. In the Pacific Northwest, a small law enforcement and judicial team polices Washington and Oregon for wildlife infractions, but limited resources, budget woes and loose laws allow poachers to evade penalties.Wildlife trafficking is a global problem and the US is not immune. In the Pacific Northwest, a small law enforcement and judicial team polices Washington and Oregon for wildlife infractions, but limited resources, budget woes and loose laws allow poachers to evade penalties.

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Could composting someday become an alternative to burial and cremation?

Environment

Our human ancestors have been laying their dead to rest for thousands of years. The departed were usually laid in the earth or on a funeral pyre. Today, earth and fire are still the most commonly used methods. But now a new paradigm is on offer.

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