Topic - Wildlife, page 9

A Callery pear tree on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Interview

How Listening to Trees Can Help Reveal Nature’s Connections

By Diane Toomey

Visitors wait to enter Yellowstone National Park in June 2017.

How A Surge in Visitors Is Overwhelming America’s National Parks

By Jim Robbins

E360 Video Contest Winner

Island in the Fires: A Forest Sanctuary for Orangutans Hangs On

Should Genetic Engineering Be Used as a Tool for Conservation?

By Richard Conniff

Valley of the Gods, part of Bears Ears National Monument in southeastern Utah.

With Trump, A Full-Scale Assault on Protections for U.S. Public Lands

By Jim Robbins

Receding forest on a mountainside in West Kalimantan province in Borneo.

Field Notes

Vanishing Borneo: Saving One of the World’s Last Great Places

By Alex Shoumatoff

The Fear Factor: How the Peril of Predators Can Transform a Landscape

By Jim Robbins

Timber being trucked through the northern Laos province of Louang Namtha on its way to the Chinese border.

The Dark Legacy of China’s Drive for Global Resources

By William Laurance

Helping China Rethink Its Approach to Conservation

By Diane Toomey

For a Defender of Elephants, China’s Ivory Ban Comes Just in Time

By Richard Schiffman

A group of men arrested while trying to sell a tiger skin near Chandrapur, India.

Wildlife

As Asian Luxury Market Grows, A Surge in Tiger Killings in India

By Sharon Guynup

Alexander von Humboldt and French botanist Aimé Bonpland in the Amazon rainforest.

The Legacy of the Man Who Changed Our View of Nature

By Diane Toomey

Soldiers set barbed wire fences on the Slovenian-Croatian border in November 2015.

Border Wars

Aimed at Refugees, Fences Are Threatening European Wildlife

By Jim O'Donnell

Climate Consequences

How Warming Is Threatening the Genetic Diversity of Species

By Jim Robbins

An elephant at the Amboseli game reserve, approximately 250 km south of the Kenyan capital of Nairobi.

How Forensics Are Boosting the Battle Against the Wildlife Trade

By Heather Millar

Two male great Indian bustards in Rajasthan.

Dispatch

An Indian Doctor Seeks a Cure for A Bird Nearing Extinction

By Moushumi Basu

Disappearing Species

What’s Killing Native Birds in the Mountain Forests of Kauai?

By Diane Toomey

California Condor Population Reaches New Heights in 2015

By Karin Klein

Glass eels wriggle in a glass dish of water, illuminated to show their transparency at this phase of life. These farmed eels are in a holding tank in Maine.

For the Endangered American Eel, a Long, Slippery Road to Recovery

By Ted Williams

A Grassroots Effort to Save Africa’s Most Endangered Ape

The Cross River gorilla population in equatorial Africa has been pushed to the brink of extinction. In a Yale Environment 360 interview, a Nigerian scientist working to save the gorillas describes how local villagers are vital to protecting these apes.

As Andes Warm, Deciphering The Future for Tropical Birds

Scientists have theorized that tropical birds in mountainous regions will move uphill as the climate warms. But new research in the Peruvian Andes suggests that the birds will stay put and face a new threat — predator snakes that will climb into their territory to escape the heat.

By Daniel Grossman