Conservation

Volunteers help decipher how motorways affect animals. 

A giant's legacy.

Tig and Elise Tillinghast show how sweet it is making a living while preserving bird habitat.

Conservationists have waged a 41-year battle to free “the sweetest water-lane in the world” by tearing down an unnecessary dam. Their efforts have seemed hopeless—until now.

There are two Oklawaha Rivers today. There is the twisting, unspoiled black-water stream of the Florida Wilderness. And there is the dammed, straightened, Army Engineered desolation of the unfinished Cross-Florida Barge Canal.

Helping eels slide past dams with some PVC pipe and netting.

Congressional legislation and a pending civil suit threaten the future of a new rule that protects wildlife and allows vehicles on Cape Hatteras National Seashore. 

A chain of more than 100 Marine Protected Areas offer a safe haven for creatures from albatrosses to whales along California's 1,100-mile coastline.

Restoring the Florida Keys, one piece at a time. 

Planting native blossoms gives Oahu's unique landscape a fighting chance.

Thanks to Rachel Carson’s crusade, DDT was banned and birds are rebounding. If only it were that simple. 

Gail W. Miller's 174-year-old farm is worth the upkeep to protect grassland birds such as bobolinks.  

On the 50th anniversary of Silent Spring’s publication, a best-selling historian shows the extent to which John Kennedy and his administration defended Rachel Carson’s controversial work against the chemical industry’s onslaught.

This year’s honorees draw on faith, corporate experience, and political know-how to promote environmental stewardship. 

Creating conditions species need to thrive in Hi Lonesome.

One forester shows what it means to protect living, breathing trees in the urban environment.

The disastrous Gulf oil spill should have taught a broader lesson about the fragility of our oceans. How well have we learned it?

The follow-up to Carson’s work, Since Silent Spring, cemented its reputation as a classic. 

The sweet stuff is a treat for travelers, in everything from cocktails to entrees.

Planting the past, and preserving biodiversity in the process, is easier than ever.

Yellowstone’s rebounding grizzly bear population is an undeniable success. But figuring out how to manage the threatened omnivores—in light of potential food shortages and deadly human-grizzly interactions—isn’t so easy. 

New rules are forcing power plants to clean up their acts.

Striking a balance between the needs of threatened birds and humans isn't always easy.

A serious effort to save some of the earth’s oldest, largest, and most successful predators is finally under way. But it needs to move faster.

Public and private groups work together to build better wildlife habitat in the Mississippi River valley.

An intensive DNA study will help wildlife managers design better recovery strategies for the threatened bears.  

Prairie dogs have been eliminated from more than 95 percent of their grassland habitat. And now they, and the vast and complicated ecosystems they sustain, face a new and deadly threat. 

Florida's Everglades have a huge advocate in Nathaniel Reed, who's been fighting for decades to preserve the vast ecosystem. In this video, he reflects on the condition of the Everglades' lifeblood—Lake Okeechobee.

Deconstructing the Elwha Dam began this past September.

Long maligned as pests, beavers are proving indispensable.