Conservation

The bats in Texas's Bracken Cave are effective insecticides. Preserving the land where they live helps other wildlife, too.

A nonprofit pairs researchers with extreme athletes.

A surge of funds for restoring Minnesota’s wetlands.

The race to free three gray whales trapped in Arctic sea ice.

The last thing that the nation’s most maligned oil company needs is another black eye. So it remains a mystery why, after being such a good neighbor for so long, it refuses to honor its pledge to maintain one of the most important waterfowl, wading bird, and shorebird habitats on the Central Flyway.

Kristen Bell mixes celebrity with activism.

A fertile estuary in northern California could lose full wilderness status to an oyster company poised to extend its commercial activity for another decade.

Gray wolves are coming back in France, much to citizens’ delight, if not shepherds. 

A makeover turns manmade Aramburu Island into rich wildlife habitat.

When most Americans think of the wildlife on Alaska’s North Slope, they think of the beleaguered, 19-million-acre Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. But if they look to the west, they will see another vast wilderness—also teeming with birds, bears, and caribou. Best of all, they can help save it.

The news for Lake Okeechobee, the Everglades’ lungs and kidneys, is mixed at best. But at last we understand what’s at stake and how to heal the lake.

There are only 245 vaquita left in the wild. To save the rare porpoises, the Mexican government has launched an innovative project that pays fishermen to hang up their nets.

Musician Tab Benoit plays to save Louisiana’s wetlands.

Audubon's Louisiana Coastal Initiative is helping to restore marshlands at the Rainey Sanctuary, one patch at a time.

Our southwest’s deserts offer promise for solar power development. They also boast incredible biodiversity. New initiatives are looking to tap into the vast energy potential without threatening the wildlife and plants that depend on this fragile landscape.

Personal conservation is great, and the better seafood guides can be helpful, says our Incite columnist, an independent voice for the environment. But fisheries policy must still be changed.

Feral horses are out of control in the American West, laying waste to vast tracts of wildlife habitat and imperiling native species. What’s worse, the public seems determined to keep it that way.

An ancient cypress swamp thrives in the heart of South Carolina’s Low Country, spared from encroaching urban sprawl by a sweet-talking forest guardian and visitors’ goodwill.

When the Gulf oil spill threatened birds and beaches, tens of thousands of citizens signed up to lend a hand. Five months later, they’re still working hard.

In Oregon’s deep backcountry, a group of rugged environmentalists fight for some of the nation’s oldest forests.

An hour from the smog and concrete of Los Angeles, a quarter-million-acre oasis, bursting with rare and unusual species, is waiting to be discovered.

Isle Royale National Park draws visitors who like nature rugged and remote. It’s also the site of the longest-running study ever of a predator and its primary prey—even as global warming shows signs of upsetting the natural balance.

When it comes to protecting natural havens for bird species, shade-grown-coffee farms are second only to virgin forest. A writer’s journey through Nicaragua illustrates just how key coffee farms can be for the well-being of a certain warbler.

With a signature and a handshake, an innovative legal tool is allaying private landowners’ fears of one of the nation’s most powerful environmental laws to create critical wildlife habitat.