PESTICIDES REDUCTION The country has learned a lot since Rachel Carson's 1962 book Silent Spring alerted us to the hazards of poisonous chemicals. But pesticide use still poses major threats to ...

Roads and development fragment habitat and constrain wildlife movement. Without incorporating habitat connectivity in our planning by preserving or creating linkages, we endanger the lives of both ...

Dating back to before the dinosaurs, horseshoe crabs are among the Earth’s most ancient animals. They’ve survived for almost half a billion years, but now, in North America, they’re at great risk: ...

OCEAN PLASTICS POLLUTION A Global Tragedy for Our Oceans and Sea Life Plastic accumulating in our oceans and on our beaches has become a global crisis. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in ...

NATURAL HISTORY OCELOT} Leopardus pardalis FAMILY: Felidae DESCRIPTION: The ocelot is a medium-sized, spotted cat. It grows to about three feet long, not including its tail, and weighs around 30 ...

LeConte’s thrashers rarely drink surface water even when it’s available, instead meeting their water needs via their prey consumption. These wraiths of the arid saltbush flats were long considered ...