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Conservation

Monarchs love milkweed.

Monarch Butterflies Really Need Your Urban Plants

A new paper argues that cities can make a lot more space for milkweed, in particular.

Jessica Leigh Hester June 24, 2019

This rusty patched bumble bee was spotted during a bee survey near the Twin Cities.

Minnesota Wants to Pay You to Care About Bees

Won't you please spare a thought (and some lawn space) for the rusty patched bumblebee?

Jessica Leigh Hester June 14, 2019

An exceptional Indian banyan growing in Lahaina Courthouse Square in Maui.

How Hawaiʻi Recognizes Its Best and Brightest … Trees

The state has some strict standards to be named an exceptional tree, and competition is pretty stiff.

Sabrina Imbler June 7, 2019

A jaguar.

Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Mexico

Zoo Miguel Álvarez del Toro

Catch a glimpse of local, native wildlife at this zoo dedicated to conservation and education.

Cenotaphs in Orchha at sunrise.

Cenotaphs of Orchha

These medieval funerary monuments are now home to a colony of critically endangered vultures.

Inside one of the tropical greenhouses.

National Botanical Conservatory of Brest

Admire endangered plants in a verdant garden that looks straight out of a Monet painting.

One of the rescued bears in part of the enclosure.

Cercado Osero

A mountain path passes by several sprawling enclosures home to a pair of rescued brown bears.

The hidden cupid emerging from Vermeer's <em>Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window</em>.

A Secret Cupid Is Emerging From a 17th-Century Vermeer

It's been known for decades, but recent work showed that it had been painted over after the artist's death.

Evan Nicole Brown May 14, 2019

Chiapa de Corzo, Mexico

Crocodiles of Sumidero Canyon

In this breathtaking canyon, crocodiles bask on boulders and glide through the murky waters.

Wa Ale Island's main beach and turtle nesting site.

Kawthaung, Myanmar

Nesting Turtles of Wa Ale Island

How often do you find security guards patrolling tropical beaches to protect rare sea turtles from poachers?

Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm.

Ocean Rider Seahorse Farm

Get up close and personal with these majestic fish.

A mother brown bear and her cubs in the Cantabrian mountains.

Cangas del Narcea, Spain

Cantabrian Bears of Asturias

Head to the mountains to catch a glimpse of Spain's endangered subspecies of brown bear.

A golden eagle in flight.

The First Golden Eagle Tagged in Yellowstone Was Poisoned by Lead Shot

Hopefully it wasn't all in vain.

Evan Nicole Brown April 16, 2019

Lumigny-Nesles-Ormeaux, France

Parc des Félins

A unique zoological park home to over 30 species of wild cats, both big and small.

Pemuteran, Indonesia

Pemuteran Biorock

A unique project to help restore coral reefs in Bali.

The memorial.

Fort Collins, Colorado

Father Goose Memorial

This stone marker honors the man who released Canada goose goslings in Fort Collins, Colorado.

Sunset at Slieve Foy, protected home of leprechauns.

Carlingford, Ireland

Sliabh Foy Loop Trail

The home of Ireland's last leprechauns is officially protected by the European Union.

Circo lake in the park.

Rascafría, Spain

Peñalara National Park

A breathtaking and biodiverse wilderness in the mountain setting of Ernest Hemingway's "For Whom the Bell Tolls."