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Tech Billionaires Make Largest Donation Ever to Preserve 24,000 Acres of California Coastline
Thanks to a $165 million donation from two tech billionaires, over 24,000 acres of pristine California coastline will be permanently protected in the years...
Jackie Chan’s Adorable New Video Encourages Animals to Protect Themselves With Kung Fu
Jackie Chan has been in dozens of movies where he fought for humans around the world – but now he has stepped into a...
Sea Turtle Trapped Upside Down in Trench is Rescued in Time
It took at least nine people to rescue a loggerhead turtle after she flipped onto her back trying to get back to the sea.
It...
First Results of the Great Elephant Census Are In: ‘More Positive Than Expected’
The first results from aerial surveys in Africa as part of the Great Elephant Census were released last month by the Zambia Department of...
China to Phase out Domestic Ivory Market, Crack Down on Illegal Trade Online
The illegal ivory trade in China was delivered two major blows last month when the state government and the country’s largest social media platform...
New Baby Bison: First One Born in Nearly Two Centuries in Eastern US
The last time a bison was born in a wild habitat east of the Mississippi River was in the 1830s. This month, 95 miles...
Wild Bison Roam East of the Mississippi, First Time Since 1830s
A program by the Nature Conservancy seeks to restore grasslands in Illinois, which is known as the Prairie State even though 99 percent of...
Harley-Davidson Mobilizes Bikers to Plant 50 Million Trees
Dedicated to the goal of preserving the open road for future generations of riders, Harley-Davidson is mobilizing its riders worldwide to help plant 50...
River Getting Reef-to-ridge Makeover to Save Salmon
The deep-blue Ten Mile River snakes down from the mountains through redwood forests and coastal wetlands before it flows past the rolling sand dunes...
Boeing Preserves Thousands of Acres of Wetlands
Boeing received federal approval on a comprehensive wetlands mitigation plan to preserve 4,000 acres of land in South Carolina, including more than 2,000 acres...
Paying Farmers to Welcome Birds
The BirdReturns program, financed by the Nature Conservancy, pays rice farmers in the flight path of migratory shore birds to keep their fields flooded...
Restoring Lake Erie’s Largest Wetland After 75 Years
Only around 5 percent of the wetlands in western Lake Erie remain from the days before pollution and dam construction.
Now, a five-year process is...
Major Oyster Reef Rebuilding to Revitalize Texas Coast
Half Moon Reef was once a massive underwater oyster colony in the most productive fishery in Texas, rich with shellfish, blue crabs and shrimp....
Alaska Airlines Donates to Coral Reef Conservation While Greening its Business
Alaska Airlines is teaming up with The Nature Conservancy to help restore coral reefs in Hawaii. Touting the paper-reducing benefits of its mobile app,...
Hundreds of Volunteers Renew Gulf Oyster Beds for New Coastline Project
Volunteers from across the country are rebuilding oyster reefs along the Gulf of Mexico shoreline, hoping to revive oyster beds weakened by the BP...
Tennessee Purple Coneflower No Longer Endangered: An Environmental Success Story
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today proposed removing the Tennessee purple coneflower from the list of threatened and endangered species, marking the success...
Larry King’s Gulf Telethon Raises $1.8M for Oil Spill Rescue
Large and small donations flowed in Monday evening as dozens of celebrities answered phones for Larry King's telethon to help the people of the...
Brown Pelican Soars off US Endangered List
After 40 years on the brink of extinction, the brown pelican has fully recovered and is being removed from the list of threatened and...
Ultra-Violet Light Cleans Toxins in Indiana River
Indiana waste water treatment plants along the Blue River are choosing to use UV light instead of chlorine to treat their sewage, producing clean...
Indonesia Launches Southeast Asia’s Biggest Marine Park
A migration route for almost half the world's whale species which contains vast amounts of rare coral will be preserved in the Savu Sea...