Rhiannon Kirton is a wildlife specialist and one of the organizers behind the viral online movement, Black Birders Week. Although the week has ended, the work has just begun for this grassroots group. Black AF in STEM is now challenging outdoor brands to show the ...
Tolga Aktas is a UK-based conservation biologist who participated in Black Birders Week. “Growing up, there weren’t many outlets showing diversity, so I was only able to be inspired by white conservationists and naturalists,” Aktas said. “The Black Birders Week movement allowed me to see ...
This piece comes to us from Charles Emogor, who worked with the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Nigeria as part of the Conservation Leadership Program before moving on to get his PhD, for which he is continuing his pangolin research in Nigeria. Even before the COVID-19 ...
This piece comes to us from Dr. Emily Darling, a conservation scientist with WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) who leads WCS’s global coral reef monitoring program. In late February, I was with a team of scientists from WCS (Wildlife Conservation Society) underwater on one of the Caribbean’s ...
Lynx: mammals of the family Felidae. They are considered a medium-sized cat. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Carnivora Family: | Felidae Genus: | Lynx There are four living species of lynx across the globe: the Canada lynx (Lynx canadensis), ...
Elephants: mammals of the family Elephantidae. They are the largest existing land animals. Kingdom: | Animalia Phylum: | Chordata Class: | Mammalia Order: | Proboscidea Family: | Elephantidae There are currently three species of elephants across the globe: the African bush elephant (Loxodonta africana), ...
This piece, which explores the assault on nature that has contributed to the spillover of the coronavirus responsible for COVID-19, was prepared by Wildlife Conservation Society's Senior Conservation Ecologist and Fellow with the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers, New York ...
Earlier this week, two extremely rare and mesmerizingly white giraffes, a mother and calf, were killed by poachers in Kenya, leaving only one white giraffe, a male (or bull). The white giraffes showed signs of a disorder known as leucism, which is a partial loss ...
Those who explore the waters of the Amazon basin occasionally hear a forceful snort, the sound that a pink river dolphin or boto makes when it surfaces to exhale. Visitors sometimes catch a glimpse of a pinkish, rounded forehead or small dorsal fin just above ...
