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 ...

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 ...

10 Facts About Single-Use Plastic Bags The world uses 5 trillion plastic bags a year. 3 Americans use an average of 365 plastic bags per person per year. People in Denmark use an average of four ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 ...

It’s an unprecedented extinction crisis — a million species facing extinction. Learn about our Saving Life on Earth campaign.