National Park

With the lighthouse peninsula in the background, a male tule elk stands on a bluff in the Tule Elk Preserve at Point Reyes National Seashore.

Home on the Range

Once thought to be extinct, tule elk have returned to roam across California's Point Reyes National Seashore, but the park—which also supports beef and dairy cattle—is getting crowded.

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Two adult pandas monitor activities around theirenclosure at the Wolong Nature Reserve Panda in Sichuan Province. Photograph by Ami Vitale
Green Glove, Iron Fist

As China prepares to unveil its brand-new national park system, the country—and the world—holds its collective breath to see how conservation will play out under this authoritarian regime.