Solutions

A worker of a native uruçu-amarela colony returns to the hive with pollen to help nourish the developing larvae inside. Photograph by Sidney Cardoso

The Bee Whisperers

Indigenous communities in South America are raising native bees to help protect the insects, conserve forests, and strengthen their own cultural ties to the ecosystem.

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A Model Toadlet

Recent field experiments focusing on a tiny, charismatic frog in southeastern Brazil are beginning to shed light on a disease that has decimated amphibian populations around the world.

Fiji's Nakanacagi Cave is the only known habitat where the endangered Fijian free-tailed bat roosts and breeds. Photograph courtesy of Bat Conservation International
Subterranean Stronghold

Can Fiji’s first bat reserve keep an incredibly rare species safe despite the growing threats of climate change and human activity?

The American moose is the second largest land animal in North America. This bull was photographed near Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Photograph by David Dietrich
Of Moose and Men

In an environment increasingly altered by the expanding footprint of human infrastructure, do moose have a place in Colorado's ecological future?

Straddling the Tides

To protect mangrove forests, traditional communities in coastal Brazil set their hopes on small-scale tourism.

A great egret flies near the banks of the Cape Fear River in Wilmington, North Carolina.
River Guardians

In the face of growing environmental threats and porous regulations, grassroots groups have taken it upon themselves to protect waterways in the southeastern U.S.—and elsewhere around the world.

Two eastern lowland gorillas (also known as Grauer’s gorillas) rest near each other in Kahuzi-Biega National Park. Known as the world’s largest living primates, these gorillas are critically endangered following decades of political upheaval in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photograph by Marcus Westberg
Gorillas in Their Midst

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, community-led conservation has emerged from the chaos of war, but the ghosts of colonialism still haunt locals trying to live with great apes.

Staghorn corals and juvenile bluehead wrasse in the late afternoon sun at Coral Gardens reef off the coast of Belize—Photograph by Karl Wirth
Reef Refugia

In Belize, scientists are studying a thriving coral reef and helping to spread its resilience into other reefs around the Caribbean.

City of Glass

Meet the dedicated cadre of experts and volunteers working to protect birds from glass in the window-strike capital of the United States.

Living With Giants

How Indonesia’s “village of elephant hunters” became a model for other rural communities trying to coexist with one of the planet’s largest land mammals.