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Restoring Harmony in Haida Gwaii

A collaboration between Haida tradition and Western science may offer a way to bolster both Haida culture and the marine ecosystem intertwined with it.

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Margaret Nyambura Mamai, a Maasai woman, places cactus pads infested with cochineal insects into healthy (and partially infested) thickets of prickly pear plants on the Laikipia Plateau.
A Plague of Cactus

Across Kenya’s wildlife-rich Laikipia Plateau, a thorny enemy is advancing. But a tiny sap-sucking insect may help save the region’s animals and people.

Two swallow-tailed kite nestlings hunker down in their nest near the top of a tall pine in Florida’s Withlacoochie State Forest.
A Precarious Perch

Swallow-tailed kites have lost much of their habitat in the southeastern United States, but thanks to an unlikely ally, their numbers are beginning to climb.

Hundreds of Chinook salmon fry swim in a tank at the Bodega Marine Laboratory at the University of California, Davis.
Raised in Rice Fields

California’s Chinook salmon have been losing habitat to agriculture for decades. Now, they’re getting a much-needed boost from strategically flooded fields.

Aerial view of the Kupeke fishpond along Molokai’s southeast shoreline. Photograph by Mickey Pauole
Hawaii’s Ancient Aquaculture Revival

In an ocean state that now imports half of its seafood, a determined group of activists is restoring the age-old aquaculture practices of Native Hawaiians.

A Caribbean spiny lobster emerges onto a coral reef in late afternoon.
The Lobster Wars

In one coastal Mexican town, a sustainable fishery anchors the community. So why has Florida outlawed the same fishing methods?

western lowland gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla)
Hands Full

Successfully raising a single infant is challenging enough that gorillas rarely have twins. But both of these babies are thriving, thanks to a few extra helping hands.

This young fennec fox pup was captured in the wild and offered to photographer Bruno D’Amicis for sale in Tunisia.
Spirit of the Sahara

For the residents of the world’s most iconic desert, including tiny fennec foxes, it will take grit and perseverance to weather a challenging suite of threats. Fortunately, those are two traits the desert dwellers have in abundance.

Dalmatian pelicans (Pelecanus crispus)
Below the Bill

One of the world’s largest birds has long been persecuted for both its outsized bill and its eating habits, but an ambitious cross-border plan is helping this threatened pelican bounce back.

Migratory fish like these mountain mullet (Agonostomus monticola) are a common sight in Central American rivers.
Free-Flowing, For Now

Hundreds of new dams are currently planned for Central American rivers, posing a threat to Indigenous peoples and wildlife alike. Preserving the integrity of these corridors between the mountains and the sea will help them both.