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Experiencing the Wonder of Nature
Vermillion Cliffs site October is Kids Free Days at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Our Institute for Conservation Research staff are sharing their interactions and connections with...
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Returning to the Polar Bears
Flying to Churchill, in Manitoba, Canada, always fills me with excitement and anticipation. And as the flight into town began its descent, I felt like I was going home. I love it up here. I love the...
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Wind, Snow, and Polar Bears
Two young males sparring. Megan is reporting from Churchill, Manitoba, Canada. Read her previous post, Returning to the Polar Bears. There are beautiful, calm, sunny days up here where you start to...
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Neighborhood Creek to Zoo
Ron and his family on a nature hike. October was Kids Free Days at the San Diego Zoo and San Diego Zoo Safari Park. Our Institute for Conservation Research staff shared their interactions and...
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Island Conservation
Richard admires a Phillipine eagle. Photo credit: Philippine Eagle Foundation In September, conservation practitioners and environmental educators from across the Philippines, as well as the Pacific...
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Traveling the World for Turtles
Brian holds a Podocnemis sextuberculata. I am on another airplane, I believe somewhere over Venezuela. The plane seems full of excited Brazilians all eagerly awaiting our landing in Miami. The aisles...
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Koala Fieldwork: Helping Hands
Bill is studying wild koalas on St. Bees island off the coast of Australia. Read his previous post, Koalas Get High-tech Support. It is not always easy for me to convince people that what we are doing...
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Quolls: Critically Endangered and Remote
Bill holds a northern quoll. I spend almost all of my time working in Australia on the San Diego Zoo’s koala project (see previous post, Koala Fieldwork: Helping Hands), but I have recently been...
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Training Andean Bear Field Crew
Meg, at left, conducts a field training session. I recently spent several days in the dry forest of Lambayeque in Peru working with our collaborator Robyn Appleton and her field crew from the...
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Polar Bears: What December Brings
A young male polar bear is trapped in ice slush. I’ve just returned from my annual trip to Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, to work with Polar Bears International. This was my 10th year of doing so, and,...
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