These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million
After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, ...
What can save the desert's most tenacious birds? Tiny underground apartments.
In the vast urban sprawl of Arizona, the habitat of the tiny western burrowing owl is being destroyed—prompting ...
Indian scientists are saving a rare bird — by getting them to mate with dummies
The great Indian bustard is critically endangered, but the Indian government has found a clever way of breeding the species ...
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Wild Obsession
This story appears in the April 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine ... in their beds and basements and bathrooms, wild animals kept as pets live side by side with their human owners.
Climate change is amazing—if you’re a rat
In the first study of its kind, scientists found a correlation between climate change and a rise in urban rat populations.
What’s behind the strange rash of ’dinosaur’ sightings in the Congo?
For centuries, locals have told stories of mokele-mbembe, a legendary creature said to lurk in the Congo Basin. But as ...
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His portraits capture animals that are going extinct in the wild
This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. A naked mole rat. That was photographer Joel Sartore’s first model in 2006 when he began making studio portraits of ...
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A bold plan to save Africa’s shrinking giraffe herds
Relocating animals to create new populations ... to about 110,000 in the wild. This story appears in the October 2019 issue of National Geographic magazine. Of all the large African mammals ...
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Why there’s reason to hope for Britain’s fastest declining mammal
There are few animals so beloved in literature as the ... “The banks used to be straight-sided, almost like canals,” said National Trust park ranger Roisan Black. “But by burrowing into ...