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Yellowstone Habitat Loss: Twenty years after the wildfires, a new threat looms. Learn more in this Q&A with the Conservancy's Greater Yellowstone director.

: Nature News & Features

Black-Footed Ferrets Return: New births — the first in 50 years — mean this endangered animal is making a comeback in Kansas!

• Development and Biodiversity: Can They Get Along?

• Komodo National Park: Setting the Record Straight

• Green Grapes: Could Wine and Nature Be a Perfect Pair?

Are Tropical Forests Doomed?

Tropical forests in the developing world could be gone in 100 years. Find out how we're trying to change that.
Counting Rats from Space

How is satellite technology helping us count kangaroo rats in California…and why are we counting them?
Saving an American Landmark

We've protected New York's Follensby Pond, where American Transcendentalism was born! See video and photos.
Toxic Oceans

Are the seas going sour? Learn why more carbon in the atmosphere spells trouble for reefs and other marine resources.
Conservation in Orbit

Conservancy member Richard Garriott will soon be launching into orbit. What can he learn about conservation…from space?

Nature pictures (left to right, top to bottom): Photos © Ian Shive (Marketplace); © Ryan Hagerty (Black-Footed Ferrets Return); © Mark Godfrey/TNC (Are Tropical Forests Doomed?); © Charlie Veron (Toxic Oceans); © Carl Heilman II/Wild Visions Inc. (Saving an American Landmark); © Alison Cleary (Counting Rats from Space); © Will VanOverbeek (Conservation in Orbit); © Karen Wattenmaker (Nature Conservancy Magazine)

Nature Conservancy Magazine

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: Podcast: Goat Auction in North Carolina

What gets your goat? For farmer Ring, it's the rising price of fuel and feed.