Conservation News for Kids

Stephanie Schuttler awoke to something clattering around outside her bedroom, knocking over garbage cans and ripping leaves off of trees. If she were back home in North America, then she…

An interview with author and illustrator, Lynne Cherry “The Great Kapok Tree” was written by Lynne Cherry in response to the murder of Brazilian environmental activist Chico Mendes, who was…

Sometimes the lions win…and sometimes they don’t. A male giraffe contentedly strips leaves from an acacia tree on the Serengeti plains.  He wraps his long, flexible tongue around the sharp…

Some people claim that Bigfoot roams through the forests of Northern California. For hundreds of years people have told stories of seeing large reptilian creatures swimming in Lake Champlain in…

Did you know that that there are different kinds of giraffes?  Scientists have identified nine different kinds of giraffes.  All of the types of giraffes live in Africa.  All of…

By David Brown and Stuart Short Today’s article is coming to you from Ankarafantsika National Park in Madagascar. Our special guest today is the creature known by the common name…

By Stuart Short & David Brown You tromp through a low elevation rain forest in Madagascar and hear strange squeaks and chirps emerging from out of the plants below you.…

The Kraft family (from left to right) Lauri, Jason, Jamie, Larry. Photo courtesy of the Kraft family. The Kraft family—Larry, Lauri, Jamie (age 9), and Jason (age 7)—are on the…

For conservation initiatives around the world, community involvement is often crucial. An additional challenge is how to conserve species once their habitats have become fragmented. A primatologist in Mexico is…

A group of young children have become a catalyst in the effort to save Kibale National Park from deforestation. Children from Iruhuura Primary School in Uganda have collaborated with the…

Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis), a 200 pound, two-horned bovine, has roamed around the Annamite Mountains of Laos and Vietnam unbeknownst to humans until its discovery in 1992 by the World Wildlife…

The bonobo (Pan pansicus) is known for being a key stone species, a species that plays an important role in maintaining ecosystem functions. Recent studies now reveal the bonobo as…

By David Brown & Stuart Short “Does anybody know what this animal is?” asks Stuart Short as he carefully holds a small mammal up for his audience to see. Stuart is…

By David Brown & Stuart Short KERSPLASH!  Deep in the rainforests of Central Africa, a biologist sees an animal that looks like an otter dart into a stream.  It has…

By David Brown & Stuart Short If you owned a tropical island with forests and rivers and deserts and you wanted to populate it with animals that would use all…

There are many ways in which people practice conservation. The most well-known are working to save species in the field or setting up protected areas. But just as important—arguably more…

The duck-billed platypus is a really odd creature. It’s a mammal, but it lays eggs like a reptile and is also one of the world’s only venomous mammals.  It gets…

If you want to save a top predator like the Malayan Tiger, you have to make sure it has enough prey to feed on. Scientists at MYCAT (The Malaysian Conservation…

After the recent discovery of Olinguito-the world’s newest mammal, scientists released first pictures of a baby Olinguito from La Mesenia Conservation Project in Colombia. Olinguitos are found only in Ecuador…

Last March, several scientists from James Cook University and a National Geographic/Harvard University photographer surveyed the remote peninsula of Cape Melville in north eastern Australia. It was the first time…