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Llamas Once Roamed North America. Could They Help Restore It Again?

Llamas Once Roamed North America. Could They Help Restore It Again?

Llamas helped rebuild soil and vegetation below a retreating glacier in Peru. Their deeper history makes the experiment even more interesting.

A Hive Count Is Not a Measure of Pollinator Health

A Hive Count Is Not a Measure of Pollinator Health

Managed honeybees can be replaced, divided and moved. Wild pollinators cannot. If we want more bees, we must first restore the plants and nesting places that sustain them.

A Bat Colony Is Only as Healthy as the Country Around It

A Bat Colony Is Only as Healthy as the Country Around It

A cave can shelter hundreds of thousands of bats. It cannot feed them. Protecting a bat flight means protecting the insects, water and open country beyond the roost.

The Biodiversity Crisis

The Biodiversity Crisis

It’s not just trees and animals that suffer when flames vanish. Eighty percent of a forest’s diversity is in its understory.

Bison Haven't Moved Like This In A Century And The Effects On The Land Are Staggering Scientists

Yellowstone Bison

Bison Haven't Moved Like This In A Century And The Effects On The Land Are Staggering Scientists

America's largest native herbivore continues to demonstrate its vital role as an ecosystem engineer.

The Deadliest Animal in America Isn’t a Bear, a Shark, or a Snake. It’s Not Even Close

The Deadliest Animal in America Isn’t a Bear, a Shark, or a Snake. It’s Not Even Close

A surgeon analyzed nine years of CDC fatality data to rank every animal most likely to kill you in the U.S. The top two on the list will stop you cold — and permanently change how you think about outdoor risk.

Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations

Animal Trails: Rediscovering Grand Teton Migrations

Recent GPS tracking of migratory mule deer and other big game species revealed that animal trails radiate out in all directions from Jackson Hole to the far reaches of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human

We May Be Surrounded by Trillions of Conscious Beings, Research Suggests—And They Aren’t Human

We might need to reconsider our position in the consciousness hierarchy.

Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist

Fig Trees May Benefit Climate By Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Stone - New Scientist

Some carbon dioxide absorbed by fig trees gets turned into calcium carbonate within the wood and the surrounding soil, ensuring that the carbon is kept out of the air for longer

Researchers Dump Tons of Coffee Waste Onto Degraded Land, 2 Years Later It’s Transformed

Researchers have witnessed incredible results after dumping 30 truckloads of coffee pulp, a waste product of the coffee industry, onto an area of degraded former farmland in Costa Rica.

Idaho Adds Requirements For Animal Entry In Response To U.S. New World Screwworm Cases

New World Screwworm

Idaho Adds Requirements For Animal Entry In Response To U.S. New World Screwworm Cases

The Idaho State Department of Agriculture instated additional state entry requirements for animals on Wednesday following detections of New World screwworm — a flesh eating parasite — in Texas and New Mexico

America Is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster — While Systematically Destroying the Only Animal That Could Prevent It

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

America Is Repeating Brazil’s Amazon Disaster — While Systematically Destroying the Only Animal That Could Prevent It

This post argues that decades of livestock-focused land management and wildfire suppression have degraded public lands, while wild horses may offer a natural, low-cost solution for reducing fuels, restoring ecosystems, and improving resilience.

Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Why Wild Horse Fire Brigade Stands Alone Among Wild Horse Nonprofits

Wild Horse Fire Brigade is advancing a different vision for conservation—one centered on preserving free-roaming, naturally breeding wild horse herds.

Reintroduction of Beavers to Wetlands Leading to More Bats

Reintroduction of Beavers to Wetlands Leading to More Bats

The reintroduction of beavers to wetlands in England and Wales is leading to an increase in bat activity, a new study suggests.

wild horse eating grass on a roadside

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

C.S. Lewis's 1944 Lecture "The Inner Ring."

The Wild Horse Fire Brigade offers a natural solution: horses graze the grass and brush on vacant wild-lands, and manage fuels that cattle avoid and that fuel extreme fires, creating safer landscapes without costly mechanical treatments or prescribed burns that often release even more toxins.

Restoring Biodiversity - 5/26/2026

Restoring Biodiversity - 5/26/2026

Texas Parks and Wildlife Commission proposes rule that would require harvest reporting. Using goats instead of herbicides to control weeds. And more...

Wild Horse Grift song - thumbnail of a Youtube video

Wild Horse Fire Brigade

Wild Horse Grift

The song "Wild Horse Grift" is a powerful, truth-telling country-western style track that exposes the exploitation of America's wild horses by certain large "advocacy" nonprofits.

China Released Thousands of Horses Into A Desert With ZERO GRASS — 5 Years Later The Map Changed

China Released Thousands of Horses Into A Desert With ZERO GRASS — 5 Years Later The Map Changed

When you give nature / biodiversity a chance,. It's a win win result.