NATURAL HISTORY OCELOT} Leopardus pardalis FAMILY: Felidae DESCRIPTION: The ocelot is a medium-sized, spotted cat. It grows to about three feet long, not including its tail, and weighs around 30 ...

The smallest gray wolf subspecies in North America, the Mexican gray wolf is also one of the rarest and most imperiled mammals on the continent. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (and its predecessor ...

THREATS: Extensive logging and habitat fragmentation, urbanization, wildfires, road construction, pollution, invasion of exotic species, global warming and disease POPULATION TREND: Dangerously low ...

SAVING THE AMERICAN PIKA The American pika — a small, herbivorous, conspicuously cute mammal related to rabbits and hares — is adapted to the cold climate in high-elevation boulder fields and alpine ...

As our open spaces have become filled and degraded from agriculture and urban expansion, the American bumblebee has started to disappear.

SECONDHAND 101 The rise of the global fashion and consumer goods industries has devastating environmental and social consequences. Excessive consumption by some contributes to resource depletion, ...

AMERICA'S GRAY WOLVES Few animals evoke the wild like wolves. Majestic, intelligent and highly social, they’re crucial in driving evolution and balancing ecosystems. Some 2 million wolves once roamed ...