How effective is biodiversity conservation of European and African national parks? This seems to be strongly associated with societal and economic conditions. But even under the most favorable ...

A National Parks Story, a feature-length documentary that has played to sold-out screenings across the country, is set to make its online debut to coincide with the start of National Park Week. The ...

NPCA’s tribute to the former U.S. president and ardent national park advocate. In his 1988 memoir, “An Outdoor Journal,” former President of the United States Jimmy Carter wrote, “It is good to ...

The heroes who saved the world's last tigers Despite early conservation successes, by the 1990s the world's tiger population was under dire threat. In this beautifully photographed feature, National ...

The years between 1925 and 1975 in the United States marked a period of pioneering progress and expansion in the field of art conservation: museums established conservation departments and analytical ...

Human societies around the world are experiencing a historic loss of biological diversity and abundance. Newly released research describes how people have caused the loss of 83 percent of all wild ...

Celebrate and look back at some of the groundbreaking achievements made by Smithsonian scientists this year. Mike Bock As global leaders in wildlife conservation, scientists from the Smithsonian ...

Since the first national parks were created in 1951 — the Peak District, Lake District, Dartmoor and Snowdonia — they’ve been joined by 15 others across England, Wales and Scotland. And they’re more ...

“Across the West, people are rallying behind more conservation for the places we love—the desert landscapes, the sandstone vistas, the sagebrush steppe and the wildlife that thrives there. The impact ...

Tom Wrasse is at his hunting shack alone. Light pours into the small room from a window framed by antlers, harvested from the surrounding central Wisconsin woods. On the opposite wall is a collage of ...

This story is part of The Human Cost of Conservation, a Grist series on Indigenous rights and protected areas, and is co-published with Indian Country Today. On a 1919 trip to the United States, King ...