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Land & Conservation

Land & Conservation

The latest saga in South Carolina is part of long tradition of AWOL primates, many of whom are never found

Loggerhead Turtles climb out of their nest and race towards the ocean.

Land & Conservation

A blue crab scuttles across the ocean floor. A baby sea turtle faces a wall of predators. Photographer Ian Wilson-Navarro shows Dry Tortugas National Park as it’s never been seen before.

Two people in a cave look at a white crawfish underwater

Land & Conservation

In the lab and in underground caverns, biologists are on a mission to conserve the weird, wondrous life of the Ozarks

A pair of hands holds a brook trout

Land & Conservation

The damage is still too great to sample for brook trout, mussels, and salamanders, but biologists weigh in on their hopes, fears, and plans for recovery

A collection of dried peppers

Land & Conservation

Farmers, gardeners, and seed collectives are rallying together to rebuild in the short term—and forge a more resilient future

Land & Conservation

North Carolina just debuted a Venus flytrap plate—the newest in a long line of important funding sources for the Southern wilds

A woman walks across a plank over water toward her farm

Hurricane Helene

After Helene, farmers have been supporting one another, but food and fencing are still desperately needed in agricultural communities 

A woman taking a photo of a python wrapped around her leg

Land & Conservation

Donna Kalil has plunged into canals in the dead of night, straddled two-hundred-pound serpents, and been bitten more times than she can count—all in the name of killing a thing she loves and playing a game she can’t win

A woman hikes on a forested trail

Land & Conservation

The ultra-runner relives the highlights—and a few lowlights—of her epic trek

A brown pelican in flight

Land & Conservation

The release of two rehabilitated brown pelicans is the result of millions of years of evolution, cosmic coincidence, and the hard work of conservation-minded South Carolinians

People stand by a manatee in a puddle

hurricane helene

The aquatic mammals often end up in precarious positions after floods abate

Sporting

In the heart of Patagonia lies a land suspended in time, one teeming with some of the world’s richest—and most improbable—stretches for fly fishing

A close-up image of a quail's head.

Land & Conservation

Now approved by the FDA, a Texas scientist’s parasite-fighting feed could be a game changer for the South’s beloved game bird

A group of trees whose leaves have turned yellow

Land & Conservation

Seven striking species that put on a show in your own backyard

Dolphins approaching a platform while a drone flies over them.

Land & Conservation

Breath samples? Check. Body condition data? Check. Technology has taken off—literally

A neighborhood street with large trees

Land & Conservation

How a group effort that includes, surprisingly, the power company conspires to protect the tree canopy

A raccoon sitting on a cat scratching post.

Land & Conservation

No, we couldn’t let her stay in the contest. Yes, we fell for her anyway.

A woman stands in a greenhouse

Champions of Conservation

Consider this advocate the Johnny Appleseed of one of the South’s most imperiled trees

A man stands in a field

Champions of Conservation

A young tribal leader and environmental scientist defends his people’s disappearing bayou

A man crouches in a field

Champions of Conservation

Native plants and grasses go viral in the hands of a social-media-savvy forester