The Ask

Started by one of Yukon’s most colorful characters in the 1960s, the Yukon Wildlife Preserve still helps rehabilitate injured animals and sends a message about living with wildlife.

Former politician turned city official Jessyn Farrell, who still calls herself a “Save the Whales environmentalist,” tackles sustainability from all angles.

For Wan Faridah Akmal Jusoh, the night skies hold a sense of natural wonder and offer opportunities for citizen science.

Trish O’Kane’s book Birding to Change the World is a guide to linking people, nature and activism. 

Conservationists in Namibia have found the fate of people and cheetahs are closely intertwined — and so are solutions to help both.

Wildlife ecologist Bruce McLellan lived in the remote Flathead Valley in Canada and followed some bears for upwards of 30 years. 

The popular app can help you identify species, but its global community of naturalists is contributing even more to biodiversity protection.

Conservationists are working to preserve eastern Montana’s intact prairie and return its assemblage of native wildlife.

Scientists “tromp out there into far-away places” to learn how to help recover three elusive, high-mountain predators: wolverines, Canada lynx and Cascade red foxes. 

A new book from water expert Peter Gleick urges a rethinking of how we use, manage and value one of our most important resources.