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Eastern Meadowlark male calling

October–November 2021

Read all the compelling stories in the new issue of National Wildlife!

Lisa Moore, Editorial Director
National Wildlife
Oct 01, 2021

On the cover: A male eastern meadowlark calls on a Texas prairie. Loss of grassland habitats such as these led to an 89 percent drop in meadowlark numbers between 1966 and 2015. Photograph by Alan Murphy (BIA/Minden Pictures)

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Dr. Mildred McClain, executive director of the Harambee House/Citizens for Environmental Justice, stands in the front yard of Harambee House’s headquarters in Savannah, Georgia.

Breathing Deep

In frontline communities across the nation, residents and activists are calling out sources of unhealthy air pollution—and demanding environmental action.

Grasslands with multiple grazing bison

Coming Full Circle

After more than 100 years, management of the National Bison Range finally returns to the Indigenous peoples who had cared for the land for centuries.

Cleared trees for cocoa harvesting in Scio Forest Preserve on the Ivory Coast in West Africa.

All trick, no treat?

The high price of harvesting cocoa for chocolate

Miami underline pedestrian path and mural.

Miami Upcycle

The Underline adds art, gardens and safe spaces to play under the city’s rails.

A humpback cow and calf are joined by two males in the Cook Islands.

Unquiet Seas

Across the world’s oceans, a rising tide of human-caused noise is disrupting the lives of marine animals, from whales to fish and invertebrates.

Purple blazing star in a Missouri prairie.

Pulse of the Heartland

Grasslands store carbon, cycle nutrients and sustain songbirds and other wildlife—yet less than half of all grasslands remain, and we plow up millions more acres each year.

An adult male northern flicker peaking out from a nesthole in a dead Ponderosa Pine trunk, Utah.

Tree Death Brings New Life

A wealth of wildlife relies on tree snags, known as “habitat trees.”

Participants in the First National People of Color Leadership Summit hold a rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., in 1991.

A Well of Inspiration

Reflecting on 30 years since the dawn of the environmental justice movement

Purple blazing star in a Missouri prairie.

Pulse of the Heartland

Brianna Randall
Conservation
October 9, 2021

Grasslands store carbon, cycle nutrients and sustain songbirds and other wildlife—yet less than half...

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A humpback cow and calf are joined by two males in the Cook Islands.

Unquiet Seas

Leslie Allen
Conservation
October 9, 2021

Across the world’s oceans, a rising tide of human-caused noise is disrupting the lives of marine ani...

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Miami underline pedestrian path and mural.

Miami Upcycle

Adriênne Danielle Bolden
Conservation
October 9, 2021

The Underline adds art, gardens and safe spaces to play under the city’s rails.

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Peacock mantis shrimp in Indonesia.

News of the Wild

Mark Wexler
Animals
October 9, 2021

A shrimp's potent blow, a bird's powerful memory and a bee's pungent way to fend off foes

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A lit up firefly on the tip of a leaf

News of the Wild

Mark Wexler
Animals
August 1, 2021

Fireflies at risk, cuttlefish show self-control and climate change affects allergy season

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A Cerulean warbler on a branch in Texas

News of the Wild

Mark Wexler
Animals
June 1, 2021

Pollution regulations that save birds, the world's strongest beetle and at-risk oaks

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An adult male northern flicker peaking out from a nesthole in a dead Ponderosa Pine trunk, Utah.

Tree Death Brings New Life

Doreen Cubie
Garden for Wildlife
October 9, 2021

A wealth of wildlife relies on tree snags, known as “habitat trees.”

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Bats flying to roost in artificial bat house at night.

Keeping Them Wild

Doreen Cubie
Garden for Wildlife
August 1, 2021

Attracting wildlife is safe as long as you give animals space.

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Honey Bee feeding on Variegated Marjoram (Origanum vulgare), Germany.

The Truth About Honey Bees

Laura Tangley
Garden for Wildlife
June 1, 2021

Raising nonnatives does not “save the bees”—and may harm them.

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Two deceased juvenile spotted salamanders float inside a northern pitcher plant in Ontario’s Algonquin Provincial Park.

Nature's Witness: Trapped Twins

Photograph by Samantha Stephens
PhotoZone
October 9, 2021

A photographer captures an eerie scene of a pitcher plant's prey.

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Arctic ground squirrel eating dry flower buds in Denali National Park.

Shared Moment: A song in my heart

Photograph by Matthew S. Brown
PhotoZone
October 9, 2021

Poised as if to croon a Sinatra ballad, an Arctic ground squirrel feasts on flower buds.

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The Martin Luther King Memorial in early morning light

It's My Nature

Photographs by Sandy Adams
PhotoZone
August 1, 2021

As part of National Wildlife magazine’s Nature’s Witness™ initiative, we are beginning this new seri...

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