Nature Conservancy Magazine: Spring 2009
Flora & Fauna: JaguarFlora & Fauna: Jaguar
With its habitat disappearing, the elusive jaguar is getting harder to find. Find one here.

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Field StudiesField Studies 
New York students brave snakes, bugs and silence at a Conservancy preserve.
Join their dragonfly hunt
In the DarkIn the Dark 
A mysterious syndrome has struck bats. Biologists think one cave may hold the answers.
Learn why

Multimedia

Natural Selection: Oceans & Seas
Natural Selection: Member Photos 
 

Jaguar slideshow
Jaguar Photos
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Bat Audio Slideshow
Bats Audio Slideshow
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Bison Video
Bison Roundup
 

 

Departments

Human Nature: An Empty Nest
Human Nature
Empty Nest: A Comedian Moves In When a Comical Bird Moves Out.

Reviews
The Great Warming, Nature's Beloved Son, Wildlands Philanthropy.

From the President
A World of Change

Natural Selection Member Photos

Nature Conservancy Magazine invites you to share your best photos. Each quarter, the editors’ top picks will be published in the magazine. 

Additional Features

Blue's Ocean
Blue's Ocean
Bill Blue is taking a chance on a new way of fishing. Can it help protect our oceans?

Interview
Frank Lowenstein, the Conservancy’s guru on forest bugs and blights, talks about the recent spread of two bad beetles, the loss of the American Chestnut and why he pickles strange insects.

Now & Then
History Repeats Itself in the Adirondacks.

NewsFront

Weed Warriors
An Epic Effort Frees a Colorado River From a Leafy Pest.

Rat Race
Liberating Rat Island for the Birds.

Conservation Gains
Protected Areas Reach New Milestone.

Logging for the Trees
In Bolivia, Fighting Deforestation With Forestry.

Space Rats
Satellites Track California’s
Endangered Kangaroo Rats.

Underwater Deer
Researchers Observe a New Behavior in Borneo.

Green Pay
Is Conservation a
Cure for Economic
Hard Times?

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Images (top to bottom, left to right): Photos © Bridget Besaw (A New Way of Fishing); © Staffan Widstrand / naturepl.com (Jaguar); © Landon Nordeman (Bat); © Amy Deputy (Cover); © Pete Oxford/Minden Pictures (Jaguar); © Amy Deputy (Field Studies); © Landon Nordeman (Bat); © Paul R. Piduch (Natural Selection); © Staffan Widstrand / naturepl.com (Jaguar); © Stephen Dalton/Minden Pictures (Monarch Butterflies); © Stan Fellows (Human Nature); © Bridget Besaw (A New Way of Fishing)