Are monarch butterflies endangered? By one measure, yes. The International Union for Conservation of Nature listed the monarch as Endangered in 2022. By another measure, the answer is more complicated. In the United States, the monarch still has no federal protection...
Where do monarch butterflies go in winter? Millions of them fly as far as 3,000 miles from the northern United States and southern Canada to a small cluster of mountain forests in central Mexico, arriving by early November and staying until March. It is one of the...
Bison are the animal most people expect to see in Yellowstone and the one whose actual impact on the landscape most visitors never hear about. Beyond the size and the horns, bison reshape the ground they walk on, and Yellowstone’s herd is the reason wild...
Most guides to what to pack for Costa Rica are written for the whole country, offering one long list that covers the beach, the volcano, and the cloud forest all at once. This one is built around a single, specific trip, one of the Costa Rica trips for women that Her...
Scarlet macaws are among the most recognizable birds on Earth, and one of the tropical birds Costa Rica is most closely associated with. The Osa Peninsula is one of the last strongholds where a wild, self-sustaining population has never disappeared. Here are the...
If you have searched “best time visit Costa Rica”, “best time Costa Rica wildlife”, or “when to go Costa Rica”, the honest answer is that it depends on what you want to see. Costa Rica’s wildlife season splits into two halves, and dry season and wet season shape...
