Wildlife
![Beavers Offer Lessons About Managing Water in a Changing Climate, Whether the Challenge Is Drought or Floods Beavers Offer Lessons About Managing Water in a Changing Climate, Whether the Challenge Is Drought or Floods](jpg/beaver-dame2b5.jpg)
Scientists are finding that beavers’ small-scale natural interventions are valuable. In dry areas, beaver ponds restore moisture to the soil; in wet zones, their dams and ponds can help to slow floodwaters. These ecological services are so useful that land managers are translocating beavers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom to help restore ecosystems and make them more resilient to climate change. #beavers #beaverdam #waterresources
![What’s Being Done to Help Save Endangered Bornean Elephants? What’s Being Done to Help Save Endangered Bornean Elephants?](jpg/borneo-pygmy-elephantse2b5.jpg)
The world’s smallest elephant is facing challenges from habitat loss, human conflict, and poaching. Bornean elephants have been considered endangered with a decreasing global population since 1986, though they were believed to be “very rare” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as early as 1965. #borneanelephants #endangeredspecies
![Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields to Guide Them Like a Map Sharks Use Earth’s Magnetic Fields to Guide Them Like a Map](jpg/bonnethead-sharke2b5.jpg)
Sea turtles are known for relying on magnetic signatures to find their way across thousands of miles to the very beaches where they hatched. Now, researchers have some of the first solid evidence that sharks also rely on magnetic fields for their long-distance forays across the sea. #sharks #EarthMagneticFields