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Issues: Wildlife

The Bees' Needs
Fact Sheet: Honey bees are mysteriously vanishing across the country, putting $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and vegetables at risk.
Great Bear Rainforest
Photo Album: On Canada's Pacific coast lies one of the Earth's largest remaining tracts of temperate rainforest: the 8-million-acre Great Bear Rainforest. Once threatened with intense and destructive logging, the Great Bear's future now seems brighter after the announcement of a historic conservation agreement and the resulting protection of 5 million acres of the rainforest. These photos illustrate the amazing diversity of the Great Bear's ecosystem and the wildlife that call it home -- and testify to environmental activists' power to shape history.
Grizzly Bears in Peril
News: The plan to remove protections for Yellowstone grizzlies threatens their long-term survival.
Why Grizzly Bears Matter
Interview: Louisa Willcox, director of NRDC's wild bears project, has worked to protect grizzly bears since 1985. One of the foremost experts on grizzly conservation in the country, she lives in Livingston, Montana.
The Birds of Hawaii's Hakalau Forest
Photo Album: Hawaii's Hakalau Forest National Wildlife Refuge protects endangered birds and their rainforest habitat. This photo gallery contains images of nine of Hakalau's unique forest birds.