What creature carves out little pieces of tree leaves to build its nest inside hollow stems?
Tag: biodiversity
Featured Creature: Coelacanth
What 200-pound nocturnal sea creature, thought to have gone extinct millions of years ago, was resurrected in 1938?
Featured Creature: Chevrotain
What creature is the world’s smallest ungulate?
The chevrotain!
Featured Creature: Bearded Vulture
What handsome creature dyes its feathers and almost exclusively eats bones?
The bearded vulture!
Featured Creature: Cork Oak
What creature is the engine of the Portuguese economy and works hard to delight wine-lovers around the world?
The Cork Oak!
Featured Creature: Blue Whale
Which creature who helps fight climate change has newborns the size of an adult elephant and is not a fan of boats?
The Blue Whale!
Featured Creature: Banded Sea Krait
What semiaquatic creature has a paddle-like tail, swims through crevices, and can even climb trees?
The banded sea krait!
Featured Creature: Gila Monster
What creature has a venomous bite and is uniquely adapted to survive harsh desert terrain?
The Gila monster!
Featured Creature: Aardvark
What unique animal could be a cross between a rabbit, a pig, an opossum, and an anteater?
The aardvark!
Featured Creature: Northern Cardinal
What instantly recognizable songbird holds seven state titles and has the crown to prove it?
The Northern Cardinal!
Featured Creature: Northern Red Oak
What statuesque organism is a champion of beauty, hardiness, and capacity to nurture life around it?
The Northern Red Oak!
Featured Creature: Cat
What mammal makes a mysterious sound that scientists can’t figure out, can jump straight up to a height eight times their body length, and loves us when we love them?
Felis catus, the mostly tame, sometimes feral, house cat!
Featured Creature: Pigeon
What often-overlooked creature is an expert navigator, an impressive postman, and a natural mammographer?
A pigeon!
Featured Creature: Atlantic Puffin
What striking seabird is a master of adaptability in the ocean and the air?
The Atlantic Puffin!
Featured Creature: Flamingo
What long-legged creatures are known for their beauty, social habits, and fabulous flamboyance?
Flamingos!
Featured Creature: Humpback Whale
What species of tremendous size and grace undertakes the largest mammal migration on Earth?
The humpback whale!
Featured Creature: Groundhog
What cute creature is an underground architect and an amateur meteorologist?
The Groundhog!
Featured Creature: Crow
What common bird possesses an uncommon intelligence, including diversified communication, excellent memory, and a talent for mathematics?
The crow!
Featured Creature: Canada Lynx
What furry feline has stealthy skills, built-in snow gear, and a surprising screech?
The Canada lynx!
Featured Creature: Fishing Cat
What fascinating feline with unique adaptations roams the aquatic ecosystems of Southeast Asia?
The fishing cat!
Art for Nature
The first memories of my childhood that I can recall is that of me sitting on my bed with a blank sheet of paper and a box of crayons, making lines and circles and shapes of all kinds as the warm sunlight flooded in through the windows of the apartment. Painting was something I was…
Biodiversity Field Day at Gladney Farm
Bio4Climate friends Tim Jones and Chie Morizuka manage a regenerative farm called Gladney Farm in Hokkaido, Japan. As the name suggests, there’s a lot to be glad about on the newly restored land! Tim and Chie share the love by hosting groups eager to learn from the farm animals and plants. Students of all ages…
What are these tiny forests’ big benefits anyway?
What a thrilling week it has been! Since last Thursday’s New York Times article Tiny Forests with Big Benefits, my teammates and I at Bio4Climate have been buzzing with excitement at the recognition our forests and this type of restoration is getting. We are so thrilled by the enthusiasm of people’s responses, from interest in…
Our First Miyawaki Forest Turns Two
Our community grows alongside our first Miyawaki forest! In September of 2021, we planted our first Miyawaki forest – the first in the Northeastern U.S. – in Cambridge, Massachusetts. As the forest turns two, and demonstrates signs of resilient, abundant growth, the Bio4Climate team gathered with local forest enthusiasts to reflect and celebrate the ecosystem…
Featured Creature: Prairie Dog
Have you ever heard of a squirrel that barks?
Featured Creature: Pando
What is the heaviest, oldest and one of the largest creatures on the planet?
Saving Coral Reefs From Extinction
June 4, 2023 2pm EDT Coral reefs are vulnerable to rising global temperatures more than any other ecosystem. Marine and climate scientists are researching ways to protect coral reefs and the many ocean species that rely on them for food and shelter. Without coral reefs, ocean biodiversity remains at risk of decline and eventual extinction.…
Featured Creature: Black Drongo
What small but fearless songbird can astonish with its aerial acrobatics and is always ready to battle much bigger birds for dominance?
The Black Drongo!
Featured Creature: Nilgai
Which creature is the largest Asian antelope, considered sacred to some and pest to others?
The Nilgai!
Featured Creature: Luna Moths
What nocturnal creatures native to North America are known for their beauty and the fact that they don’t eat at all in their adult life?
Luna moths!
Featured Creature: Turkey Tails
Which fungi creature gets its name from a bird, helps heal internal wounds, and benefits people worldwide?
Featured Creature: Whale Shark
What creature is the largest of its kind, sports beautiful patterns, and holds a reputation for being a ‘gentle giant’?
The whale shark!
Featured Creature: Wasps
Which creature is a master of architecture, contributes to human food sources, and has a mutually beneficial relationship with numerous plant species?
Featured Creature: European Hamster
Which keystone species creates intricate burrows, is aggressive towards its own kind, and hibernates from October to May? The European Hamster! Did you know that there are multiple species of hamster in the wild? I didn’t know this until recently, when I stumbled upon a BBC Earth video of a European Hamster foraging for food…
Using the Miyawaki Method to Rapidly Rewild our Communities
Bulu mini-forest in Cameroon after 19 months; Photo: Agborkang Godfred Hannah Lewis, Compendium Editor for Biodiversity for a Liveable Climate and freelance writer The Miyawaki Method The Miyawaki Method is a way to grow natural, mature forests in a couple of decades rather than a couple of centuries. You do this by observing what happens…
Featured Creature: Lichen
Which creature is a combination of two other organisms, comes in bright colors, and helps us measure air quality?
Lichen!
Featured Creature: Giant Barrel Sponge
What creature grows tall and sturdy, cleans up its neighborhood, and defends itself from predators – all without moving a muscle?
The Giant Barrel Sponge, or Xestospongia muta!
Featured Creature: Atlas Moth
What creature has no mouth, is known for colorful patterns, and is famous for mimicking a deadly predator?
Featured Creature: Dragonfly
Which creature existed before the dinosaurs, is an aerial genius, and can detect things we can only witness through slow-motion cameras?
Featured Creature: Slime Mold
What brainless creature can learn, problem solve, and even hold down a job?
The slime mold!
Featured Creature: Pacific Salmon
What creatures navigate oceans, climb mountains, feed forests, and motivate us to destroy renewable energy infrastructure?