wildlife This ‘Little Bat Hospital' Cares For Up to 100 Bats at a Time The Austin Bat Refuge in Texas takes care of “orphaned, injured and displaced bats” and nurses them back to health. “We’re kind of like a little bat hospital,” says Lee Mackenzie, who runs the refuge with his wife Diane Odegard. Greg Bledsoe takes his Family Geography Project to Austin to learn more about wild bats and the threats they...
kenya Meet Team Lioness, the First All-Women Wildlife Ranger Unit in Kenya In southern Kenya, a group of women called Team Lioness are working to protect wildlife on the Maasai land around Amboseli National Park — and, at the same time, expanding the boundaries of what is expected from Maasai women. (By NBCLX Contributors Jake Tupman and Jack Somerville)