Research into grassland ecology started at the Northeast Normal University (NENU) in the 1950s when Tingcheng Zhu, founder of NENU’s Institute of Grassland Science (IGS), surveyed the vegetation ...

Agriculture had taken over most of the fertile river valleys that the species depends on, and the survivors were under relentless assault by trophy hunters and poachers. Kaziranga was set aside in ...

In Iowa they call it “black gold” – a fertile blanket covering the landlocked Midwestern state. Thousands of years of prairie grass growth, death and decomposition have left a thick layer of ...

The Okavango Delta is a grassland flooded by the life-giving waters of the Okavango River, and this fertile region draws and sustains huge numbers of animals. In fact, the delta sees some of the ...