Hosted by Westcave - Discover what goes on during the night at Westcave Preserve! Join us for a hike in the canyon, led by local biologist, Amy Sugeno. Please wear sturdy shoes and bring a flashlight. Registration required. $15/person. Weather permitting.      ...

Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability    Meet our newest Net-Zero Hero, Dodie Stillman. Dodie is a certified Master Beekeeper who is passionate about honey bees and sharing her beekeeping knowledge. Dodie currently serves as the President of the Austin Area Beekeepers Association, where she teaches...

Hosted by the Animal Facts Club and the Waterloo Greenway - Celebrate how cool and wonderful the animal kingdom is with Animal Facts Club on Austin Museum Day! Gather your family and friends for this environmental festival featuring a reptile house, birds of prey show, animal...

Fanny Cornejo loves monkeys. Ten years ago, she actually spent five months living with yellow-tailed woolly monkeys in Peru.   No people. Just a tent, weekly supply drops, and steep mountains.   Which made following the fast-moving monkeys difficult. So difficult that in the beginning, Fanny would make desperate...

Hosted by the Rainforest Partnership - Rainforest Partnership’s Peru Country Director Fanny Cornejo and the RP Peru team are here in Austin for the first time! Come hear their stories from the frontlines of conservation, from the mysterious cloud forests to the last relics of the...

Sponsored Post - from the City of Austin Office of Sustainability    Written by Lucia Athens, Chief Sustainability Officer for the City of Austin    Earth Month brings warmer weather, blooming plants, and birdsong in abundance. It’s a great time to immerse ourselves in nature, and to consider ways...

Ready to watch one of the coolest displays of nature right here in Austin, Texas? The purple martins are back in town and ready to show off.   What are purple martins?   Purple martins are migratory birds that stop in Austin each year before they continue on with their voyage to South America....

One of the Austin area's most famous residents has returned home. The golden-cheeked warbler is now back in the Texas Hill Country after a winter spent in southern Mexico and Central America.   What's so special about this little bird?  Well for starters, it's very rare. As Austin Water explains, of...