A small but dedicated group of filmmakers, researchers, eco tour operators and dive boat owners banded together to create The Guadalupe Island Conservation Fund- a much needed non profit organization. It's goal is to provide much needed funding to ongoing white shark research teams at the Bio-Sphere. Visit www.guadalupefund.org

Monarch butterflies in eastern North America migrate south to spend the winter on roosting grounds in Mexico. Volunteers place numbered tags on monarchs to help researchers learn more about their migration. Here's a video of me tagging a monarch where I live in central North Carolina (in October). If it survives its journey to Mexico, it will have traveled almost 1,600 miles. This butterfly has never been there before, yet--mysteriously--it knows the way!