Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...

The United States’s Endangered Species Act (ESA), signed into law in 1973, has helped revive the populations of nearly 300 species.. The ESA protects animals that are classified under federal ...

Scientists have declared a subspecies of giraffe endangered. The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), the global authority on the conservation status of wild animals and plants ...

After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...

A photograph of Asha from February 2023 shows her in a “capture box” at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge in central New Mexico. This was the second time the endangered Mexican wolf ...

Spectacularly colored shells make these critically endangered Cuban snails highly sought after, but some are working to save them. A collection of Cuban painted snails (Polymita picta) adds ...

“If we don’t get a handle on the accidental killing of these animals in fishing nets,” Smith says, “particularly gill nets, the species is finished,” much like the Yangtze river dolphin ...

For decades, Himalayan brown bears have killed livestock and destroyed homes in this rural village. Residents are learning new ways to coexist with their fearsome, but critically endangered neighbors.

A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in ...

China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...

The Hadejia Wetlands National Park in northwestern Nigeria is a vital ecological treasure, designated as both a globally ...