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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 ...
Conservationists went to dramatic lengths to save the birds, including pumping boiling hot water into the ground to ward off ...
After being hunted to eradication in Washington and Oregon in the 1930s and 1940s, the gray wolf’s recovery in these states ...
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 ...
From their odd appendages to their unsavory hygiene, certain animals suffer an image problem. But their awkward attributes ...
China hopes to become a global leader in protected nature reserves, creating a network of wilderness that would be three ...
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.
“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 ...
A better understanding of how these amphibians grow new appendages may lead to better wound healing—or even new limbs—in ...
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 ...