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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The vulture has to be one of the most reviled creatures on Earth.The very word “vulture” is an insult—a synonym for a greedy exploiter. In a way, vultures’ bad reputation is understandable.

For 162 million years, sturgeons have fended off everything they’ve faced. Now scientists are racing to save these living fossils. The white sturgeon is the largest freshwater fish in North ...

From pygmy hippos to pangolins, these parents help their offspring get the best start in life. A juvenile critically endangered and federally endangered Bornean orangutan (Pongo pygmaeus) named ...

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