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It’s a bouncing, baby boy for Sumatran orangutan mom Indah at the San Diego Zoo. The 35-year-old great ape gave birth in early January to her third infant.1
In the Philippines, the Rufous-headed Hornbill has been driven to the brink of extinction by hunting and deforestation.
The Kenya Wildlife Service and Ruko Community Conservancy have moved one Rothschild’s giraffe from Longicharo Island, on the eastern shores of Lake Baringo.
Scientists have reported the first known "virgin births" in California condors — two chicks that hatched without any males involved in fertilizing the eggs.
A study mapping the eastern Australian grey nurse shark population has found it has declined rapidly over the last few decades, with only 400 breeding sharks left, too few to maintain a healthy population.
Cotton-top tamarin monkeys are critically endangered primates, with less than 2,000 in the wild.
Two wildlife biologists found a Pahiopedilum haynaldianum, also known as lady’s slipper orchid, in a “local garden in the village adjacent to the forest somewhere in the Mount Busa Key Biodiversity Area.”
The Bellinger River snapping turtle is one of the rarest turtles on the planet after a virus wiped out more than 90% of the adult population in 2015, but a captive breeding program is bringing hope that a healthy population can be restored in the wild.
The white-bellied heron is mainly dark greyish with contrasting white throat, belly and vent, white-streaked scapulars, fore neck and upper breast.
With wavy horns and a sturdy build, the Istrian goat stands proudly on Croatia's national flag. But in the pastures where the white-furred animal hails from, the breed is almost nowhere to be seen.
Depuis novembre, l’institution genevoise héberge trois spécimens. Taille, durée de vie et régime alimentaire: présentation d’une espèce qu’il faut protéger.
The Czech Republic’s honey production in 2018 was the lowest in the past four years, according to data released by the Czech Statistics Office this week. Production of honey was four percent lower than in the previous year, dropping below 9,000 tonnes for the first time since 2014.
Being too coveted a mating partner can have its downside for a species faced with extinction, as the Cuban crocodile has learned.Arduous pursuit by its amorous American counterpart has seen survival of the island species, its numbers already dwindling, further threatened by hybridization.
Over the past few weeks, we’ve received a flurry of emails from concerned people who’ve seen sick and dead frogs across eastern Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland.
An infectious fungal disease has driven mass amphibian die-offs worldwide and is responsible for the greatest loss of biodiversity attributable to a single pathogen ever recorded, a global study has found.
It’s amazing to see wild creatures in their natural homes,” says Gaja Rojec, as she sits next to a group of African penguins that don’t seem at all bothered by her presence. It is late January 2020, and the Slovenian film-maker is just one of about 800,000 people who have visited Boulders Beach ...
New research sees two-thirds of mollusc types only found living by hydrothermal vents added to IUCN’s red list of endangered species
From parrots to lizards, hundreds of animal species could be at risk of extinction because of a policy process that responds slowly to scientific knowledge, according to a new study in Science.
Native predators are increasingly exposed to habitat loss and fragmentation globally. When developing conservation and management strategies, it is important to determine whether fragmented landscapes can still support similar predator densities to intact areas, and thereby constitute important ...
The lists of the world’s endangered animals and plants are getting increasingly longer. But to stop this trend, important information is lacking.
Over the past month, reports have trickled in of lions testing Covid-positive—as many as eight Asiatic lions in Hyderabad zoo (April 29) and two at the Etawah Safari Park in Uttar Pradesh (May 6). According to officials, tests are on at other zoos and the number of cases of Covid among wildlife ...
The continent of Australia has the world’s highest extinction rate; dozens of animal species are critically endangered, and hundreds more are declining. A primary culprit is predation by historically non-native cats and foxes, and killing those animals is central to conservation efforts — but th ...
A report in the academic journal “Science” of the disappearance of three billion wild birds over 50 years in Canada and the United States ruffled the media for one day, maybe two, and went away.
On a Friday evening in mid-January, Jackson, a five-year-old chimp living at Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Sierra Leone, alarmed his keepers by ignoring his dinner.
China is home to a variety of animal and plant species, both common and rare. Let's take a look of some of the precious bird species found in the country.
Rescuers were racing Monday to save dozens of pilot whales that beached on a stretch of New Zealand coast notorious for mass strandings, wildlife officials said.
The rancher peers at an enormous bird high in the treetops. Reining in his horse, he squints upward. It’s not moving; maybe it will still be there when he gets back. An hour later, he returns with a gun.
European commission moves to halt loss of habitat for migrating turtle doves
Peter Sharpe dangled 100 feet beneath a helicopter, secured by a harness around his chest. In his hands, the research ecologist clutched a small box containing smooth oval objects sculpted from resin to resemble a bald eagle’s chalky eggs.
5 - 9 December 2005, Leipzig, Germany
Dozens of China's endangered plants have seen stable growth in their numbers over several decades thanks to improved conservation efforts, a survey on protected species said.
Egypt’s Ministry of Environment said in a statement on Tuesday that it has thwarted an attempt to smuggle 40 Sudanese African spurred tortoises by two smugglers at the Egyptian-Sudanese border.
As part of the Ministry of Environment’s plan to prevent illegal wildlife trade and save animals from extinction, a group from Alexandria Turtle Rescue team succeeded in saving an endangered Egyptian jackal wolf and returning it to its natural habitat in Wadi El Rayan, Al Ahram reports.
Conservation groups call the deaths ‘shocking and heartbreaking’ and have offered a $43,000 reward for any information
Different approaches to protecting elephants are set to dominate the debate at a key conservation conference starting in Geneva today.
Emperor penguins could be wiped out by climate change within 80 years, warns a new study. The fate of the birds – some of the most striking and charismatic creatures on Earth – is largely tied to the fate of sea ice which they use as a base for breeding.
Whale sharks are found broadly across tropical and warm temperate seas, with major subpopulations in the Atlantic Ocean and the Indo-Pacific Ocean.
A Bengal tiger cub is being cared for by humans at Nicaragua's National Zoo after its mother was unable to produce the milk necessary to feed the latest little addition to the endangered species, the zoo's director Eduardo Sacasa said Tuesday.
Officials in Kazakhstan’s western Manghystau region say 64 endangered seals and five huge sturgeon washed up dead on the shores of the Caspian Sea over the weekend.
Special status has been awarded to the habitat of a species of seal left endangered due to human activity.
Picture of monk seal with eel up its nose shared by Noaa was only latest episode to occur in the past two years, baffling researchers
A Loggerhead Turtle was found caught in a fishing net at Al Qana in Abu Dhabi and has been nursed back to health.The turtle was saved by the Environmental Agency in Abu Dhabi and The National Aquarium, the largest aquarium in the Middle East, and is a breed of turtle not commonly found in the UA ...
Critically endangered eels in the Thames will benefit from cutting-edge new work that sheds light on how the creatures swim up the river's estuary.
Vancouver Island marmots may just be the antidote required for the dystopian times we are living in. If you must be trapped inside during this current winter of discontent, alone at a desk, scrolling through hours of video - best it be watching one of the most endearing animals on the planet.
Yangtze finless porpoises have been spotted frequently in the Nanjing section of the Yangtze River in east China's Jiangsu Province recently. Many residents in the city as Jiangsu's provincial capital have seen the scene of the beautiful creatures playing or leaping out of water.
Endangered marine mammals and sea turtles are routinely being entangled in or are swallowing pieces of plastic that now riddle the oceans off US coastlines, a new report has found.
Researchers worry that Andean hairy armadillos, poached in Bolivia and largely ignored by conservationists, may be headed toward extinction.
Rayong Province, Thailand: In the Gulf of Thailand, fisheries researchers use a guideline to scuba dive to the ocean floor where they release baskets full of young bamboo sharks.
One of the world's rarest bats is now confined to a single cave in Western Cuba with less than 750 remaining, according to a population survey.
Brush-tailed bettongs are back. These tiny endangered marsupials have been reintroduced to mainland South Australia after disappearing more than a century ago.