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Could camera trap videos galvanize the world to protect Yasuni from oil drilling?

‘Lost’ bird rediscovered in New Caledonia along with 16 potentially new species (photos)

Small invertebrates could be key to uncovering the mysteries of killer amphibian fungus

WWF risking Sumatran rhinos by releasing camera trap images, says scientist

Myanmar faces new conservation challenges as it opens up to the world

Unlikely success: how Zimbabwe has become a global leader in rhino conservation

New prioritization for Brazil’s threatened mammals pushes little known primates and rodents to the top

Forgotten species: the nearly extinct primate that can be shot on sight

Not far from Rome, Italy’s distinct bear faces down extinction

Ground zero for endangered species: new program to assist animals on the brink across Southeast Asia

Eighty sea turtles wash up dead on the coast of Guatemala

Safeguarding nine priority areas could protect all of Tanzania’s primates

Zoo races to save extreme butterfly from extinction

Little NGO takes on goliath task: conserving the vanishing ecosystems of Paraguay

Endangered chimps and forest elephants found in rainforest to be logged for palm oil

Scientists discover new flying mammal in bushmeat market

Featured video: Sumatra’s last elephants versus palm oil

The iguana man: saving the reptilian kings of the Bahamas

Booming cashmere trade eating up habitat for snow leopards, saiga, and wild yak

Dominican Republic sends bulldozers to destroy wildlife reserve, home to endangered species

Rare animal species and Buddhist monks in danger of losing their home to cement quarry

Yangtze finless porpoise drops to Critically Endangered

Making movies to save Uganda’s great apes

Vocal-sac breeding frog possibly extinct

Over 700 species added to the threatened categories on the IUCN Red List (photos)

Saving the Raja of India’s grasslands: new efforts to conserve the Critically Endangered Great Indian Bustard

Tigers, orangutans, rhinos: Sumatra’s big mammals on the edge of extinction

Bird extravaganza: scientists discover 15 new species of birds in the Amazon

Syrian bald ibis may be down to a single bird

Scientist: Australia taking ‘calculated actions’ to push Leadbeater’s possum to extinction

Saving the Tenkile: an expedition to protect one of the most endangered animals you’ve never heard of

The comeback kids: the role of zoos in saving species from oblivion (photos)

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