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Long-tailed macaques living in the mountains of Cambodia's Battambang province

Cambodian official acquitted in trial that exposed monkey-laundering scheme

Gerald Flynn 29 Mar 2024

After 50 years of the U.S. Endangered Species Act, we need new biodiversity protection laws (commentary)

Sean O'Brien 16 Feb 2024
A wolverine. Image courtesy of MBarrueto via the Creative Commons, CC 2.0.

Let’s give the wary wolverine some space (commentary)

Gabe Schepens 12 Jan 2024
One of the six newly described chameleons from Tanzania

Photos: Top species discoveries from 2023

Liz Kimbrough 27 Dec 2023
A resting gray wolf (Canis lupus). Photo by Gary Kramer, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Montana cannot be trusted with grizzly bear & wolf management (commentary)

Lara Birkes 1 May 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
Long-tailed macaques roam free across the Angkor Wat temple complex

Alleged macaque-smuggling ring exposed as U.S. indicts Cambodian officials

Gerald Flynn 18 Nov 2022
A Socorro isopod. Image by Bronwyn H. Bleakley via Creative Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Socorro isopod: Endangered but important (commentary)

Nick D’Onofrio 19 Aug 2022

Monarch butterflies are officially endangered

Liz Kimbrough 21 Jul 2022

‘Beenome’ project aims to boost bee conservation with genetic mapping

Liz Kimbrough 30 Jun 2022
Crotch’s bumble bee (Bombus crotchii) on milkweed flowers

California court ruling opens door for protection of insects as endangered species

Liz Kimbrough 2 Jun 2022

Western monarchs make a spectacular comeback in California

Liz Kimbrough 27 Jan 2022

2021’s top ocean news stories (commentary)

Callie Steffen, Douglas McCauley, Emma Critchley, Molly Morse 28 Dec 2021

Top 15 species discoveries from 2021 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 21 Dec 2021
Western spotted skunk (Spilogale gracilis). Image by Robby Heischman courtesy of the Field Museum.

Pepé Le New: Meet the acrobatic spotted skunks of North America

Liz Kimbrough 15 Sep 2021

Fewer than 100 of these giant whales make up a newly described species

Teresa L. Carey 4 Feb 2021

No endangered listing for monarch butterflies as western count hits alarming low

Liz Kimbrough 16 Dec 2020

Does trophy hunting hurt giraffe populations? A planned lawsuit says it does

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 16 Oct 2020

Less than a thousand remain: New list of animals on the brink of extinction

Liz Kimbrough 9 Jun 2020

Historic agreement gives monarch butterflies the ‘right-of-way’

Liz Kimbrough 20 May 2020

Western monarch butterfly numbers critically low for second straight year

Liz Kimbrough 26 Feb 2020

Rare songbird recovers, moves off endangered species list

Mongabay.com 11 Oct 2019

Tiny subterranean Texas salamanders could be extinct in 100 years

Morgan Erickson-Davis 8 Mar 2019

Marine mammal and sea turtle populations benefitting from Endangered Species Act listing

Mongabay.com 25 Jan 2019

The true story of how 96 endangered sea turtle hatchlings survived a New York City beach

Mike Gaworecki 19 Dec 2018

2700 scientists issue call to action on border wall wildlife threat

Morgan Erickson-Davis 25 Jul 2018

Trump Admin unveils plan to weaken the US Endangered Species Act

Mongabay.com 24 Jul 2018

U.K. ban relegates legal ivory trade to ‘a thing of the past’

Mongabay.com 3 Apr 2018

Know your ESA: an online resource for Endangered Species Act docs and data

Sue Palminteri (1965-2019) 20 Dec 2017

Should we be optimistic about the future of the earth? (commentary)

Ed Warner 15 May 2017

Giraffes are endangered, groups argue, file petition with U.S.

Fred Bercovitch 19 Apr 2017

As America’s Endangered Species List turns 50, uncertainty abounds

Mongabay.com 14 Mar 2017

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