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One man plants forest larger than Central Park

It only took 2,500 people to kill off the world’s biggest birds

The only solution for polar bears: ‘stop the rise in CO2 and other greenhouse gases’

Photos: Czech Republic publicly burns confiscated rhino horns

What makes the jaguar the ultimate survivor? New books highlights mega-predator’s remarkable past and precarious future

20 percent of Africa’s elephants killed in three years

Want to save Africa’s elephants? Close all ivory markets

Desperate measures: researchers say radical approaches needed to beat extinctions

On babies and motherhood: how giant armadillos are surprising scientists (photos)

Grenades, helicopters, and scooping out brains: poachers decimate elephant population in park

Despite poaching, Indian rhino population jumps by 27 percent in eight years

Featured video: elephant advocates ask Antiques Roadshow to stop appraising ivory

Death of young Sumatran rhino shouldn’t discourage captive breeding efforts say conservationists

Kala: the face of tigers in peril

Meet Iman: the Sumatran rhino’s newest hope for survival

Blame humans: new research proves people killed off New Zealand’s giant birds

Conservationists catch wild Sumatran rhino, raising hope for world’s most endangered rhinoceros

Palm oil plantations allegedly poison seven Critically Endangered elephants in Sumatra

Ivory trade’s shocking toll: 65% of world’s forest elephants killed in 12 years (warning: graphic image)

Over 75 percent of large predators declining

Scientists make one of the biggest animal discoveries of the century: a new tapir

86 percent of big animals in the Sahara Desert are extinct or endangered

Elusive giraffe-relative – the okapi – now listed as Endangered

Armored giant turns out to be vital ecosystem engineer

Tapirs, drug-trafficking, and eco-police: practicing conservation amidst chaos in Nicaragua

Nutrient deficiency in Amazon rainforest linked to megafauna extinction

Kenya getting tough on poachers, set to increase fines and jail time

Malaysia may be home to more Asian tapirs than previously thought (photos)

Bison return to Germany after 300 year absence

Seeing the forest through the elephants: slaughtered elephants taking rainforest trees with them

Scientists document baby giant armadillo for first time (photos)

Photos: Scientists discover tapir bonanza in the Amazon

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