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PFAS and other chemical pollution are posing a growing threat to the little auk (Alle alle) and other Arctic seabirds.

PFAS ‘forever chemicals’ harming wildlife the world over: Study

Sharon Guynup 26 Sep 2023
A Mojave Desert tortoise with an iButton attached to it.

How hot are the desert tortoises getting? iButtons help find the answer

Abhishyant Kidangoor 20 Sep 2023
Orphanage manager Claudia Andrione with older rhino orphans at the orphanage.

African Parks to rewild 2,000 rhinos from controversial breeding program

Jim Tan 11 Sep 2023

Off Mexico’s coast, world’s largest limpet is slipping into extinction

Sean Mowbray 30 Aug 2023
A rhino in the orphanage at the Platinum Rhino project site.

World’s largest private rhino herd doesn’t have a buyer — or much of a future

Jim Tan 11 Aug 2023
Brazil’s thin-spined porcupine (Chaetomys subspinosus).

Translocation is a viable option for Brazil’s threatened porcupines: Study

Vitor Alexandre Araujo Prado dos Anjos 9 Aug 2023
A Theocostele alata flower.

Bangladesh orchid losses signal ecological imbalance, researchers say

Farhana Parvin 25 Jul 2023
A kipunji.

Meet the kipunji: A rare primate success story in Tanzania

Ruth Kamnitzer 5 Jul 2023
A cotton-top tamarin.

Effort to save rare Colombian monkey looks to crowdfund its conservation

Aimee Gabay 5 Jul 2023
Two striped snakeheads mating.

Bangladesh ramps up freshwater fish conservation in bid for food security

Farhana Parvin 4 Jul 2023
Rafflesia flower.

Philippines research offers hope for conserving enigmatic Rafflesia plants

Mikael Angelo S. Francisco 3 Jul 2023
A park blooming with more blue camas.

Volunteers, First Nations work to bring back a disappearing oak prairie

Spoorthy Raman 19 Jun 2023
A lioness with cubs

Return of the lions: Large protected areas in Africa attract apex predator

Petro Kotzé 13 Jun 2023
An African elephant.

Global study of 71,000 animal species finds 48% are declining

Sharon Guynup 5 Jun 2023
A European eel (Anguilla anguilla) underwater.

Conservationists aim to save critically endangered European eels on Italy’s Po River

Lucrezia Lozza 26 May 2023
Sumatran rhinos

‘I’m not distressed, I’m just pissed off’: Q&A with Sumatran rhino expert John Payne

Jeremy Hance 11 May 2023
A Himalayan griffon (Gyps himalayensis).

Bangladesh’s vultures still threatened by poison despite conservation actions

Abu Siddique 28 Apr 2023

Bankrolling biodiversity: How are private philanthropists investing in nature?

Daniel Pye 14 Apr 2023

Flawed count puts ‘glorified’ Javan rhinos on path to extinction, report says

Basten Gokkon 11 Apr 2023
West African lioness Florence with one of her cubs.

Video of rare West African lion cubs sparks hope for the population

Liz Kimbrough 17 Mar 2023
A Philippine eagle with its solar powered GPS tracker harnessed on its back.

New map boosts Philippine eagle population estimate, but highlights threats

Keith Anthony Fabro 14 Mar 2023
Przewalski horses and foal at ZSL's conservation Zoo at Whipsnade.

Last chance: Study highlights perilous state of ‘extinct in the wild’ species

Liz Kimbrough 14 Mar 2023
Two researchers measuring a Victoria boliviana leaf.

Kew Gardens joins local partners to save tropical plants from extinction

Sue Branford 15 Feb 2023
Blacktip sharks and remoras.

Study: Paying fishers to ease off sharks and rays is cost-effective conservation

Cassie Freund 6 Feb 2023
A crab-eating frog.

EU demand for frogs’ legs raises risks of local extinctions, experts warn

Sean Mowbray 23 Jan 2023

Top 15 species discoveries from 2022 (Photos)

Liz Kimbrough 29 Dec 2022
A harpy eagle.

Bird declines boost case for transformative biodiversity agreement in Montreal

John Cannon 29 Nov 2022

New protections for sharks, songbirds, frogs and more at CITES trade summit

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 25 Nov 2022

Conservationists play matchmaker to boost Argentina’s jaguar gene pool

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 23 Nov 2022

Will shipping noise nudge Africa’s only penguin toward extinction?

Leonie Joubert 21 Nov 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
An African penguin standing sleepily in a patch of green. Image by Alberto Ziveri via Flickr (BY-SA 2.0)

Breeding success raises hopes for future of endangered African penguin

Ryan Truscott 15 Nov 2022

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