Endangered Species
North America’s Most Endangered Animals
Snails, marmots, condors and coral reef are among the many species on the continent that are close to extinction
May 19, 2011 |
By Megan Gambino, Erin Wayman and Sarah Zielinski
Survival Training, Ferret Style
Before the captive animals can go free, they have to hone their killer instinct at a conservation center in Colorado
February 2011 |
By Morgan Heim
Saving the Silky Sifaka
In Madagascar, an American researcher races to protect one of the world's rarest mammals, a white lemur known as the silky sifaka
April 2010 |
By Erica R. Hendry
A Coral Reef's Mass Spawning
Understanding how corals reproduce is critical to their survival; Smithsonian's Nancy Knowlton investigates the annual event
December 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Wildlife Trafficking
A reporter follows the lucrative, illicit and heartrending trade in stolen wild animals deep into Ecuador's rain forest
December 2009 |
By Charles Bergman
A Swim Through the Ocean's Future
Can a remote, geologically weird island in the South Pacific forecast the fate of coral reefs?
September 17, 2009 |
By Christopher Pala
Requiem for the Redhead
The next great extinction—Carrot Tops
February 2009 |
By Patricia McNamee Rosenberg
Invasion of the Cassowaries
Passions run high in an Australian town: Should the endangered birds be feared—or fed?
October 2008 |
By Brendan Borrell
Condors in a Coal Mine
California's lead bullet ban protects condors and other wildlife, but its biggest beneficiaries may be humans
September 09, 2008 |
By John Moir
Rare Breed
Can Laurie Marker help the world's fastest mammal outrun its fate?
March 2008 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Saving the Cheetah
National Zoo scientist Adrienne Crosier discusses how scientists are using artificial
insemination to rescue the species
March 2008 |
By Helen Starkweather
Q and A With the Rhino Man
Wildlife biologist Hemanta Mishra's efforts to save the endangered Indian rhinoceros
March 01, 2008 |
By Sarah Zielinski
UPDATE: State of Emergency
The latest on the endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo
January 09, 2008 |
By Jess Blumberg
On the Prowl
Rare jaguar sightings have sparked a debate about how to ensure the cats' survival in the American West
November 2007 |
By Jeremy Kahn
A Pox Upon the Kauri
New Zealanders rally to save their much-loved, 2,000-year-old national symbol
October 2007 |
By Debora Vrana
The Amazing Albatrosses
They fly 50 miles per hour. Go years without touching land. Predict the weather. Mate for life. And they're among the world's most endangered birds. Can albatrosses be saved?
September 2007 |
By Kennedy Warne
Flying North to Fly South
Preparing the critically endangered whooping crane for migration could save the flock
September 01, 2007 |
By Alistair Wearmouth
Fish Story
Native trout are returning to America's rivers and streams, thanks to new thinking by scientists and conservationists
August 2007 |
By Robert M. Poole
State of Emergency
The slaughter of four endangered mountain gorillas in war-ravaged Congo sparks conservationist action
August 01, 2007 |
By Jess Blumberg
Tasmanian Tailspin
Can a new plan to relocate the Tasmanian devil save the species?
June 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
