What is Killing the Tasmanian Devil?

The island’s most famous inhabitant is under attack by a diabolical disease
May 2012 | By Abigail Tucker

Make Way for the African Penguins

Few places let you get as close to the raffish birds—many of which are endangered—as South Africa’s Robben Island
May 2012 | By Charles Bergman

The Fight to Save the Tiger

The great cat is disappearing throughout its range because of habitat loss and illegal hunting, but an innovative scientist in India may have discovered a way to avert extinction
April 2012 | By Phil McKenna

A Debate Over The Best Way to Protect the Tiger

Experts battle each other over a $350 million plan to keep the tiger from becoming extinct
April 2012 | By Phil McKenna

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

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