Articles tagged as Conservation | Smithsonian Magazine

Cross River gorilla photographed by a camera trap

A proposed project in Cross River State would cut through protected areas and threaten endangered species like the Cross River gorilla

November 2, 2016

Mangroves are rich and biodiverse coastal ecosystems that flood and emerge with the tides. Now villagers are burning these trees to better their lives.

Madagascar’s Mangroves: The Ultimate Giving Trees

Locals already use the trees for food, fuel and building materials. Now they’re burning them to make lime clay

October 20, 2016

Throughout her long life, Jia Jia helped the dwindling number of pandas bounce back

October 18, 2016

Cool Finds

New Sanctuary for Rare and Fluffy Wildcats to Open in Siberia

As their numbers dwindle, the poofy Pallas’ Cats will finally get their own protected park

October 10, 2016

A judge recently ordered the Fish and Wildlife Service to let the endangered wolves stay where they are

October 6, 2016

Bermuda

The Strange Reappearance of the Once-Vanished Green Sea Turtle

It’s a conservation biology riddle wrapped in a mystery inside a hard shell

October 4, 2016

Since his discovery in 2005, Toughie the frog has been the face of amphibian extinction

October 4, 2016

Two students stole and released an endangered African penguin from an Oceanarium. The problem is Buddy doesn’t have the skills to survive

September 29, 2016

A sun-bleached skull is evidence of the first recorded jaguar predation on a black bear, linked to the big cat roaming this terrain.

The Return of the Great American Jaguar

The story of tracking a legendary feline named El Jefe through the Arizona mountains

October 2016

Wild horses in Death Valley, California.

The iconic symbol of the Wild West has a tangled and controversial story

September 20, 2016

A new imaging system could help people to read books without touching them.

New Research

This Camera Uses Radiation to Read Closed Books

No need to open a book to read past its cover

September 14, 2016

The proposed pipeline is nearly 60 percent complete.

Understanding the Controversy Behind the Dakota Access Pipeline

What to know as protesters and the oil company continue to clash

September 14, 2016

Magritte apparently recycled a lost painting to create The Human Condition.

Cool Finds

Curators Are One Piece Closer to Solving the Mystery of Magritte’s Missing Painting

The Enchanted Pose is coming back from the dead—one painted-over quarter at a time

September 13, 2016

Reports found that critically endangered largetooth sawfish are sometimes passed off as shark in some fish markets.

Anthropocene

Fish Industry On the Hook for Rampant Mislabeling of Species

A new report identifies rampant fraud in the seafood industry

September 12, 2016

The Billion Oyster Project is trying to help restore oysters to New York City's waterways.

Cool Finds

Thousands of Toilets Submerged in NY Harbor Go From Bathroom Throne to Oyster Home

It’s much too soon to eat them, though

September 12, 2016

They aren’t the only ones in trouble: the state of the great apes is more dire than ever

September 6, 2016

Cool Finds

Rare Great White Shark Nursery Discovered Off the Coast of New York

Researchers find North Atlantic great whites spend their first 20 years in the waters off Montauk, Long Island

August 29, 2016

"Sturgeon Whisperer" Nick McCabe with his catch, the 650-pound "Pig Nose"

Nicknamed “Pig Nose,” the fish was quickly released back into the wild

August 26, 2016

100 Years Later, the First International Treaty to Protect Birds Has Grown Wings

The U.S. and Canada celebrate the centennial of an agreement recognizing that birds see no borders

August 18, 2016

Captive Bactrian deer at The Wilds, a conservation center in Cumberland, Ohio. Until recently, the deer was feared locally extinct in Afghanistan.

Rare Afghan Deer Endures Two Major Wars, Is Ultimate Survivor

Researchers feared the endangered ungulate had gone locally extinct. The Bactrian deer proved them wrong

August 15, 2016