Articles tagged as Endangered Species

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

The southern African nation now supports protection for the animals instead of limited sales of ivory

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

Scaly, ant-eating mammals, pangolins curl up when they're scared.

It’s a big win for a weird little creature

September 28, 2016

Is It Too Late to Save Red Sea Sharks?

With anti-fishing laws virtually unenforced, sharks off the coast of Saudi Arabia are being fished to death

September 19, 2016

Researchers fear that these normal monk seal encounters could soon grow deadly.

Why Rare Hawaiian Monk Seals Are Lining Up to Get Their Shots

Fearing devastating disease, researchers are vaccinating a wild marine mammal for the first time

September 16, 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

What kept giraffes apart so long that they developed into separate species?

New Research

There Are Four Giraffe Species—Not Just One

The downside to this revelation: several of the new species are critically endangered

September 12, 2016

Benjamin photographed at Beaumaris Zoo in 1933.

Remembering the Tasmanian Tiger, 80 Years After It Became Extinct

Today, the animal’s memory is alive and well in Australia

September 7, 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

California condors rebounded after almost going extinct—but that doesn't mean the precious, weird birds are in the clear.

New Research

Humans Still Threaten Endangered Condors

Thanks to industrial byproducts and pesticides, birds face more contamination than their cousins inland

August 9, 2016

Temperature-sensitive pikas store grass for winter munching.

Future of Conservation

How Climate Change Will Transform the National Parks’ Iconic Animals and Plants

Dramatic changes may force park managers to choose which species will live, and which will die

August 8, 2016

Leopard territory in Southeast Asia has been reduced by 94 percent.

New Research

The Indochinese Leopard Is Down to Just a Few Lives

These threatened cats now occupy just 8 percent of their historic range in Cambodia, new population estimate finds

August 4, 2016

An eastern wolf in Ontario's Algonquin Provincial Park.

Rare Wolf or Common Coyote? It Shouldn’t Matter, But It Does

The concept of species is flawed, but it still has a huge bearing on conservation policy

August 3, 2016

The skeleton of a new species of beaked whale in Unalaska high school

New Research

New Species of Beaked Whale Discovered in Alaska

DNA analysis and a washed up corpse confirm this a new dark-colored species of beaked whale

July 28, 2016

Banaue rice terraces (N. Luzon, Philippines) taken from observation point at beginning of road to Bontoc

Age of Humans

Since the Late Pleistocene Humans Were Already Radically Transforming the Earth

A new study suggests that trying to return habitats to a non human-impacted environment might not be realistic

June 7, 2016

One of the olm eggs laid in January 2016.

Biologists have waited with bated breath for months

June 3, 2016

New restrictions will make it harder to sell ivory from African elephants.

Will tighter rules help reduce global demand?

June 2, 2016

A tiger held captive at Thailand's so-called "Tiger Temple" in 2011.

Thai officials found nearly 140 captive tigers as well as 40 dead cubs kept in freezers at the self-proclaimed sanctuary

June 1, 2016