Piping Plovers are federally designated endangered species that nest on Connecticut beaches in spring and summer. They require very specific habitats for nesting and state officials and environmental ...

Hunters were once the greatest human threat to the country’s only unique wolf species. Today, it’s motorists. That fact was brought home last June, when red wolf breeding male No. 2444 was struck and ...

Mission Creek Correctional Facility is giving a select handful of female prisoners the opportunity of a lifetime to help scientists revive an endangered species. Just a two-hour drive from Seattle, ...

Across the globe, thousands of species face the threat of extinction due to habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and climate ...

Scientists have discovered mosquitoes can act like tiny "flying wildlife surveyors," helping researchers detect elusive and endangered animals in Australia's national parks. A team from Macquarie ...

The Arizona Game and Fish Department released 19 endangered black-footed ferrets at three sites in northern Arizona last week as part of the long-running reintroduction program for the imperiled ...

LUFKIN, Texas (KTRE) - The Ellen Trout Zoo in Lufkin is helping the Association of Zoos and Aquariums with the conservation of certain alligators and crocodiles. The zoo is under the Species Survival ...

Washington, DC—Today the US Fish and Wildlife Service and the National Marine Fisheries Service (the Services) issued a proposed rule that would undermine protections for habitat that threatened and ...

Donations to the DNR's Endangered Resources Fund are matched, doubling the impact of voluntary contributions to the agency's work to conserve rare animals, plants and state natural areas.

In a social media post on March 19, Mandai said the pup was the first to be born there in 10 years. The Sunda pangolin (Manis Javanica) is considered critically endangered by the International Union ...

A critically endangered monkey has given birth just months after pioneering surgery saved her from undergoing an amputation. Masaya, a 15-year-old roloway monkey at Chester Zoo, had a golf-ball-sized ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature, or IUCN for short, is one of the most powerful wildlife organizations. It comprises both civil and government groups, which study and support the ...