Scientists have recorded the first field images of the critically endangered dhole at Pu Hoat Nature Reserve in Nghe An ...

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A polar bear stood outside the Department of the Interior’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., Thursday with a message: “Stop Trump’s Extinction Plan.” The sign-carrying Arctic creature—actually an ...

National Geographic photographer and WWF ambassador Jasper Doest joined conservation teams during the latest mountain gorilla census in Bwindi Impenetrable national park, taking pictures of the apes a ...

You never forget your first glimpse of a Cascade red fox. For the wildlife photographer Gretchen Kay Stuart, it happened in 2020, while she was driving up the slope of Washington State’s Mount Rainier ...

A viral Instagram collection of extraordinary wildlife images is showcasing rare and elusive species, from melanistic leopards to deep-sea octopuses. The photos highlight biodiversity under threat, ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

Scientists described numerous new species this past year, from the world’s smallest otter in India to a fanged hedgehog from Southeast Asia, tree-dwelling frogs in Madagascar, and a new family of ...

WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has launched a process to redefine what it means to “harm” threatened and endangered species, the first step toward stripping habitat protections from rare plants ...

We are on the cusp of losing the integrity of one of the most significant environmental acts ever enacted in the United States. Why should this matter? As the Pulitzer Prize-winning evolutionary ...