Standing as tall as 100 feet and measuring as much as 10 feet in diameter, the iconic American chestnut tree once dominated forests from Maine to Georgia and could be found as far west as Illinois with a few stands showing up in northern Louisiana.
Conservationists are pursuing an aggressive campaign to reintroduce cheetahs from Africa back into India. Their first destination: Kuno National Park.
Standing in the way of construction of a state-of-the-art geothermal energy plant in central Nevada is none other than the renowned Dixie Valley toad.
The India-based Snow Leopard Trust has pioneered a model of conservation that works with communities to protect the big cats in 12 countries.
Gobi are small, carnivorous fish that are common to tropic locales. There are more than 2,200 species of them throughout the world.
The Biden Administration, in a mad and ineffective rush to stave off climate catastrophe, is confounding those who seek protection of threatened and endangered species and habitat.
Why are elephants afraid of bees?
California red-legged frogs are successfully returning to Yosemite National Park after an extensive rehabilitation effort. The work is a result of combined talent, and resources of the National Park Service, Yosemite Conservancy, the San Francisco Zoo & Gardens, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, California Department of Fish & Wildlife, and NatureBridge. The California red-legged frog was a staple resident of Yosemite until about 50 years ago, when their numbers finally dwindled. Today, the collaborative rehabilitation plan is seeing new frog eggs appear in the wild even sooner than was expected. As reported by the National Park Service: “A new generation of [...]
“The San Nicolas Island fox, a subspecies of the Channel Island Fox only found on the most remote of California’s eight Channel Islands, is at a low risk of extinction, new research published last week in Ecosphere shows.
The sand dollars were alive when they washed in during high tides and became stranded, but they ‘are unable to make it back to the water once the tide recedes,’ aquarium representatives said. ‘This is resulting in them drying up and dying
Almost completely absent from the media are the success stories of elephant conservation.
“Conservation officials in Indonesia have reported a sighting of two new Javan rhinoceros calves, boosting hopes for stable population growth of the nearly extinct species.
Bark beetles ravage forests. Introducing new trees may not be the hoped for solution.
A study shows that, despite reaching critically low levels, nesting populations of green and loggerhead turtles have recovered significantly.
Bald eagle's low point came in 1963 when there were only 417 known pairs. Efforts to protect the eagles have seen their numbers claw back to healthy levels. Bald eagles were delisted as an “endangered” species in 2007 under President George W. Bush.