"Mining of transition metals poses a tricky balancing act between biodiversity conservation and climate action, both of which ...

Ronda, a five-month-old female, was moved to the Pygmy Hippo Nursing Suite in the South American Realm of the Zoo last week, ...

And "declines over decades" have driven the species into the two highest categories of extinction threat. African elephants were previously assessed as one species on the IUCN's Red List.

Oceanographic Research Institute scientists were surprised when DNA from an aurochs appeared in plankton samples collected at ...

Clevedon Swifts are installing boxes on homes and buildings to replace lost natural nesting sites.

The African elephant population was halved in the 1970s and ... The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is a United Nations Convention that ...

Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service responded by announcing that it will formally list African lions under the Endangered Species Act. You might think the Endangered Species Act applies ...

Analysis - You don't need to read the news or scroll through Instagram for long to stumble across the latest example of a rare and beautiful species that has gone extinct. Since AD1500, at least 705 ...

Cocooned in white bags and nestled in the arms of volunteers, eight young rhim gazelles -- an endangered species native to ...

Tanzania's lush landscapes and sprawling savannahs have always been a haven for birds, they are increasingly being encroached ...

Videos show how African elephants may be the first ... including the plowshare tortoise, a species that remains at risk of extinction due to poaching for the illegal pet trade.