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A sea turtle heads back to the ocean after the tortugueros have finished gathering data on it
Environment
Kino Bay’s Becerra family gave up traditional fishing to focus on saving sea turtles
At El Color de Mis Reves, or The Color of My Dreams, most of the land is covered by cloud forests. The owner wants the forest to regrow to give the wildlife more space.
Environment
Colombian farmers bet on bird-watching lodges to conserve forests
A record number of wolves are roaming the forests and fields of Oregon, 20 years after the species returned to the state.
Arts, Culture & Media
Charlotte McConaghy’s new novel imagines reintroducing wolves to the Scottish Highlands
A tiger crosses a road in India’s Ranthambore National Park.
Environment
GPS tracking could help tigers and traffic coexist across Asia
A woman with a green shirt, silver hair and a wrinkled face smiles
Environment
Jane Goodall: 60 years of research, activism and inspiration
Aerial view of greenery
Environment
‘Our Planet’ aims to raise awareness and offer solutions for an Earth in crisis
Longhorn cattle on Knepp Estate
Environment
A pioneering ‘rewilding’ project in England transforms a 200-year-old family farm
FORCE BLUE divers
Environment
Some former combat divers are now working to restore ocean health
Protestors hold up signs at a rally against a proposed Kinder Morgan oil pipeline expansion on Burnaby Mountain in 2014 in British Columbia. In late May, the Canadian government announced it would fund an expansion project for the Kinder Morgan Trans Moun
With pipeline decision, Canada’s Trudeau draws ire of environmental supporters
Blue Crab Nantucket
Environment
A determined UMass undergrad is gathering important data on the Nantucket Harbor crab population
elephants
Global Politics
Report: African wildlife threatened by militia poaching
Wild horses.
Environment
The trouble with managing America’s wild horses
minke whale
Science
In New York, a whale of a comeback story
Isabela pier, Galapagos Islands
Environment
Is tourism harming the Galápagos Islands?
Gorongosa
Books
Conservationists’ noble goals often conflict with local cultures, according to a new book
Wildlife bridge
Environment
A plan to save more than 80 percent of Earth’s species
Rancher Bill Johnson and wildlife researcher Carol Bogezi on Johnson's ranch in Washington's Teanaway Valley. Bogezi has been working with Johnson and other ranchers in eastern Washington to try to find a way to help them live more amicably with wolves.
Environment
How Washington ranchers are learning to cope with wolves, with lessons from Uganda
Gobi grizzly
Environment
One of the world’s rarest grizzlies lives in the Gobi Desert — and it needs help
Blanding's turtle baby
Environment
A conservation group has teamed up with Massachusetts students to give Blanding’s turtles a new lease on life
The Hawaiian population of Bluefin Trevally has been threatened by rapid decimation due to overfishing.
Economics
Environmentalists herald the beginnings of a race to protect the world’s oceans
Horseshoe crab
Environment
Horseshoe crabs save lives, but their numbers are dwindling
Pronghorn barbed wire
Environment
A way to save one of North America’s fastest animals
Beached whales
Environment
The US Navy agrees to limit the use of sonar and explosives in key whale habitat
Abandoned "ghost nets" take a deadly toll on fish and aquatic ecosystems around the world. The NetWorks program in the Philippines attacks the problem by paying fishermen to haul up old nets and then sends them to Europe and the US to be recycled into com
Environment
Philippines project turns ‘ghost’ fishing nets into carpets
Saola
Environment
The quest for the ‘Asian unicorn’
Chance and John Muir
Environment
New music brings conservationist John Muir’s story to life
A one-horned rhino named Baghekhaity stands next to its 10-day-old calf at a zoo in Guwahati, in the northeastern Indian state of Assam.
Environment
How to save rhinos? By turning their dung into paper.
Protesters march through São Paulo recently demanding equitable distribution of water throughout São Paulo state. Unofficial rationing has brought frequent water outages to neighborhoods throughout the Brazilian megalopolis of 20 million people.
Environment
São Paulo residents demand their city take a new attitude about water
A pair of gray wolves in an undated file photo that were moved from the Red Feather Lakes, Colorado, wolf refuge, to a new refuge in northern New Jersey.
Environment
How success saving the gray wolf may backfire on environmentalists
Hello Kitty
Global Scan
Japan’s Hello Kitty is not a kitty at all — she’s an English school girl
Global Scan
Are alleged ISIS passports a hoax?
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service's Forensic Lab in Ashland, Oregon includes a collection of reference samples of protected wildlife species. Lab staff say no animals were actually killed to build the collection.
Environment
The key to some big endangered species crime investigations is a small lab in Oregon
More than 1,000 rhinos were killed in South Africa last year. It's a 50% increase from the year before, proof of the escalating poaching crisis. Most of the rhinos were killed in Kruger National Park, a popular tourist destination.
Business, Economics and Jobs
Even evacuating South Africa’s rhinos may not save them from poachers
An Aboriginal performer in Sydney, Australia. Aboriginal languages in Australia are among the fastest-disappearing tongues in the world.
Environment
When languages die, ecosystems often die with them
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
Environment
A reporter finds China’s tiger farms likely contribute to poaching — rather than alleviating it
The golden snub-nosed monkey could be saved by a new law in China.
Global Scan
In China, a proposed law could save this endangered — and awfully cute — species
The golden snub-nosed monkey could be saved by a new law in China.
Global Scan
In China, a proposed law could save this endangered — and awfully cute — species
Tapir Scientist
Conservation Canine
Environment
Scientists working to de-extinct some of nature’s missing species
New monkey species discovered in Africa, but future may be in doubt
Environment
High demand for sea turtles in China sends poachers toward Philippines
Development & Education
How to save endangered species
Endangered Species Gain More Protection
Environment
Conservation Drones Help Protect Orangutans
Global Politics
A Controversial Wildlife Refuge on Tiger Island
Earth Ear
Global Politics
Sea Turtle Poaching and High Demand in China
Arts, Culture & Media
Malaysian City Home to Orangutan Rehabilitation Center
BirdNote ® – Snail Kite – Bird of the Everglades
Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
Business, Economics and Jobs
Saving the Orangutan
Reappearing Animals
Endangered Species Act Update
Wildlife Crossings
Frozen Zoos
The Living on Earth Almanac
Combating Bio-Invaders
The Living on Earth Almanac