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endangered species

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
Sumatran rhino baby
Science
As Sumatran rhinos face extinction, scientists come to their rescue
elephants
Global Politics
Report: African wildlife threatened by militia poaching
Florida panther
Science
Keeping tabs on the elusive Florida panther
Horned viper
Technology
Online location data on endangered species might be putting them in harm’s way
Invasive species
Science
Report: Invasive species target islands, coastal areas while upending ecosystems
Wildlife bridge
Environment
A plan to save more than 80 percent of Earth’s species
A close-up view of an eye of the Northern White Rhino named Sudan.
Culture
The world’s most eligible bachelor likes to eat grass and chill in the mud
The vaquita marina is a critically endangered porpoise species that lives only in the northern part of the Gulf of California. Scientists believe the population may be down to just 30 animals.
Environment
Adios, vaquita marina? Mexico’s ‘little sea cow’ is being pushed to the edge of extinction.
Gobi grizzly
Environment
One of the world’s rarest grizzlies lives in the Gobi Desert — and it needs help
Spraying pesticides
Health
Three major pesticides are likely to harm nearly all US endangered species
Vaquita
Environment
The rarest porpoise in the world is on the verge of disappearing forever
Clinic Exterior
Health
Protecting Indonesia’s forests, one doctor’s appointment at a time
Blanding's turtle baby
Environment
A conservation group has teamed up with Massachusetts students to give Blanding’s turtles a new lease on life
A Sapphire Golden Arowana, named "Long Zai" or "Little Dragon" in Cantonese, swims in its tank at its owner's residence in Kajang outside Kuala Lumpur March 5, 2012. Known for its agile body, sleek shiny scales and the "whiskers" that give it a resemblanc
Books
The fish people kill to own
Caribou on a winter landscape in British Columbia
Environment
In British Columbia, the government has begun killing wolves in order to save the caribou
Wolf howling
Environment
Researchers show wolves use ‘howling dialects’ to communicate
Tourists at a beach in Argentina crowd around a young Franciscan dolphin that was later left dead on the sand.
Environment
Did a group of photo-taking tourists really kill an endangered dolphin in Argentina?
The Ricord's iguana, which lives only on the island of Hispaniola, was thought to be extinct in Haiti until a small population was discovered in the southeastern corner of the country eight years ago. Now the three foot-long lizard is the subject of a rar
Environment
Where human life is precarious, Haitians look out for a rare Iguana
Saiga mass grave
Environment
What’s killing the endangered Saiga antelope of Central Asia?
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.
A whale shark is seen in the Galapagos Islands in this September 5, 2012 picture released to Reuters.
Environment
Your vacation photos might actually help save the world’s biggest fish
Populations of marlin and other big game fish in the waters between Florida and Cuba are under growing pressure from overfishing and habitat destruction.
Environment
Can Hemingway help break down the barriers between the US and Cuba?
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
Devils Hole pupfish
Global Scan
The US government is spending millions to save a few dozen fish
A pig-nosed turtle, which is becoming a favorite as an exotic pet.
Environment
Pig-nosed turtles are adorable — and that’s made them the target of traffickers
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
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
Environment
Africa’s rhinos may have to leave Africa, for their own good
Environment
A National Geographic photographer tries to save endangered tigers through his photos
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
Environment
North Pole reindeer in danger of extinction
Environment
European Union turning to science to help find, stop illegal fishing
Environment
VIDEO: Australian conservationists using a dog to help save endangered penguins
Development & Education
How to save endangered species
Sea Turtle Paternity Test
Endangered Species Gain More Protection
Environment
Conservation Drones Help Protect Orangutans
Conservation Canine
Global Politics
A Controversial Wildlife Refuge on Tiger Island
Global Politics
Turtles Find Themselves in the Middle of Political Rift in Cyprus
Global Politics
Sea Turtle Poaching and High Demand in China
Global Politics
Slideshow: FishPopTrace Program Using DNA to Counter Overfishing
Dispatches from America’s Endangered Species Act
Reappearing Animals
Endangered Species Act Update
Frozen Zoos
The Living on Earth Almanac
Trumpeter Swans: Of Lead, Whirligigs, and E.B. White
The Living on Earth Almanac
The Living on Earth Almanac