News and research about endangered species from around the world
One of the world's rarest fish species just got a lot rarer. The latest twice-annual count of tiny Devils Hole pupfish ( Cyprinodon diabolis ) at their sole habitat in Nevada has revealed just 35 of the critically endangered fish remain, down from 75 this past fall...
Rhinos, cheetahs, gray wolves and frogs are among the endangered species in the news this week. Worst News of the Week: All of the rhinos in Mozambique's Limpopo National Park have been completely wiped out by poachers, who are now turning their effort to the park's elephants...
For the first time in more than 30 years an American hunter has been allowed to import a trophy from a black rhino he shot in Africa back into the country.
Fan Peng-Fei of China's Dali University was worried the first time he entered the forest habitat of the critically endangered cao vit gibbon ( Nomascus nasutus ).
History books tell us that the last wild Barbary lion ( Panthera leo leo ) was probably killed in 1922 by a French colonial hunter in Morocco. But in repeating the tale of this well-documented death, the history books may have left a chapter or two out of the story.Barbary, or Atlas, lions once roamed throughout the deserts and mountains of northern Africa, ranging from Morocco to Egypt, far to the north of their sub-Saharan relatives...
Pygmy elephants, Asiatic lions and Siamese crocodiles are among the endangered species in the news this week.Pygmy elephant update: Remember the 14 pygmy elephants ( Elephas maximus borneensis ) that were poisoned in Borneo back in February?...
Why do some koalas die from chlamydia and an AIDS-like retrovirus whereas others manage to avoid contracting the sexually transmitted diseases? The answer, it seems, may be in the genes...
Bornean orangutans, gray bats and Grauer's gorillas are among the endangered species in the news this week.This Week's Most Heartbreaking Story: A family of Bornean orangutans ( Pongo pygmaeus ) was photographed clinging to the sole remaining tree in their former forest habitat after the rest of it had been chopped down for a palm oil plantation...
A new genus of bat has been discovered in South Sudan, the world's newest country. The strikingly striped bat has been placed into the genus Niumbaha , which means "rare" or "unusual" in the Zande language of the region...
Poaching, habitat loss, inbreeding and hybridization. These are just a few of the threats faced by many wild feline species around the globe. Here are six of the world's most endangered feline species and subspecies—some of which may not survive into the next century...
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