News and research about endangered species from around the world
Ethiopian lions, Florida panthers, Sumatran rhinos and Yangtze porpoises are among the endangered species in the news this week.Well that was Interesting: The Internet was abuzz this week with "news" about how a pack of lions in Ethiopia supposedly saved a teenage girl from kidnapping rapists...
Primates that spend their entire lives in trees tend not to survive after those trees are cut down. Sadly, that's what's happening in northeast India, where the forest habitats for one of the world's rarest apes are rapidly disappearing...
Central Africa has become increasingly inhospitable to forest elephants, according to a study published March 4 in PLoS One that found that 62 percent of the species was killed by poachers between 2002 and 2011...
Ivory smugglers, manatees, Iranian cheetahs, slow lorises and Britain's beloved hedgehogs are in the news this week.Ethics and Endangered Species: A new study accuses wildlife photographers of unethical behavior when it comes to the slender loris (either Loris tardigradus or L...
Australia has a feral cat problem. Cats and other invasive predators have driven dozens of the country's native bird, reptile and small mammal species into extinction, and continue to threaten several others...
In 1877 a British lieutenant colonel and naturalist named R.H. Beddome looked under a rock in the Indian state of Orissa and discovered a new gecko species.
Last year I wrote somewhere around 150 articles about endangered species. I could have easily written closer to 1,000. One blog simply can't cover all of threatened species around the world, as hard as I try...
The population of critically endangered yellow-crested cockatoos ( Cacatua sulphurea ) in the Indonesian province of West Nusa Tenggara has reached an all-time low of 107 individual birds, according to a recent report from The Jakarta Post ...
Asia's turtles and tortoises are in an extinction crisis. Few species embody that more than the critically endangered golden coin turtle ( Cuora trifasciata ), which is so valued in the illegal pet trade and for its use in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) that a single specimen can fetch $25,000 or more on the black market...
A South African butterfly species that lepidopterists feared had gone extinct more than a decade ago has been rediscovered after a search on Google Earth revealed a habitat much like the insect’s former home...
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