FORT COLLINS, Colo. (AP) — A ground-dwelling bird known for elaborate mating dances on the southern Great Plains will no longer be federally protected after the Trump administration…
Read more Trump Administration Ends Protections for Rare Dancing Prairie BirdCAPE TOWN, South Africa — They are hunted for their unique scales, and the demand makes them the most trafficked mammal in the world. Wildlife conservationists are again…
Read more These shy, scaly anteaters are the most trafficked mammals in the worldPORTLAND, Maine — The U.S.’s ocean regulator plans to make industry-friendly changes to a longstanding rule designed to protect vanishing whales, prompting criticism from environmental groups who cite…
Read more US ocean regulator faces criticism over changes to right whale protection ruleWASHINGTON — Billions of American chestnut trees once covered the eastern United States. They soared in height, producing so many nuts that sellers moved them by train car.…
Read more Genetic analysis could speed up restoration of iconic American chestnut: ScientistsInside the effort to bring back California condors – CBS News Watch CBS News More than a dozen California condors born in captivity are getting their first flights…
Read more Inside the effort to bring back California condorsMADISON, Wis. — President Donald Trump’s administration has delayed a decision on whether to extend federal protections to monarch butterflies indefinitely despite years of warnings from conservationists that…
Read more Trump administration delays decision on federal protections for monarch butterfliesSCARBOROUGH, Maine — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions of eggs before dying so their offspring can return home to rivers…
Read more Eel populations are falling, and new protections were defeated. Japan and the US opposed themSCARBOROUGH, Maine (AP) — Eels are the stuff of nightmares — slimy, snakelike creatures that lay millions of eggs before dying so their offspring can return home to…
Read more Eel Populations Are Falling, and New Protections Were Defeated. Japan and the US Opposed ThemThai rangers have arrested two men suspected of being part of an international wildlife smuggling network, the military said Saturday after they were intercepted in a car carrying…
Read more 81 monkeys and meth found in car driven by suspected wildlife smugglers, rangers in Thailand sayIndian customs officers have arrested a plane passenger after discovering two endangered gibbons stuffed inside a checked bag, the latest animals seized from smugglers at Mumbai’s airport. One…
Read more Endangered primates, 1 alive and 1 dead, found in checked bag at airport in IndiaBound, sedated and stuffed into bags: Poachers are ripping baby spider monkeys from their mothers in the forests of southern Mexico and selling them as pets on social…
Read more Poachers are killing families of spider monkeys, kidnapping their babies and selling them to Americans on social mediaAt Monte Albán in Mexico, a species was spotted for the first time. Matthew Essman via Unsplash For more than 1,000 years, ancient people built terraces, dams, pyramids…
Read more Blue and ‘cinnamon’ creatures caught at Mexico archaeology site for first timeWhen the corroded pipeline burst in 2015, inky crude spread along the Southern California coast, becoming the state’s worst oil spill in decades. More than 140,000 gallons (3,300…
Read more Trump Officials Back Firm in Fight Over California Offshore Oil Drilling After Huge SpillArctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and…
Read more New list of threatened species includes arctic seals, majority of bird species worldwideArctic seals are being pushed closer to extinction by climate change and more than half of bird species around the world are declining under pressure from deforestation and…
Read more Arctic seals and more than half of bird species are in trouble on latest list of threatened speciesDuring his regular checkup, a 9-year-old clouded leopard named Masala undergoes a procedure to get a tiny heart monitor implanted under his skin at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology…
Read more Human heart-monitoring devices find new life helping biologists understand threatened speciesAn Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70% of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s…
Read more UNESCO designates 26 new biosphere reserves amid biodiversity challenges and climate changeThe Minnesota Zoo, John Ball Zoo in Michigan and Assiniboine Park Conservancy in Canada have received the Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ 2025 North American Conservation Award for their…
Read more How the Minnesota Zoo is helping to save one of the world’s most endangered butterfliesEASTSOUND, Wash. — Once again, an endangered orca in Washington state has been seen carrying her dead newborn calf in an apparent effort to revive it. Researchers with…
Read more Endangered orca in Washington state seen carrying a dead calfMELBOURNE, Australia — A regulator has approved a world-first vaccine to protect koalas from chlamydia infections, which are causing infertility and death in the iconic native species that…
Read more Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from chlamydia