In the sixth mass extinction, the so-called "Anthropocene extinction", species are disappearing much faster than would happen "naturally" - namely ...

The past three years have been turbulent for the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a region that has experienced ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A critically endangered Western lowland gorilla, named "Oscar Jonesy," died on Thursday afternoon following a medical procedure at 43 years old, according to the San Francisco Zoo.

SAN FRANCISCO - A critically endangered Western lowland gorilla, named "Oscar Jonesy," died on Thursday afternoon following a medical procedure at 43 years old, according to the San Francisco Zoo. He ...

Turkey is a member state of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), which aims to monitor and eliminate illegal transportation like this. When it ...

TAMPA, Fla. — It's a girl! ZooTampa staff announced they welcomed a brand new Eastern bongo calf on Jan. 24. Millie the calf, who is critically endangered, was born to 9-year-old mother ...

As one of the original “Hellbender Defenders,” I am ecstatic that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) is proposing to include the eastern hellbender under the Endangered Species Act.

In the Virunga National Forest, the mountain gorilla population sits in the middle of a war zone in the Democratic Republic of the Congo as forest rangers track and keep a watchful eye on the ...