The Manipur Bush-Quail is known to be shy. It is also believed to have been extinct for nearly 80 years. A prominent ornithologist has made history by sighting this shy little bird in the north-eastern Indian state of Assam.
A World Wildlife Fund report this week says that efforts to save pandas and tigers and gorillas can also reduce poverty and improve the lives of local communities in rural areas.
A Condor nest has been spotted in Northern California for the first time in 100 years. It is believed to contain an egg. Population levels have increased tenfold in recent decades thanks to condor recovery efforts, but this is the first time since 1905 that an active nest appeared in the Big Sur area. KTVU […]
Brazil enacted protections for the coral reefs which are the biologically richest in the South Atlantic. A buffer zone was created around the Abrolhos National Marine Park involving nearly 95,000 square kilometers â€" an area larger than Portugal.
The first birth of Amur tiger cubs in over a century has been reported in southeast Siberia, according to WWF.
Two frog species feared extinct have been rediscovered in Colombia, a boost for scientists battling to save rare amphibians
The brook trout, once endangered in the Eastern US is making a comeback. So much that officials are allowing catching and keeping for the first time in 30 years.
Faced with a marked increase in fishing on the high seas, six countries and the EU have signed an agreement covering a vast area of the South Indian Ocean in what a United Nations official has hailed as a major step forward in conservation and sustainable fishing.
A glimmer of orange will continue to blossom across Canada, the United States and Mexico. All three have agreed to designate thirteen Monarch butterfly preserves as part of a new Trilateral Monarch Butterfly Sister Protected Area Network.
Nine manta rays were recently spotted for the first time in 20 years gliding through Basura, the internationally-renowned dive site in the Philippines.
Volunteers with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation planted hundreds of thousands of baby oysters into a specially prepared habitat made of recycled chunks of concrete last week.
Elk are alive and well in the Lower Mainland of BC for the first time in a century, following the transplanting of two separate populations two years ago.
Zoos and aquariums from around the world are being rallied to collect frog species to build a virtual Amphibian's Ark of preservation against an epidemic of frog-felling fungus that threatens thousands of species from the American Rocky Mountains to the rice paddies of Japan.
The Bush Administration has formally proposed to list the Polar Bear as “threatened with extinction" under the Endangered Species Act due to Arctic ice melt from global warming.
Loggerhead nestings have reached record high levels in South Africa, a positive sign for the endangered marine turtle...
Visit "Tundra Connections" this week to participate in free, live webcasts from the Hudson Bay, featuring leading experts and wild polar bears. Segments will broadcast from onboard a tundra vehicle specially-equipped with high-speed internet, cameras and stabilizers for beaming live clips of polar bears in the wild.
Conservation efforts in Africa have successfully tripled the number of black rhinoceros in African reserves over the past decade. There are currently about 4,700 of the critically endangered rhinos, up from a low of nearly 2,100 in the early 1990s.
Thanks to strong conservation and law enforcement efforts, not a single rhino was killed by poachers in Nepal, the first such year in 29 years. Conservationists in the Himalayan nation celebrated at Chitwan National Park, which holds the vast majority of the country's 534 rhinos.
The boom of the bittern is being heard across Britain once again, after more than a century in which the bird has hovered on the edge of extinction. Noted for its foghorn-like call or boom, the bittern has made a recovery in numbers that the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds described last week as a phenomenal success.
Scientists working in the dense jungles of Indonesia have rediscovered a large, gray monkey so rare it was believed by many to be extinct.