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.
A dog named Tucker with a mysterious past as a stray on the streets of Seattle has become an unexpected star in the realm of canine-assisted scientific research. He is the world's only working dog, marine biologists say, able to find and track the scent of orca feces, in open ocean water — up to a mile away.
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.
The last decade has been the best for UK rivers since the Industrial Revolution, according to the Environment Agency. Rivers in England and Wales are at their healthiest for over a century, with otters, salmon and other wildlife returning to many rivers in record numbers in locations across the country.
A few of the lost species thought to be extinct have made miraculous reappearances in 2010, like the Sierra Nevada Red Fox, an earthworm that smells like lillies when handled, a slender loris, and the short tailed albatross...
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, a longtime defender of large endangered animals announced that Russia has banned the hunting of polar bears this year, even for the indigenous people in far-eastern Russia across the Bering Strait, for whom officials have said hunting is vital.
Researchers from Yale University say dozens of giant tortoises of a species believed extinct for 150 years may still be living at a remote location in the Galápagos Islands.
Nobody gives hugs like grandma — especially when the hugs are bringing life to orphan elephants that would otherwise die without their mama in the wake of poaching tragedies. Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick does that by running the world's most successful elephant and rhino rescue.
For the first time since the 1920s, a family of gray wolves, two adults and five pups, have been spotted in the hills of Northern California.
After being thought to have disappeared in Manitoba altogether, the burrowing owl has once again been found inhabiting the province's grasslands.
Though Cecil the Lion's death was a horrific event to many, the tragedy led to two significant triumphs for animal rights groups to curb sport hunting.
Scientists learn that finches allowed to freely choose their mates make for happier couples and better parents.
A husky-mix dog was so upset to lose contact with his owner who was being hospitalized that he traveled more than 2 miles away tracking him down at the Good Samaritan Medical Center.
A photo posted on Reddit has gone viral for its depiction of a loyal dog waiting for their deceased dad on the driver's seat of his tow-truck. The photo caption says their father died in June, but the dog still waits for him every day in the vehicle he used to drive.
An Alaskan malamute with a nose for mischief suddenly found a new mission for her afternoons: paying a daily visit to an ailing elderly neighbor and easing the stress of an entire family.
A tiny Chihuahua born with a genetic defect is now back in action, thanks to some ingenuity — and a little faith — from an Indianapolis veterinarian. Other clinics suggested euthanizing the baby, but Amy Birk of The Downtown Veterinarian wanted to help the couple whose Chihuahua gave birth to pup without front legs.
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