Efforts to finish the Great Green Wall in Africa, which is halting desertification and poverty near the Sahara, got a $14 Billion boost.
IKEA recently bought an 11,000 acre forest in Georgia to keep it from being developed as part of its carbon reducing strategies.
What's happened with the Yukon to Yellowstone Y2Y wildlife corridor since it was launched in 1993 to protect Rocky Mountain animals?
The Rob and Melani Walton Foundation gave African Parks, which manages 19 protected areas on the continent, a donation of $100,000,000.
The Amur leopard was thrown a lifeline last week with the establishment of a new national park in Russia to help protect the world's rarest wild cat. Fewer than 40 Amur leopards are believed to exist in the wild. The majority of those currently reside in the new Land of the Leopard National Park, thanks to funds from the Russian government.
The Amur leopard was thrown a lifeline yesterday with the establishment of a new national park in Russia, announced by the World Wildlife Fund, to help protect the world's rarest wild cat. Fewer than 40 Amur leopards are believed to exist in the wild. The majority of those currently reside in the new Land of the Leopard National Park, which will be operated with funds from the Russian government.
The total world population of mountain gorillas has risen to 880, according to census data released last week by the Uganda Wildlife Authority. That's almost a ten percent increase over its 2010 estimate of 786. This is largely due to intensive conservation efforts and successful community engagement
Joriden Ligoyligoy is 15 years old, and he's known as the 'raptor boy' of the Philippines. Learn about his conservation work.
Lord Dunsany, Randall Plunkett, was once a city slicker death metal musician, but now he's trying to save the earth, turning land into wilds.
Under Minnesota's solar panels lie green wildflower-studded pastures where merry sheep graze, and biodiversity can recover.
Two years after a rat eradication program began using drones on two Galapagos Islands, excited conservations declared them rat-free.
A UK poll revealed that 63% suffer from allergies, but are happy to put up with symptoms to support biodiversity in nature.
Sounds made by humpback whales—including a previously unknown call—have given researchers a glimpse of their lives in the high seas.
Bat Conservation International has rediscovered Hill's horseshoe bat, a bizarre critically endangered 'lost species' not seen in 40 years.
After a century of constant decline, the number of wild tigers has grown by double digits since 2010..
A new species of coral fish was named after President Obama to honor his conservation of Hawaiian waters—the famous campaign logo even appears on the tail.
This surprising piece of good news shows how an integrated approach by governments and environmental groups can save our planet's vanishing biodiversity.
A team of conservationists have uncovered a hidden population of around 200 of the world's rarest Bornean orangutans in Malaysian Borneo. The Sarawak government has pledged protection.
With its natural habitat mostly gone, one of North America's rarest songbirds has found a surprising workaround: It's thriving in the industrial pine plantations of the southeastern United States, reports Nat Geo.
On a remote lake in Madagascar, a fateful discovery of 22 ducks belonging to a variety thought to be extinct, inspired a group of conservationists to mobilize a last ditch effort to save the species, which had been previously been written off. This week, as the Madagascar pochard's only remaining wild population hangs on with just 22 adult birds surviving, the captive breeding program started in 2009 celebrated a huge success with the birth of 18 new babies.
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