Scottish Wildlife Group Buys Puffin Breeding Ground to Protect Species in Peril
Puffins and other seabirds have a permanent home now that a wildlife group owns their nesting grounds on 300-foot cliffs at the tip of Scotland.
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Adorable Pika Critter Photographed For The First Time in 20 Years
A certain adorable yellow lightning Pokémon may be named after this elusive mountainous creatures called a pika.
1.8 Mil Acres of Beautiful Desert Are Now Protected As Nat'l Monuments
A giant swath of desert half the size of Connecticut has just received permanent protection - creating a migratory superhighway for endangered animals.
Chinese Billionaire Buys 28K Acres of American Forest to Preserve It
China's richest man is spending millions to preserve 28,000 acres of pristine wilderness in the New York Adirondack Mountains.
Polar Bear Victory: Court Upholds Federal Protection of Alaska Habitat (WATCH)
A federal government plan to protect a vast area of the US Arctic as habitat for polar bears has been upheld by an appeals court.
Gardeners Are Creating 'Hedgehog Highways' To Save The Species
If you need a poke in the right direction to save your local hedgehog family, check out what English gardeners are doing to help.
'Christmas Miracle' for Lonely Endangered Rhino
Conservationists in Malaysia airlifted a young Sumatran Rhinoceros — one of the world's most endangered animals — from an area where she had no hope of ever seeing another rhinoceros. After monitoring her isolation since 2007, the Sabah Wildlife Department and Borneo Rhino Alliance flew the female rhino, named Puntung to a forest where she would encounter a potential partner.
Blind Orangutan Receives Cataract Surgery, Sees her Babies for First Time
A formerly blind orangutan has been given the remarkable gift of being able to see her baby twins for the first time after undergoing cataract surgery in the first such operation in Indonesia. Prior to her surgery on Monday afternoon, Gober, a 40-year-old orangutan, had spent at least the last four years blind due to cataracts leading.
Help Save a Rainforest the Size of Wales
An area the size of Wales' is frequently used to measure the rate of forest destruction. Welsh-born comedian Dan Mitchell is bringing people together to help protect an area of rainforest at least this size and is assembling Welsh tribes from all over the country to do it.
Salmon in East Vancouver? Miraculous Reappearance After 80 Years
Chum salmon are spawning again at an urban creek in the heart of East Vancouver. The salmon returned this week to Still Creek, which sits in a ravine surrounded by warehouses and was once thoroughly polluted by urban garbage, sewage and toxic chemicals. Much of the credit goes to people who have painstakingly restored their habitat.
Once Polluted, The Milwaukee River is Now Clean and Valuable
Buoyed by tougher environmental regulations and $5 billion in improvements, the Milwaukee River is cleaner and more valuable economically and ecologically than at any point in the past 100 years.
Richard Branson Plans to Save Lemurs
Using an undeveloped island he owns in the Caribbean, billionaire entrepreneur Richard Branson plans to create the first wild colony of lemurs outside of Africa, saying Monday it's a 'radical idea' to save an endangered primate that is disappearing.
Frog Bonanza: Up to 36 New Frogs Discovered in Tiny Madagascar Forest
In one of the last surviving lowland forests in Madagascar, an area half the size of Manhattan, researchers found 36 frogs which look to be new to science.
Leading Paper Producer to Halt Deforestation in Indonesian
The world's third largest paper company, Asia Pulp and Paper, announced in February an immediate end to all natural forest clearing in its supply chains in Indonesia. The company's pledge to stop making paper from the pulped remains of some of the last virgin rainforests, along with its improved transparency, will help protect endangered Sumatran tigers and orangutans and forested peatlands that store massive amounts of greenhouse gases.
Salmon Numbers Jump at Central Idaho Mountain Lake
More endangered sockeye salmon have made the 900-mile journey from the Pacific Ocean to central Idaho's high-elevation Redfish Lake this year than in the previous six decades.
Healthy Snow Leopard Population Found in Afghanistan by Hidden Cameras
Hidden cameras have revealed the existence of a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan, according to a new study. The wonderful discovery gives hope to the world's most elusive big cat
A Human Corral Leads Baby Turtles to the Ocean
400 volunteers on the Caribbean island of Bonair ensure that each year the endangered loggerhead sea turtles hatching on the beaches make it safely to the waves. In one location two year ago the babies were killed after they walked the wrong way, confused by airport lights. This year a human wall was created to block any light except the bright ocean view, which drew them safely home.
739 Miles of U.S. Beaches Protected for Loggerhead Sea Turtles
After five years of delay, the federal government today finally proposed to more than 739 miles of critical habitat for threatened loggerhead sea turtles on their nesting beaches along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.
Healthy Polar Bear Count Confounds Doomsayers
A new government survey shows the polar bear population in a crucial part of northern Canada is far larger than many scientists thought -- 66 percent higher than earlier estimates -- and might be growing.
Gambler-Turned-Treehugger Spends Fortune To Restore Florida Forests
An American who made his fortune in gambling and real estate has devoted his riches to restoring Florida's longleaf pine forests and teaching kids to love the land.
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