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.

By Jeanne Goddard

05 November 63 Views

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

25 April 67 Views

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

28 February 65 Views

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

21 September 65 Views

Police Rescue Giant Sea Turtle From Car's Trunk

After a shootout and high-speed chase (both initiated by the suspects), Costa Rican police found a giant endangered leatherback turtle in the trunk of the car -- still alive.

By Jeanne Goddard

26 July 64 Views

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

By Jeanne Goddard

15 July 68 Views

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

10 July 64 Views

Tibetan Antelope, China Railway, Co-exist in Harmony

The sight this spring of herds of Tibetan antelopes galloping unhindered to breeding grounds at the other side of the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, alleviated concerns that the railway would disrupt their migratory-breeding route.

By Jeanne Goddard

18 July 67 Views

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.

By Jeanne Goddard

20 April 69 Views

New Green Overpass Will Let Wildlife Cross 6 Lanes of Highway

Why did the wildlife cross the interstate? Because it had a lush, landscaped bridge to finally do so.

By Jim Stout

09 June 76 Views