A new list of threatened mammals in South Africa, Lesotho and Eswatini shows that 11 more species have edged closer to ...

Around 20 percent of species are threatened with extinction, 11.5 percent are near threatened, according to the latest Mammal Red List by Endangered Wildlife Trust.

You may think you know all there is to know about wolves, but did you know some have a sweet tooth? While most wolf species ...

Four African penguins, who are a critically endangered species, hatched at Mystic Aquarium earlier this month. The penguin chicks hatched in early January and they're the offspring of two first-time ...

Angie Elwin works for an international NGO, World Animal Protection, as the Head of Research, and is a Visiting Research Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University. Delagnon Assou is a Research ...

Krystal Tolley receives funding from the National Research Foundation of South Africa. What happens when a species has not been seen by anyone for decades? Environmentalists think of these as “lost ...

Growing up, I vividly remember reading through nature-related magazines, fascinated by the vast numbers of creatures inhabiting our planet. I spent summers at my grandmother’s West Virginia home ...

While conservation efforts have bolstered the populations of many species considered to be threatened in 2025, many animal and plant species continue to dwindle in number, with some even going extinct ...

What are some of the species we’re seeing in the illegal wildlife trade today? And what are we doing to combat it?