Conservation

"Boats and planes can't go everywhere," one scientist said. Satellites on the other hand...

Years of intensive fieldwork and meticulous museum study have revealed the new species in a case of mistaken identity.

Pando is a unique "forest of one tree" covering some 106 acres of the Fishlake National Forest in Utah.

"Killer whale populations found in the most polluted seas around Japan, Brazil, the U.K. or in the northeast Pacific, the authors report, are tending toward complete collapse."

The giant bird could grow up to 10 feet tall.

Falkland Islands trade minister Teslyn Barkman said the British government must implement a "no penguins left behind" strategy.

Little is known about the world's second largest shark.

They hope the population will grow to 500 in the next 15 years.

Nearly every species of lemur is increasingly threatened by illegal hunting and climate change in Madagascar, the only country where lemurs are naturally found.

Newly released documents show Donald Trump's golf course that opened in Scotland in 2012 "partially destroyed" a nature conservation considered essential to the entire area's ecosystem.

The last surviving male died in March this year.

OR-7 has inspired activists worldwide. His 17 pups have moved across Southern Oregon and Northern California. Unwittingly, he has done more for his species than any other wolf.

In many cultures, eating dolphin is taboo—so fishermen cut up the animals' bodies and use the meat to catch other animals instead.

The Chinese giant salamander is capable of growing up to 5.9 feet in length.

A new Republican piece of legislation will threaten about 58.5 million acres, or 91,000 square miles, of protected forest land according to environmental rights activists.

Large predators hunting in habitats where humans pushed them out are no longer anomalous, according to scientists.

Cataloguing the genetic data of 1.5 million known species will take 10 years, cost approximately $4.7 billion and require the cooperation of scientists, governments and students from around the world.

Is Tony the Tiger helping or hurting real tigers?

The dolphin is still in critical condition.

The species is "heading for catastrophe."

The Danger Islands are cold and treacherous, but dang if they don't have a ton of penguins.

"Esmond was one of conservation's great unsung heroes," Save The Elephants founder Iain Douglas-Hamilton said.

Amur tigers have the personal backing of Vladimir Putin.

If their status changes, protections for the leatherbacks could be reduced.

The alarming problem jeopardizes the world's largest population.

One account said this was the worst animal welfare violation she'd ever seen.

Breeding endangered animals is part of a zoo's "species surival plan."

"This really is a worst-case scenario."

Despite legal protection, North Atlantic right whales keep getting struck accidentally by fishing boats and entangled in gear.

In the Russian Far East, scientists thought they had spotted a tiger flee shelter from the snow, possibly spooked by a much smaller female leopard sleeping inside.