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Dozens of green sea turtles have an unknown disease that causes lesions and open wounds on their shells and flippers.

Troy Staggs found himself in a 47-minute long battle with the huge fish, which measured 4.6 feet and weighed around 55 pounds.

The sawfish – which was caught accidentally in fishing nets off the coast of Karnataka state – was 10 feet long and weighed 550 pounds.

Zoo officials noted that there are fewer than 100 individual Amur leopards left in the wild and are mainly found in the Russian Far East.

It is the first calf to be born into the endangered family for two years, according to the Center for Whale Research.

Natasha Barnes, who helped rescue the animal, said the 9-foot snake was stuck halfway through a fence and unable to escape from the electric shocks.

When trafficked, pangolins are emaciated, completely dehydrated, sometimes they are so weak they can't even roll themselves up.

The last remaining freshwater dolphin on a stretch of the Mekong died after its injuries prevented it from hunting.

The Amboseli Trust for Elephants said both calves, who were born in 2020, had been struggling in recent months.

"She is hope for the species and for humanity," Care for Wild CEO and founder Petronel Nieuwoudt said in a statement.

The birth of the bonobo was announced just ahead of World Bonobo Day, on February 14.

Wildlife officials in Thailand are concerned poachers will target the tiger and have launched a rescue mission to save it.

The dead leader had wounds all over his body as his four former allies ran away with bloody paws, Jeffery Wu, who found the body, said on Instagram.

The frosted flatwoods is now only found in small numbers in Florida and Georgia, with numbers falling by 90 percent in the last 20 years.

Kaja's mother is unable to care for her baby after suffering complications after the birth.

The rhino was left for dead after poachers hacked off his horn, leaving him with a "horrific" wound.

The Greater Spotted Eagle was completely extinct in Western Europe before the rewilding of the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Big cat researcher Tara Pirie told Newsweek that with so few remaining, the loss of any individual will have a "substantial impact" on the species.

There were no upward trends anywhere in country, the report said. The koala is fully extinct in 47 electorates. New South Wales had a 41 percent decline.

2021 marked 20 years since the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas, two historic statues destroyed by the Taliban in 2001.

The video is still circling the internet, despite being removed from YouTube.

The clip shows the man riding on the back of a whale shark, which is an endangered species.

The ornate eagle ray is wideley distributed across the Western Indo-Pacific but is naturally low in numbers and populations are declining.

The homemade explosives have become the leading cause of death for elephants in Sri Lanka, where hundreds of the endangered animals are killed each year.

The shipment was worth nearly $39 million.

Bornean orangutans are critically endangered.

The langur monkey was allegedly bought for $49.

No one wants to kill an animal that near extinction. So how come the popular Endangered Species Act isn't working?

Last month China announced it would allow the use of rhino and tiger products under certain circumstances.

The tiger was believed to have killed at least one person.